Developing Ethical Direction

This article gave a very clear understanding of how children (as well as others) may feel about using technology. Included in this article is a picture of a compass, divided into different categories of how one may feel about using a particular source or when they are coming across something they may not be familiar with. On the example of the compass, the different categories include: Right, I don’t know, It’s an individual choice, What’s the big deal, Wrong, As long as I don’t get caught, Depends on the situation, and I am not sure it’s wrong. When using this ‘internal compass’ while on the internet of other form of technology, this can be a useful tool students use.

The reason for using this compass is that “the complexity of technology and how society chooses to address technology use make it difficult for students to find true north. In this article, the different categories are broken down to go in depth of what students may lead to believe what is true about technology usage.
Above all, this article goes in depth of why it is important to learn good digital citizenship. Just like in elementary school, when we learned what it was to be a good citizen, future students can learn, also, what it means to be a good digital citizen.

This article had a ‘catchy’ way of giving an example of how students may be at different stages as far as their comfort level with technology. There are some students out there that may have no previous knowledge at what is out there on the internet, so what they think may be that they are not sure that what they are doing is wrong. Or, a student may have previous knowledge and education about proper technology usage, but they do things they are not supposed to do anyway.

After reading this article, I feel that this particular passage gave a good, clear understanding about how to really know the different levels of where different students may be at as far as their understanding of how to properly use the internet or other sources of technology.