Her reaction was to block all these sites, ban her daughter from the home computer and demand the school district to install content filtering that would prohibit any access to social networks.
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Hey, You! Pay Attention! : - 0 views
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Are students too easily distracted when Internet access is available during lecture periods? The University of Chicago School of Law believes that they are and has implemented measures to block classroom access to the Internet. This story reminds me of the Michael Wesch video, "A Vision of Students Today" at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o
Ideas and Thoughts from an EdTech [Blog Archive] - 0 views
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Exactly the kind of reaction an uneducated parent would have - away from my child!
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social networking should be taught in the homes
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Teachers are our best filters at school
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Hear hear! That is exactly what we need to say loud and clear
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Very interesting post by Dan Shareski on the connections between parents, school districts, students and the internet.
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podcast outlining a parent's fears about non filtering of Facebook at school
Blocking the Future [AASA Article] - 0 views
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Thought-provoking article by Scott McLeod. If a district has decided to figure out ways to facilitate technology usage and empower students and staff, the policies will follow accordingly. Conversely, if a district is determined to treat technology from a fearful or wary standpoint, its policies will reflect that position as well.
Can teachers be students' Facebook friends? - 0 views
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Should teachers become virtual "friends" with their students?
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Opinions are mixed. Opponents fear innocent educators will be branded sexual predators for chatting with students online, while proponents caution against overreacting to a powerful communication tool.
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Most school districts, however, have yet to define the rules of virtual engagement. In the Houston area, many districts block access to social-networking sites on campus computers, but they don't have policies addressing after-hours use between educators and students.
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What seems like an easy question - Will you be my friend? - is not necessarily so for teachers who have joined the Facebook phenomenon. The social-networking Web site, whose popularity has grown from the college crowd down to teens and up to boomers, poses a prickly question for teachers who want to connect with their tech-savvy students yet maintain professional boundaries.
Cyberbullying: Parents, Tech Companies Join Forces to Keep Kids Safe - [FOXNews.com - 1... - 0 views
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Tech companies are releasing new software products that monitor and police kids' Internet use, helping them avoid cyberbullying and letting parents know when it's occurring. Internet monitoring software like CyberBully Alert lets kids notify parents when they're being bullied and takes a screen shot of the computer when a child clicks an alert icon. Programs like CyberPatrol and Spector allow parents to keep tabs on everything kids do on MySpace and Facebook, and keep screen snapshots and a record of what kids write in chat and instant messages.
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Interesting that there is now a program - CyberBully Alert that helps parents protect their children from harrassing behavior.
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Using these programs, parents can also block Web sites and downloads of movies, music or images. Verizon announced in June that it will begin offering similar free security tools for parents. Internet security software maker Symantec has an online tool it will preview to some parents next month that will notify them by text message when a child attempts to access a forbidden site. The tool, code-named Watchdog until its official release, also lets parents control who is on the child’s buddy list. Symantec offers online tips at its Norton Family Resource Center.
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software maker CyberPatrol is releasing a series of Internet videos for parents.
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Tech companies are releasing new software products that monitor and police kids' Internet use, helping them avoid cyberbullying and letting parents know when it's occurring.
10 tips for dealing with game cyberbullies and griefers - 0 views
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Griefers are the Internet equivalent of playground bullies, who find fun in embarrassing and pushing around others.
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Typical griefer behavior includes: taunting others, especially beginners; thwarting fellow teammates in the game; using inappropriate language; cheating; forming roving gangs with other griefers; blocking entryways; luring monsters toward unsuspecting players; or otherwise using the game merely to annoy a convenient target or to harass a particular player who has reacted to their ill will.
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, griefers have some gaming companies concerned about losing subscribers. As a result, many game sites and providers are becoming less tolerant of griefers and are employing new methods to police for them and otherwise limit their impact.
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Known as griefers, snerts, cheese players, twinks, or just plain cyberbullies, chances are one of these ne'er-do-wells has bothered a kid near you at least once while playing online multiplayer video games such as Halo 2, EverQuest, The Sims Online, SOCOM, and Star Wars Galaxies.
A Common Sense Approach to Internet Safety - 0 views
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The folks at Common Sense Media in San Francisco created this video in partnership with Google [Feb 08]. You may find it elsewhere on YouTube but this is the original version and if you're showing it to a parent group at a school where YouTube is blocked, this is a better option. You can click on it and it will enlarge to full screen.
Embrace MySpace: Safe Uses of Social Networking Tools with Students - mrmoses.org the wiki - 0 views
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Our Students are Already Using It
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If We Block It They'll Get Around It
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If We Don't Teach Our Students How to Use It (Appropriately), Who Will?
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A nice collection of links from a wiki - see on Dan Shareski's links.
Pupils 'bypassing school internet security' - 2 views
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BBC article about the dangers of students using proxy servers
November to educators: Let students use online social tools - 3 views
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Blocking access to these tools in classrooms discourages student-centered learning, leading education technology consultant says
Cybersecurity, Safety and Ethics Education Falls Short in U.S. Schools - 4 views
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The survey also found a high reliance on shielding students instead of teaching behaviors for safe and secure Internet use. More than 90% of schools have built up digital defenses, such as filtering and blocking social network sites, to protect children on school networks. While these defenses may help reduce the online risks children face at school, they do not prepare students to act more safely and responsibly when accessing the Internet at home or via mobile devices.
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The study illuminates that there is no cohesive effort to provide young people the education they need to safely and securely navigate the digital age and prepare them as digital citizens and employees.
Schools Left in the Dust on the Social Media Highway - 4 views
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"Our computer use policy is extensive. The frame is this is how you will use the computers when you are here, you can't go on these sites and do these things while you're at school, but when they get out from school and start using computers of their own to do some of these things, then it becomes a little bit more clouded," he said.
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The problem NEOLA faces is a lack of law to base policies on regarding student and staff use of Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, etc. In turn, there are no policies for district administrators to follow, leaving a gray area for disciplinary issues. State legislature was passed regarding bullying, so NEOLA set policies based on that, but in terms of writing policy on technology, direction is what NEOLA is lacking.
Social Media and Digital Citizenship - 2 views
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Content filters, policies and guideline aren’t the final answer. If we are to have our students become true citizens we need to it though teaching.
Tapscott on Changing Pedagogy for the Net Generation - 6 views
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Collaboration is another major hallmark of the Net Generation. However, Tapscott said, we have a tendency to squander or prohibit this strength in schools and workplaces.
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"What do we do with this collaboration-geared generation? We stick them in a cubicle, supervise them like they're Dilbert, and take away their tools (i.e., blocking sites like Facebook and Youtube)." Tapscott calls this creating a generational firewall. "It says, 'We don't get you, we don't understand your tools, and we don't trust you to use them.'"
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We can’t just throw technology in a classroom and expect good things," notes Tapscott. We need to move away from an outdated, broadcast-style of pedagogy (i.e., lecture and drilling) toward student-focused, multimodal learning, where "the teacher's no longer in the transmission of data business; she's in the customizing-learning-experiences-for-students business."
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To reshape pedagogy, Tapscott says that we must consider eight norms for the Net Generation: freedom, customization, scrutiny, integrity, collaboration, entertainment, speed, and innovation.
We Need to Rethink Online Safety [Larry Magid] - 1 views
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The biggest risk is not so much the danger of being harmed but the danger of missed opportunities, especially at school. As we point out in, Online Safety 3.0: Protecting and Empowering Youth, schools too often block access to social media and fail to use it in the educational process. While it's true that there are some online activities that ought not to be done during school hours, banning all social media is the 21st century equivalent of banning all books just because some books are inappropriate for use in school.
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I'm also concerned that Internet safety education is missing a big opportunity to reinforce digital citizenship, media literacy and critical thinking -- skills that will serve for life, on and off the net. We can certainly warn kids about the dangers du jour, but the ultimate solution to keeping kids safe is to instill an internal desire to treat themselves and others respectfully.
Mom Hacks Facebook Account; Teen Sues - 1 views
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It was a mixed blessing that within 24 hours of creating her Facebook page, my kid was harassed unmercifully by a so-called friend — someone she thought was a friend in real life — to the point where she had to unfriend and block other communications from them. I couldn’t have made my case any better about the dangers of social media if I’d paid the obnoxious bully to do it for me.
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A teen has sued his mother for harassment after she logged into his Facebook account and changed content. He also claims she's made "slanderous" comments about him in Facebook as well. It's important to note that this 16-year-old lives with his grandmother and not his mother, and that he appears to be old enough to drive in his home state of Arkansas.
Unmasking the Digital Truth / FrontPage - 2 views
Building Blocks for Digital Citizenship - 16 views
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