Norms & Responsibilties

It is our responsibility at this time in our relatively  short digital history as educators to inform and teach kids from upper elem. to high school level coursework.  This is an area of  responsibility that I would assume is part of nearly all curriculums as computers are the property of school districts and the parents and general public need to be assured of this.  The monitoring of and the need for blocked sites that are inappropriate is a real necessity.  This is done  in order  to allow the flow of information into our schools be relevant and responsible.   Students have to sort through a lot of garbage even with good websites being made available and that is where it becomes more difficult, unless there is guidance from specialized instruction and/or the broad subjects supplementing  this need in the classrooms.

Mike Ribble made those great comparisons with frontier life in the western United States to our young digital frontier.... keeping our young citizens safe is of upmost importance in this age of freedom to express and reveal. We are socially,  almost not equipped with the emotional/social wherewithal  that this new information freedom has been given to our young minds and there is a great need for this guidance to be in our classrooms.  It is almost as dangerous as driving without driver's education on our roadways!  Digital Citizenship is always going to be a growing subject as more and more social ethics become challenged.