As a dad, I've said those words to my Littles a thousand times. Not one time, though, do I remember one of them stopping to ask me what I meant by that. Instructions are and directions and rule govern so much of what we do every day of our lives, yet I can't help but laugh when I think of how few of those instructions, rules and directions we actually know. When I was taking the copyright quiz I found that a good bit of what I THOUGHT I knew I was totally wrong about. This is why I appreciate a lesson like this one. Although I won't claim to have learned everything there is to know, I at least know where I can access the information that will set me in the right direction. As a teacher, this will be what students will require of me - whether they know toask or not.
For the students that I will engage in the future, the web will be a classroom unto itself. Indeed, most of their world will be virtual. For this reason, it will be vitally important for me and other teachers to be able to help them and their parents navigate it safely while following the rules. Because of my own philosophy about teaching, I see myself focusing on the parents far more than on their students when stressing the importance of web safety and etiquette. Being able to furnish parents with websites like http://www.netsmartz.org/ will give them the tools they need to guide their students safely toward success in my classroom. They will also be able to hold me accountable for making sure that their students are protected within the bounds of any activity, such as blogging, that I might give them to participate in outside of class. Overall, I learned through this assignment that I have quite a bit to learn, but the tools are out there for me to succeed.
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