Candidates practice the ethical principles of their profession, advocate for intellectual freedom and privacy, and promote and model digital citizenship and responsibility. Candidates educate the school community on the ethical use of information and ideas
It is important for a library media specialist to maintain the principles of intellectual freedom and resist all efforts to censor library resources. It is my job to give the best services to everyone in the school by providing useful and organized resources. As I strive for excellence, it is appropriate to always treat everyone with respect, fair judgment, and a right to privacy.
During my ISTC 651, Information Literacy and Access, my partner and I gave a presentation about cyber safety and cyber bullying. I showed them videos and websites on how to be safe when using the Internet. Cyber safety is very important because it helps parents, students and teachers how to be safe, positive and be responsible when getting online. When children get online, anything is accessible and it includes websites that are not appropriate for their age. Cyber bullying is an issue that has been circling around the Internet. It happens when kids bully each other with the use of technology. Examples of cyber bullying are mean text messages or emails, embarrassing photos, videos, websites, or fake profiles in social media, rumors sent via email or posted on social networking sites. Cyber bullying can be prevented or stopped by documenting and reporting immediately the inappropriate behaviors. There are different websites that helps parents, teachers and students to be safe when getting online and prevent cyber bullying. Parents can also use filter software to block websites or find out what their child is doing in the computer. Children who are cyber bullied needed help because many of them were too young to handle this kind of abuse and some of them took their own lives because no one cared and no one listened. It is a very sensitive issue. Cyber bullying can happen anywhere. I know it is my task to educate my students about cyber safety and cyber bullying. I really want to introduce this to my students before the winter break. They need to be informed on how to be safe when using the Internet and be aware that any form of bullying is bad.
In my ISTC 615, Collection Development, I picked five examples of banned books. The books I picked were banned because of racism, sexually offensive passages, immoral and scandalous theme, using of vulgar language, having sexual scenes, sexual assault and abuse. As an elementary school librarian, it is very important that I look at the banned books and make sure that I do not have copies of them in my collection. I have to be aware if there were foul words written in the story before I put them in the shelves. When I purchased my new books this year, I noticed that one of the books have the word “stupid” in the story. I had to remove the book from the shelves and reminded the teacher that this book was really nice to read, but it was inappropriate for children to take them out of the library. A teacher can read it during read-aloud, but she has to skip that word because students or parents might complain.
5.2 Professional Ethics
Candidates practice the ethical principles of their profession, advocate for intellectual freedom and privacy, and promote and model digital citizenship and responsibility. Candidates educate the school community on the ethical use of information and ideasArtifacts
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It is important for a library media specialist to maintain the principles of intellectual freedom and resist all efforts to censor library resources. It is my job to give the best services to everyone in the school by providing useful and organized resources. As I strive for excellence, it is appropriate to always treat everyone with respect, fair judgment, and a right to privacy.During my ISTC 651, Information Literacy and Access, my partner and I gave a presentation about cyber safety and cyber bullying. I showed them videos and websites on how to be safe when using the Internet. Cyber safety is very important because it helps parents, students and teachers how to be safe, positive and be responsible when getting online. When children get online, anything is accessible and it includes websites that are not appropriate for their age. Cyber bullying is an issue that has been circling around the Internet. It happens when kids bully each other with the use of technology. Examples of cyber bullying are mean text messages or emails, embarrassing photos, videos, websites, or fake profiles in social media, rumors sent via email or posted on social networking sites. Cyber bullying can be prevented or stopped by documenting and reporting immediately the inappropriate behaviors. There are different websites that helps parents, teachers and students to be safe when getting online and prevent cyber bullying. Parents can also use filter software to block websites or find out what their child is doing in the computer. Children who are cyber bullied needed help because many of them were too young to handle this kind of abuse and some of them took their own lives because no one cared and no one listened. It is a very sensitive issue. Cyber bullying can happen anywhere. I know it is my task to educate my students about cyber safety and cyber bullying. I really want to introduce this to my students before the winter break. They need to be informed on how to be safe when using the Internet and be aware that any form of bullying is bad.
In my ISTC 615, Collection Development, I picked five examples of banned books. The books I picked were banned because of racism, sexually offensive passages, immoral and scandalous theme, using of vulgar language, having sexual scenes, sexual assault and abuse. As an elementary school librarian, it is very important that I look at the banned books and make sure that I do not have copies of them in my collection. I have to be aware if there were foul words written in the story before I put them in the shelves. When I purchased my new books this year, I noticed that one of the books have the word “stupid” in the story. I had to remove the book from the shelves and reminded the teacher that this book was really nice to read, but it was inappropriate for children to take them out of the library. A teacher can read it during read-aloud, but she has to skip that word because students or parents might complain.