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Vicki Davis

Online Activities Have Offline Consequences - 0 views

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    Great post by Alfred Thompson, "the" microsoft education blogger. I think he hits the nail on the head with this one. Great post!
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    Great post about how online activities should have offline consequences by Alfred Thompson.
Anne Bubnic

Cyberbullying Defined in H.R. 2163 - 0 views

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    Illustrating how important this threat has become, Rep. Linda Sanchez (D-Calif.) and Rep. Kenny Hulshof (R-Mo.) proposed a federal law that would criminalize acts of so-called cyberbullying. In this blog, two national security advisors propose to take it further so that on-line masquerading is also defined and considered. They would also like to see H.R. 2163 increase the penalities when a cyberbully uses a false identity or steals another person's identity when bullying a victim.
Judy Echeandia

The Wireless Foundation - 0 views

  • The Wireless Foundation has been working since 2005 to educate kids as well as their parents and teachers about the safe and responsible use of cellular phones through the Get Wise About Wireless program. 
  • The resources below can help you to keep your children safe online, such as a parent-child agreement on responsible and acceptable use of a wireless device, tools your carrier may have available to keep your family safe online, as well as other useful links. 
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    Wireless online safety tips and resources are offered for parents.
Anne Bubnic

NECC highlights tech's 'transformative' power - 0 views

  • Become powerful advocates for change. Regardless of who inhabits the White House next year, educational technology must play a more prominent role in our national education policy, Davis said--and educators should do everything they can to ensure that it does.
  • Share your knowledge and your passion. Help others take steps to ensure their growth as teachers, Davis said--so they can help students grow as learners. 3. Showcase your work, and students' work, in innovative ways. Invite parents and community leaders into your schools, Davis said--or take students' projects to them with the help of podcasts and other technologies.
  • Dream big. Have high expectations for your students, Davis said, because the possibilities that educational technology offers are "endless." 5. Use all of the resources available to you as you try to effect change. These include ISTE's many online resources, such as the group's National Educational Technology Standards and its research-based reports.
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    2008 National Educational Computing Conference also touts collaboration as a key to 21st-century learning
Anne Bubnic

The Road to Cybersafety - 0 views

  • Carrill is part of the Platte County Sheriff’s Office. He also leads the Western Missouri Cyber Crimes Task Force. One of his primary missions is to track down and arrest online predators who trade in child pornography.And all these cameras only make his job more challenging. About 40 percent of the nation’s minors have access to Webcams, Carrill explained, devices for uploading live video to the Internet. About 65 percent of all children have access to cell phone cameras.
  • erhaps the biggest issue is that fact that kids don’t understand that when a picture is posted online, it’s nearly impossible to remove.“Once that image is taken, it’s out there forever,” Shehan said. “The No. 1 issue that we’ve seen with Webcams is teenagers self-producing pornography.”
  • All we can tell them is, ‘I’m sorry,’” Carrill said. “The minute the camera clicks, you no longer own that image. It has the potential to harm that person years from now.”A Webcam placed in a child’s bedroom is another bad combination, according to Shehan and Carrill. Sexual predators search for kids who use Webcams in the privacy of their own rooms, then lure or blackmail the child into providing pictures of themselves.“We see cases time after time of children who take pictures, send them to a predator and get a pornographic collage back that the predator uses to blackmail the child into providing more images,” Shehan said.
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  • . About 40 percent of the nation’s minors have access to Webcams, Carrill explained, devices for uploading live video to the Internet. About 65 percent of all children have access to cell phone cameras.Carrill’s team recently started a new operation to search image-trading Web sites for known child pornography in Missouri. The results were frightening, he said. More than 6,000 images were found in the state; about 700 of those pictures were downloaded in the Kansas City area.Between sexual predators who fish for images and immature decisions by kids with cameras, more children are either having their images posted online or being exposed to pornography, according to a 2006 report by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
  • In the end, the best tool to defeat child pornography is parent education, according to both Shehan and Carrill. More than anything, kids need to know they can trust their parents.“It’s through that open line of communication between the parent and child that they can work through or prevent bad situations,” Carrill said.
  • All parents should follow a few basic rules when it comes to cyber safety, according to experts:- Keep computers in common areas of the home.- Monitor Internet use by children.- Enable privacy protection software.- Turn Webcams off or protect them with a password.- Track what images are being uploaded by children in the household.- Talk to children about what is appropriate.
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    Webcams, cell phone cameras being put to troubling use, experts say. People are taking pictures, lots of them, and then uploading them as permanent displays in the Internet collection.
Anne Bubnic

University of Alabama and Hoover Schools Embrace Second Life - 0 views

  • Several local teachers and professors see Second Life as a tremendous opportunity. There are educational islands in Second Life where teachers can go to digitally swap ideas, conduct research or attend real life conferences.
  • However, a teacher can take students on a virtual field trip in Second Life - using his or her own login - to places like the Alamo or the Louvre Museum, both of which have been impressively recreated in Second Life.
  • The University of Alabama is using Second Life too. In fact, Professor Rick Houser, Chairman of Educational Studies at the Capstone, is working on building an entire virtual University of Alabama campus in Second Life.
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  • But how healthy is it for kids, especially younger ones, to be spending time in a virtual world when there’s a real world they need to learn to navigate? What about on-line predators? Second Life does not verify the age a user enters.
  • These students are growing up as digital natives. They want to use this, they want to be engaged in these types of technologies and it’s important for us to facilitate that learning,” she says.  Brandt also wants to teach students the dangers they need to be aware of when using Second Life or any type of social networking website. She calls it “good digital citizenship”.
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    This week, the Hoover Board of Education is holding a technology training seminar to help teachers get up to speed for the new school year. On the agenda - a powerful and somewhat controversial website called "Second Life".
Anne Bubnic

Forest Ridge Digital Citizenship Wiki [K-8] - 0 views

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    K-8 Digital Citizenship Wikifrom Forest Ridge District 142 in Oak Ridge, Illinois. Includes links to videos and cybersafety tips.
Anne Bubnic

Cybersafety in a Web 2.0 World [pdf] - 0 views

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    Cybersafety in a Web 2.0 World: What Parents & Policymakers Need To Know [PDF]

    Interview with the Honorable Melissa Bean, Larry Magid, Nancy Willard and Sharon Miller Cindrich.
Anne Bubnic

Leadership, Education & Etiquette - On or Offline [LEO] - 0 views

  • They are now developing a Web site to help educate their peers on the same issues and plan to visit elementary and middle school students this year to pass on Internet safety messages. Students also created individual blogs this week. "We're trying to develop youth to be leaders in the city and the state and the nation and the world. With the Internet, it's not just local," said Akua Goodrich, the program's director who helped found the Power Unit for Motivating Youth, an after-school and mentoring program in the city. "We have to prepare them to be safe and help spread the message."
  • "When you're a kid, you don't want to listen to an adult who doesn't know what you're going through," she said. "You're much more open to listen to your peers talk to you. It's more interesting."
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    The Leadership, Education and Etiquette - On and Offline, or [Leo ] Student Leadership Training Project ended Friday with a debriefing and motivational words by the program's adult leaders. It wrapped up four days of training in which the 26 teens learned about cyber safety and social networking issues as well as peer-to-peer marketing and career preparations.
Anne Bubnic

Three in four parents spy on children online - 0 views

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    Children as young as eight are being attracted to social networking sites such as Facebook, Myspace and Bebo, with a new study revealing more than 750,000 between the ages of 8 and 12 use one, despite minimum age restrictions of 13 or 14. Parents have admitted to spying on their children online in an attempt to safeguard them from the dangers of social networking websites.
Anne Bubnic

BrainPOP | Digital Citizenship - 8 views

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    Brainpop's new unit on Digital Citizenship covers topics like computer viruses, cyberbullying, blogs, copyright, digital etiquette, privacy, online safety, plagiarism, and social networking in their familiar format with Tim & Moby. And best off, it's all free.
Anne Bubnic

Bloom's Taxonomy: Cybersafety - 8 views

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    The hierarchy of Bloom's Taxonomy is the widely accepted framework used by teachers to guide their students through progressive levels of complexity in the cognitive learning process. Here is Bloom's applied to Cybersafety activities.
Pat Hensley

Internet Safety With Garfield - 8 views

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    Site URL for Internet Safety with Professor Garfield: http://www.infinitelearninglab.org/
Anne Bubnic

Breakthrough Learning in a Digital Age - Literacy 2.0 - 8 views

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    Innovative examples of how technology can help kids learn to read, learn to write, learn to think and better determine what's worth reading and what's not, what's worth writing and what's not.
Anne Bubnic

Teaching Parents Digital Citizenship at Katy ISD - 8 views

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    This Texas school district has decided that the best way to help their students learn how to use online resources more responsibly is to educate parents as well. Evening technology showcases provide a launch pad.
Anne Bubnic

Facebook Privacy Updated May, 2010 - 8 views

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    Larry Magid gives us an update on how to adjust our Facebook privacy settings. Note: defaults are public. You'll need to reviews all of your settings.
Steven Knight

The Door That's Not Locked - 8 views

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    The web is a wonderful place, if you understand the dangers. While the Internet is an open door to a world of great information, communication and entertainment, it can also be a direct passageway to danger. The Canadian Centre is committed to helping parents, teachers, and anyone else who would like to better understand the good, bad, and ugly about the web. We're here to help keep kids safe while exploring and enjoying The Door that's not Locked. This website has been created to provide you with a one-stop-shop on all things related to Internet safety.
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    All Web. No Net.
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    This is a great site. No nonsense advice. I really like how it is broken down in age groups, which helps you to understand how children become more sophisticated in their Internet use. Thanks Steve for sharing it!
Anne Bubnic

Technology Honor Code - 8 views

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    Technology Honor Code from Castilleja Independent School for Girls (Palo Alto, CA).
Anne Bubnic

Digital Citizenship Includes Rights as Well as Responsibilities - 8 views

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    Larry Magid discusses the rights of a child and freedom of expression as components of digital citizenship.
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