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My EDLD 5315 Discussion Post On Action Research As I went through the videos and readings I was able to learn about action research. The one area that I came across that sets it different than traditional research to me is reflection. In action research it allows the teacher a process of making improvements through a 4 phase and 9 step process. It allows the teacher to identify the problem and what they want to work on improving in the classroom. It continues by allowing them to reflect on that process and revise it even more. I feel that I have grown as an educator during my master program because of reflection. I feel I have learned and put into practice reflection on every aspect of my classroom and instruction. This is ultimately has helped me become a better educator and trying new areas that I may have normally not tried. I feel this new concept of action research goes together with this reflection process, which will result in improving my practice as an educat

Digital Citizenship Reflection Mitchell Madden Lamar University – EDLD5316             As I went through the readings for the week, discussions, videos and assignments I noticed there was way more to digital citizenship then I initially thought. I also had a feeling that we have more work to do as a global community on teaching students and all digital citizens on proper digital citizenship. Ribble defines digital citizenship as, “the norms of appropriate, responsible behavior with regard to technology use” (Ribble, 2015). My actual definition for digital citizenship is the safe, proper, legal, and ethical behavior that one should demonstrate in the digital world. All definitions that I came across had one theme in common, which was proper behavior in the digital world.             I continued my learning of what it digital citizenship means and came across the nine elements of digital citizenship. Those nine elements were broken up into three categories and three princ