Wednesday, December 8, 2021

How To Be A Digital Citizen

Nowadays, internet has become a part of our daily lives. We use internet for many things: research, learning, connecting with family and friends, shopping, etc... 


 

We have responsibility to educate young internet users on how to create a safe online spaces. some tips to teach how to be a good "digital citizen" are:

 - Encourage critical thinking skills: teach students to think about what they do and how they interact with others online.

- Always be nice and encourage others to be nice too: students need to practice treating each other with the same respect online as they do in person. we should remind them to think twice before posting or saying anything online.

- Monitoring the net effect of your activity online.

- Protecting someone from cyberbullying or protecting accounts info with secure passwords.

 - Citing the source of the original source of the information.

- Supporting others by offering useful feedback, encouraging them, or sharing work they're proud of, etc... 


Tools Can Be Used In Online Assessment

         Online teaching is a method or process of educating others using the internet. to test the knowledge or learning of the learners or to identify their strength and weaknesses we need an assessment tools. Some of wide assessment tools are:

  1. GOOGLE FORMS: The most easiest application to use is google form because it's quick and simple to create an automatically grade quizzes. Teachers can create multiple- choice quizzes or short- answer quizzes or make an easy answer key for each question.
  2. MENTIMETER: Teachers can create listening skills assessments, icebreaker, create quizzes and tests, manage student expectations and engage students in classroom. Mentimeter gives everyone a voice.
  3. POLL EVERYWHERE: With Poll Everywhere, teachers could make quizzes and take attendance. it integrates with google applications like google slides. Teachers can get real- time feedback in their question slides without calling on specific individual.


        These tools allow for easy quiz creation. they allow flexibility for written                     questions and provide key features like instant grading.

Learning Styles

There are four learning styles based on different ways students perceive information. For some, it is easier to visualize information, for o...