Ad4dcss/Digital Citizenship

Note dana boyd's position that "Most anti-bullying assemblies are ineffective, and the messages of well-meaning advocates tend to fall on deaf ears". Students need to learn empathy, sensitivity and respect, all of which are life skills.

One school district's proposed policy. Note the meaty discussion of the policy points at the end of the article.

Interesting article that discusses AUP. One analogy is how we make kids water safe. You don't make kids water-safe by trying to eliminate swimming pools. You make them safe by teaching them how to swim. Teach about acceptable use and not restriction of technology.

This is a guide to assist school districts in developing, rethinking or revising Internet policies as a consequence of the emergence of web 2.0 and the growing pervasiveness of smart phone use.

A good article regarding some of the steps you should think about when updating your acceptable use policies

Spoof on Little Red Riding Hood. Cute, short safety video for student education to initiate a discussion about friending people you don't really know on Facebook.

This video was great to teach students about sharing information. A good way to start a lesson on internet safety or use in your curriculum. Use a wiki site and make a curriculum where the students can do a self study with some of the videos.

Cyberbullying resources from the Faculty of Education - McGill University

Great article on Digital Citizenship resources to use. 

Lady Gaga gives a speech at the launch of her new charity, the Born This Way Foundation.

Anne Collier: Some take-aways from Lady Gaga's launch and several mos. of working with danah boyd and Harvard's Berkman Center to ground the event and her new foundation/movement in solid research

Youth empowerment effort led by Lady Gaga that addresses bullying as a human rights issue.

NYT account of the launch of the BORN THIS WAY FOUNDATION.

Users of online social network sites such as Facebook are increasingly editing their pages and tightening their privacy settings as they seek to protect their reputations in the age of digital sharing, a Pew Research Center survey said on Friday.

Our Space is a set of curricular materials designed to encourage high school students to reflect on the ethical dimensions of their participation in new media environments. Through role-playing activities and reflective exercises, students are asked to consider the ethical responsibilities of other people, and whether and how they behave ethically themselves online. These issues are raised in relation to five core themes that are highly relevant online: identity, privacy, authorship and ownership, credibility, and participation

A new site by google designed to help students think before they share. 

Highlights from FOSI's (Family Online Safety Institute) 2011 Annual Conference in Washington, DC.