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Elementary Language Arts Blog Your fourth grade class has been blogging for about two months now. They have shared several writing projects on their class blogs, including revisions of some short stories with illustrations. To protect your students’ identities, all students use only their first name and first letter of their last names (e.g., Kayla F., Joseph R.) Your students have commented on each others blogs, and a few parents and other teachers have added comments as well. Your students have become accustomed to this feedback from your internal audience. Today, one of your students, Aaron, asked you about a comment on his blog. Someone complimented him on his story but Aaron doesn’t recognize the name. You review the comment and the link provided, and it appears to be someone from Canada doing educational research. Aaron asks what he should do next. ||
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Advice to Students:
1. We would advise Aaron not to accept the comment. Even though it seems innocent, we don't want to allow something that may not be legitimate. 2. We would take this opportunity to discuss with the class how our digital world allows us to reach outside of our community walls into other countries. It is a great opportunity to retrain the students on the "art" of commenting and how blogging is literally an extension of classroom walls. 3. Revisit a prior lesson on Internet safety with all students and use Aaron's scenario as an example and walk the students through the steps on what to do. Reteach the students how to appropriately be online commentators with outside personnel and commend the student for immediately bringing it to the teacher's attention. 4. We would contact the person that commented to find out what their interest is in the student's blog. If legitimate, respond to their questions and allow for open communication between teacher and person commenting. If not legitimate, discontinue communication immediately. 5. If legitimate, share all communication with students for them to understand what kind of research is being done by the person who has contacted them.