I do find that there is more work to do in my local educational environment to promote the use of social media as a learning tool. Educators have not been sold yet on the value of using social media to network and support new ideas in their practice. This will be discussed in the web guide that I develop, as I see it as a gap in the system I work in. Educators don’t have a professional digital footprint, they use social media for personal purposes but not professional. I think once educators understand what it means to be a responsible digital citizen, they will expand their use of social media into their professional practice.

I was excited to review the technology policies and procedures for the school board I work for. The policies and procedures were recently updated in February 2021 to reflect the new learning and teaching environment since remote learning started in April 2020. There are two areas of digital citizenship I noticed that were not reflected in the policies and procedures, promoting the positive aspects of digital citizenship – creating a positive digital footprint and collaborating through professional learning networks. The current governance documents seem to be a list of thou shalt not…..rather than foster the idea of being positive contributors to the digital learning environment. I look forward to promoting these ideas through the digital and interactive web guide I create for assessment 1.