| This course will investigate the skills needed to safely and successfully engage in an online world. Students will research digital citizenship skills designed to help learners appropriately participate as online community members. Participants will evaluate media and digital literacy skills that help learners assess the validity of information available online. The course will investigate policies that keep people and information safe. Students will also examine ethical considerations of artificial intelligence, including issues of bias, privacy, and equitable access, to promote responsible and informed decision-making in educational settings. Time will be spent analyzing aspects of academic integrity as well as ethical and professional behaviors necessary for consuming and producing information in a global society. Through Virtual Field Experiences, candidates are exposed to various online learning situations and school settings. This course also serves as the capstone course, which requires the candidate to demonstrate how they have synthesized and applied the program instruction in the real-world context. Prerequisite: EDU 842 or 847. 3 credits. |