The early years are going to be the base of the future students that are going to be formed to use their own criteria to narrow the information they receive from all the Internet sources.
Teacher's thinking out loud when looking for information in the web, could be useful to show kids that we do not go by the first messages a searching engines launches. Teaching reading stategies like: synthetizing information and making conclusions are going to be strong processes a teacher should stress by modeling in the classroom and parents at home.
Expressing an opinion is also another skill that I believe, is going to be stressed when teaching kids to use technology, since their mind is going to be exposed to blogging and sharing information with people with different opinions which gives the opportunity to encourage civility.
Strong thinkers we will create for the following years to come, since the media will be there to attract attention for different purposes but also great resources are out there to increase the use of neurons.Parent involvement is imperative to educate in a different way kids that enter into a new era of information.
My way to teach the digital citizenship starts the day students touch one the IPOD's, PC's or any other technology by sharing that the purpose of involving tech. in learning is to maximize the use of time, enhance the learning per student and to evolve the way we communicate with others with the purpose of using information to be used for the common good.This message is something to be repeated and modeled in different ways by different people, therefore, each memeber of the the education community will take a big piece to form the big picture.
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