Thoughts on being Digitally Responsible
I wrote a post Digital Natives Need Infrastructure last spring about a visit I made to our first Digital Immersion classroom at Riverside Secondary school. That visit and subsequent workshops with principals and IT staff on Digital Tools and Social Responsibility spawned a priority for our District to review and revise our procedures. We need to ensure they are current and able to guide our students and employees in being responsible in their use of digital tools, services, and content. The need for increased bandwidth is another top priority but without digitally responsible use, bandwidth on its own is not the solution to an overused network. While writing Living and Learning Responsibly in the Digital World and then Privacy, Living and Learning Digitally , I reflected on some examples of students not being digitally responsible. What digital “foot print” are students leaving? (photo courtesy of http://www.flickr.com/photos/langwitches/5141256792...