Homework 2 - Response to Standards

State Standard 2.A. is something that excites and scares me at the same time. I think I need to be brave enough to “Use digital media and environments to communicate and work collaboratively, across the global community, to support individual learning and contribute to the learning of others. To interact and collaborate with peers, experts, or others employing a variety of digital environments and media.”

I feel like an old dog and this is a new trick, to me anyway. Now I have to teach this trick? The most collaborating we’ve done is on a site called ‘Storybird’, where kids can write a story and ask classmates to join in and write it with them or leave comments. It’s safe enough because only they can read and comment with each other in their own class. I’m a little more than protective over my kids, and I’m not sure that even I feel safe out there in the ‘global community’. I have to use it and trust it before I can let my kids out into it. They are much braver about all of this than I am, I’m sure, but what they learn is ultimately my responsibility.