Digital Natives: Teens, Tweens, & Digital Media: Ethics for Teaching in a Digital Age

There’s a lively discussion going on over at the Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Advanced Collaboratory (HASTAC), where educators and scholars are discussing ethics for teaching in a digital age.

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Filed by Sarah J.

A student-run online forum led by the HASTAC scholars encourages university students and professors to weigh in on such questions as: “If you’ve taught a class with a digital component, what tips can you offer? What lessons did you learn the hard way?” or “For those of you taking classes, what are the ways in which your professors are successfully using technology? How has that changed your conception of learning and your own engagement with the material? What could be done better?” Join the discussion here.

Tools aren’t teachers, they aren’t students, and they aren’t magic.

Additionally, in an effort that began at a teacher’s meeting of the East Asia Regional Council of Schools last month, the folks at HASTAC are asking for input from K-12 teachers, administrators, and others on this collaborative Google doc. You can view and add input to the document, “The Ethics and Responsibilities of the 21st Century Classroom: A Collaborative Guide to Best Digital Learning Practices for K-12 Teachers and Administrators,” here. The document begins with this gem in the preamble: “Tools aren’t teachers, they aren’t students, and they aren’t magic.”

Cathy Davidson has additional background on these efforts in several posts at DMLCentral: The Ethics and Responsibilities of the 21st Century Classroom: Part I and A Collaborative Guide to Best Digital Learning Practices for K-12. Davidson is the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Duke University and co-founder at HASTAC. Spotlight interviewed Davidson last year about her new book “Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn.”