Blocking the Future [AASA] - 1 views
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In this environment, school district leaders have a critical choice to make: Will their schools pro-actively model and teach the safe and appropriate use of these digital tools or will they reactively block them out and leave students and families to fend for themselves?
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o better way to highlight organizational unimportance than to block out the tools that are transforming the rest of society.
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the specific policies are much less important than the general mindset of the school district.
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[May 2008] AASA article gives examples of school organizations that are desperately and inappropriately blocking the future and Scott McLeod pleads, "Please don't block the future." Please don't relegate your students, particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds, to second-class status in the new economy because you left it to them and their families to figure out on their own what it means to be digital, global citizens. Ask AASA and its state affiliates to provide more technology leadership-related professional development opportunities. And let us know how we can help.
The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor & Privacy on the Internet - 0 views
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Teeming with chatrooms, online discussion groups, and blogs, the Internet offers previously unimagined opportunities for personal expression and communication. But there's a dark side to the story. A trail of information fragments about us is forever preserved on the Internet, instantly available in a Google search. A permanent chronicle of our private lives-often of dubious reliability and sometimes totally false-will follow us wherever we go, accessible to friends, strangers, dates, employers, neighbors, relatives, and anyone else who cares to look.
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John Paulfrey (Berkman Center) provides a review of the book in his blog, here.
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John Palfrey (Berkman Center) provides a review of the book on his blog, here.
Jennifer Lawrence at Premiere of "X-Men: Days Of Future Past" in New York - PhotoFunMasti - 0 views
NETGENED Project 2010 - 3 views
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Award winning author, Don Tapscott, and award winning global collaborators Julie Lindsay and Vicki Davis are excited to announce the 2010 NetGenEd Project, a global collaboration to envision the future of education and social action by inspiring today's students to study leading technology trends and create their vision for the future. The project involves over 300 students from 6 countres and 15 classrooms.
Futurist Speaker - 1 views
10 Unanswerable Questions that Neither Science nor Religion can Answer - Futurist Speaker - 2 views
MEP Training - Employment : Education - 0 views
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Aghora Design Academy is a training Institute run by Aghora Infrastructure Pvt. Ltd.The academy was entrusted with the responsibility of developing the new generation of technical manpower that can spearhead the industrial development of the state.Aghora Design Academy has been envisaged to be the grooming ground for the future engineers ,designers and researcers.
YouTube - Future of Screen Technology - 2 views
CyberBully Alert Develops Innovative Method for Combating Growing Problem of Online Cyb... - 0 views
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CyberBully Alert is a web-based solution that simplifies the notification and documentation of cyberbullying. It allows children to instantly send alerts to their parents regarding potentially harmful online conversations and interactions the moment the bullying occurs. With a click of the mouse, parents are notified and the unwanted behavior is stored for future use with school officials, other parents or law enforcement authorities.
Literacy Debate: Online, R U Really Reading? - 0 views
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hildren like Nadia lie at the heart of a passionate debate about just what it means to read in the digital age. The discussion is playing out among educational policy makers and reading experts around the world, and within groups like the National Council of Teachers of English and the International Reading Association.
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As teenagers’ scores on standardized reading tests have declined or stagnated, some argue that the hours spent prowling the Internet are the enemy of reading — diminishing literacy, wrecking attention spans and destroying a precious common culture that exists only through the reading of books. But others say the Internet has created a new kind of reading, one that schools and society should not discount. The Web inspires a teenager like Nadia, who might otherwise spend most of her leisure time watching television, to read and write.
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n fact, some literacy experts say that online reading skills will help children fare better when they begin looking for digital-age jobs.
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2007 Junior Achievement/Deloitte Teen Ethics Survey | - 0 views
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In alarming numbers, teenagers who think they are fully prepared to make ethical decisions are also driven by the pursuit of success to cheat, by time constraints to plagiarize, and by vengeance to inflict physical violence. This paints a disturbing picture for employers who will be relying on this age group to fill the pipeline in their future workforces. The fifth annual JA/Deloitte Teen Ethics Survey found that while most teens (71 percent) feel fully prepared to make ethical decisions in the workplace, nearly 40 percent of those young people believe that lying, cheating, plagiarizing, and violence are sometimes necessary to succeed in school. Download the attached Executive Summary and survey results documents to learn more.
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Contentbank | Why Does Technology Matter For Youth? - 0 views
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"Community Technology Programs Deliver Opportunities to Youth" is an 8:46 minute video in which young people help tell the story of why access to quality technology and training matters to their future. The video covers health improvement, educational achievement, workforce training and civic engagement of young people through the use of information and communications technology.
YouTube lawsuit tests copyright law - 0 views
Young Minds, Fast Times: The Twenty-First-Century Digital Learner - 0 views
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How tech-obsessed iKids would improve our schools. One of the strangest things in this age of young people's empowerment is how little input our students have into their own education and its future. Kids who out of school control large sums of money and have huge choices on how they spend it have almost no choices at all about how they are educated -- they are, for the most part, just herded into classrooms and told what to do and when to do it.
MindOH!: Thinking It Through [Cyberbullying Worksheets] - 0 views
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MindOH! offers downloadable "Thinking It Through" worksheets to provide students with opportunities to reflect on the poor choices they may be making with regard to bullying, teasing or harassing others. Kids are given the opportunity to assess their own beliefs and attitudes, consider past experiences, and explore ways of making smarter choices in the future.
Telling Their Stories: Oral History Archives Project - 0 views
The Facts about Online Sex Abuse and Schools - 0 views
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We can never eliminate all risk; but there are ways to maximize our students' safety while using these incredibly powerful tools. Each tool needs to be analyzed individually to ascertain its benefits and the specific risks it might present. From there, thoughtful people can find solutions to the student safety issues that may arise.\nAs educational leaders we need \nto be safety conscious. We need to be prudent, reasonable; but we won't live in \nfear and we won't act from fear.\nIt is by opening doors, not closing \nthem that we create new possibilities for our children and new futures for \nourselves.
This film takes a deeper look at how the three superpowers of the 21st Century - China, India and the United States - are preparing their students for the future. As we follow two students - a boy and a girl - from each of these countries, we compose a global snapshot of education, from the viewpoint of kids preparing for their future.
\n\nThe complete DVD is available for order on this web site. The web site also offers a preview version.