Technology Integration and Digital Citizenship
What Technology Integration and Digital Citizenship covers
This domain tests how you integrate technology into learning and teach safe, ethical, equitable use. It includes frameworks, digital citizenship, privacy law, copyright, accessibility, and emerging tools such as AI.
Core rules and concepts
- Integration frameworks: SAMR (Substitution, Augmentation, Modification, Redefinition) and TPACK (technological, pedagogical, content knowledge). Use technology to transform learning, not to digitize worksheets.
- ISTE Standards for Students: Empowered Learner, Digital Citizen, Knowledge Constructor, Innovative Designer, Computational Thinker, Creative Communicator, Global Collaborator. Teachers and librarians model these.
- Digital citizenship: digital footprint, cyberbullying, media balance, passwords and phishing, privacy, and information literacy. Common Sense Education and Ribble's nine elements are common frameworks.
- Legal: CIPA requires filtering and an internet safety policy for E-rate; COPPA requires verifiable parental consent for data from children under 13; FERPA protects education records; ADA/Section 508 and WCAG govern accessibility. Check district data privacy agreements before using apps.
- Copyright: fair use has four factors (purpose, nature, amount, effect); TEACH Act applies to distance learning; public domain and Creative Commons licenses (CC BY, SA, NC, ND) set reuse terms; OER permits retain, reuse, revise, remix, redistribute.
- AI: teach disclosure, verification, bias, and privacy; follow district policy; do not paste student data into unapproved tools.
- Curation and makerspaces: evaluate tools for cost, privacy, accessibility, standards fit, and longevity; design makerspaces for equity and computational thinking.
Worked example
A teacher wants a free quiz app that requires student names and birthdays. Reasoning: check the district approved-tool list and privacy agreement; COPPA applies if users are under 13, and FERPA may apply if data becomes an education record. Test accessibility and whether the free tier sells data. If not approved, offer a district-approved alternative or collect no personal data. Document the decision.
Traps that cost marks
- Assuming 'free' means safe or compliant.
- Treating CIPA as only a filter; it also requires policy and education.
- Sharing student work or data without checking FERPA.
- Using copyrighted images because they are online.
- Teaching digital citizenship as a one-time assembly.