Category: EDUC 639

Educators have a responsibility that goes beyond teaching content. We are helping shape students into people who understand that their knowledge, choices, technology use, and future careers affect others. From a biblical worldview, social responsibility begins with loving God and loving our neighbor. Jesus teaches that the second greatest commandment is to “love your neighbor…

Student data privacy has become one of the most important issues in modern education. Schools now collect large amounts of information through learning management systems, assessment platforms, attendance tools, behavior tracking systems, artificial intelligence applications, and parent portals. This data can help teachers understand student progress and provide better support, but it also creates serious…

Digital citizenship no longer an elective in education—it is a core competency that students must develop to function responsibly in a technology-driven world, and avoid many of its pitfalls. As digital tools continue to shape communication, learning, and civic engagement, educators have become essential for preparing students to navigate these environments ethically and effectively. Digital…

Digital rights are becoming foundational to modern education, especially as learning increasingly depends on online platforms, digital content, and global collaboration. At their core, digital rights ensure that learners and educators can access, create, and share information freely and safely. Without these protections—such as privacy, access to information, and freedom of expression—education risks becoming restricted,…

Teaching media fluency has become essential in modern education due to the proliferation of phones, computers, streaming platforms, and social media, and the access it gives to information of varying accuracy and agenda. Media fluency goes beyond simply using technology; it includes the ability to locate reliable information, evaluate sources, recognize biases in those sources,…

Here’s my video on Educational Websites. I just recently converted from having a single Windows Machine to going all-Linux for myself (my laptop has been Linux for quite a while).I used OBS Studio to make my video, OpenOffice Impress for my presentation, and compared to using Adobe Premiere, I’m quite happy with how it turned…

This is something that I can both agree and disagree with, from experience, and from a scholarly understanding. First, on the experience portion. As someone who has served in the Navy for two decades, having a little knowledge about something can be a double-edged sword. The first edge of the sword is that knowing a…

Teaching has never been just about delivering content, and it is becoming increasingly clear that it never will be again. If education were only about memorizing facts, then classrooms could easily be replaced with search engines and instructional videos. Instead, the role of the educator continues to expand into something far more complex and far…