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Steve Ransom

Why Teaching Digital Citizenship Doesn't Work | Looking Up - 0 views

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  • Students who behave inappropriately in digital spaces misinterpret the digital space as private, when it is, of course, public. This misunderstanding leads students to believe that the regular rules of public behavior don’t apply in digital space, and so they behave in ways online that they never would in public. The fundamental error is in thinking that digital spaces are different, with different rules from the real world. They aren’t.
  • They don’t need a new set of rules, just to apply the rules they already know to their digital behavior.
  • Students don’t need more rules; they just need to apply the ones they’ve already got. The same ones they learned in kindergarten.
Steve Ransom

Challenging 'Internet safety' as a subject to be taught - NetFamilyNews.org |... - 0 views

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  • The Internet is embedded in and encompasses virtually all of human life, positive, negative and neutral.
  • All that happens online is much more symptomatic (sometimes an early warning system) than a cause of social problems that we’ve been working on addressing since long before we had the Internet.
  • Internet safety education teaches kids to hide negative or deviant behavior rather than correct it. Do you see a problem with that? I do.
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  • What needs to be taught is skills, not just information, and certainly not all the inaccurate information so much “Internet safety education” has disseminated over nearly two decades.
  • “properties” (“persistence,” “searchability,” “replicability,” and “scalability”) and “dynamics” (“invisible audiences,” “collapsed contexts,” and “the blurring of public and private”) – and now some of those, e.g., “persistence,” are changing with the arrival of “ephemeral,” or disappearing, digital media in services
  • media is both social and digital.
  • full, healthy participation in participatory media, culture and society.
  • what protects children online is what protects them offline.
  • life skills, literacies and safeguards that are both internal – respect for self and others, resilience, empathy, and a strong inner guidance system (sometimes called a moral compass) – and external, such as good modeling, parenting and teaching by caring adults, peer mentoring, instruction in digital and media literacy, social-emotional learning, protective technology used thoughtfully, family and school rules, well-designed digital environments, and well-established laws against discrimination, sexual harassment, bullying, and crime.
  • teach the skills of today’s very social digital media: digital literacy, media literacy and social literacy, which together address both media-specific risk reduction and proficiency in participatory media use.
  • ACCESS
  • ANALYZE
  • CREATE
  • REFLECT
  • “ACT:
  • These are the competencies that students need to navigate participatory media and culture.
  • providing access and opportunities to analyze, create, reflect and act as much with digital media as with older media right in core academic classes, schools are affording them the skills, community, and self-actualization that increase safety (resilience) as well as efficacy in and out of media. This is the real “Internet safety [or competency]” that needs to be taught in schools.
  • Steve Ransom on 10 Jun 14
     
    We need to get this and push back against the flawed Internet Safety/Danger narrative if we are truly going to prepare students as healthy and wise citizens. "what protects children online is what protects them offline."
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  • Steve Ransom on 18 Feb 14
     
    Great idea to help kids express themselves appropriately as they prepare to transition to the online/digital world that has few safety nets.
Steve Ransom

The Power of Educational Technology: A Design Thinking approach to Digital Citizenship - 1 views

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  • Steve Ransom on 15 Nov 13
     
    A great example of keeping kids involved in the process of learning and keeping learning relevant... even with the topic of digital citizenship and more specifically, cyberbullying. By @lizbdavis
Steve Ransom

Net safety's '3 alarmist assumptions': Researcher - NetFamilyNews.org | NetFamilyNews.org - 0 views

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  • The problems that turn up in the digital environment are not unique to it but rather “extensions of social interactions or media consumption problems that cut across environments” and are better understood in the context of a child’s life as a whole. He points to “several strands of research” that show support for this counter hypothesis and poses this question for further investigation: “Should we define problems as being unique to a technology, like cyber-bullying or cyber-stalking?”
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      Digitally dualistic perspective critique
  • most ISE is not evidence-based and “not based on established effectiveness principles
  • Steve Ransom on 10 Jun 14
     
    This series of posts (follow the links) is really worth your time. The current fear and danger narrative impedes adults and leaders from really empowering kids in a new, digitally-augmented reality.
Steve Ransom

Digital Literacy | Common Craft - 0 views

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  • Steve Ransom on 08 Jan 14
     
    Digital Literacy, explained by Common Craft.
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Multitasking while studying: Divided attention and technological gadgets impair learnin... - 0 views

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  • It’s multitasking while learning that has the biggest potential downside
  • 80 percent of college students admit to texting during class; 15 percent say they send 11 or more texts in a single class period.
  • Texting, emailing, and posting on Facebook and other social media sites are by far the most common digital activities students undertake while learnin
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  • “Young people have a wildly inflated idea of how many things they can attend to at once
  • “Under most conditions, the brain simply cannot do two complex tasks at the same time. It can happen only when the two tasks are both very simple and when they don’t compete with each other for the same mental resources.
  • They may like to do it, they may even be addicted to it, but there’s no getting around the fact that it’s far better to focus on one task from start to finish.”
  • the assignment takes longer to complete
  • The moment of encoding is what matters most for retention
  • memory of what they’re working on will be impaired if their attention is divided
  • This ability to resist the lure of technology can be consciously cultivated,
  • “even if distraction does not decrease the overall level of learning, it can result in the acquisition of knowledge that can be applied less flexibly in new situations.”
  • leads to more mistakes
  • texting and using Facebook—in class and while doing homework—were negatively correlated with college students’ GPAs.
  • “There’s a definite possibility that we are raising a generation that is learning more shallowly than young people in the past,” he says. “The depth of their processing of information is considerably less, because of all the distractions available to them as they learn.”
  • academic and even professional achievement may depend on the ability to ignore digital temptations while learning
  • kids who were better able to delay gratification not only achieved higher grades and test scores but were also more likely to succeed in school and their careers.
  • hose who were interrupted more often scored worse on a test of the lecture’s content; more interestingly, those who responded to the experimenters’ texts right away scored significantly worse than those participants who waited to reply until the lecture was over.
  • students who used Facebook during the 15-minute observation period had lower grade-point averages than those who didn’t go on the site
  • “Young people’s technology use is really about quelling anxiety,” he contends. “They don’t want to miss out.
  • Device-checking is a compulsive behavior that must be managed, he says, if young people are to learn and perform at their best.
  • ‘This is a time when you will concentrate on just one thing.’ ”
  • Just make sure when they’re doing schoolwork, the cellphones are silent, the video screens are dark, and that every last window is closed but one.
  • Steve Ransom on 22 Aug 14
     
    Great piece on the deleterious effects of multitasking on learning and the importance of teaching mindfulness and attention literacy in a highly digital and connected landscape.
Steve Ransom

The web's 'echo chamber' leaves us none the wiser (Wired UK) - 0 views

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  • Steve Ransom on 13 Jun 13
     
    Important in all worlds, analog and digital.
Steve Ransom

A Visual Guide To Teaching Students Digital Citizenship Skills - Edudemic - 0 views

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  • Steve Ransom on 10 Jan 14
     
    "The handy infographic below comes from Nancy White, who wrote on her site that she created the infographic when she was searching for a resource about the importance of modeling these skills for students."
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InCtrl :: Cable in the Classroom - 0 views

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  • Steve Ransom on 30 Jan 14
     
    Cable in the Classroom brings you a series of free, standards-based lessons that teach key digital citizenship concepts. These lessons, for students in grades 4-8, are designed to engage students through inquiry-based activities, and collaborative and creative opportunities. - 
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The Impact of Digital Tools on Student Writing and How Writing is Taught in Schools | P... - 0 views

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  • Steve Ransom on 17 Jul 13
     
    Asked to assess their students' performance on nine specific writing skills, teachers tended to rate their students "good" or "fair" as opposed to "excellent" or "very good." Students received the best ratings on their ability to "effectively organize and structure writing assignments" and their ability to "understand and consider multiple viewpoints on a particular topic or issue." Teachers gave students the lowest ratings when it comes to "navigating issues of fair use and copyright in composition" and "reading and digesting long or complicated texts."
Steve Ransom

The Mixed Message of Digital Citizenship | Ideas and Thoughts - 0 views

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    Worth thinking about.
Steve Ransom

Teaching With YouTube: 197 Digital Channels For Learning - 1 views

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  • Steve Ransom on 04 Dec 13
     
    Directing students to specific channels on YouTube is a must! Teachers, too.
Steve Ransom

In Digital Age, Schools That Succeed are Schools That Connect | MindShift - 0 views

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  • Steve Ransom on 18 Dec 13
     
    Schools must be intentional and informed about facilitating powerful learning with social media and new learning spaces... not simply tolerate it.
Steve Ransom

The Myth Of Digital Citizenship And Why We Need To Teach It Anyway | EdReach - 0 views

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  • What technology has done is taken the social consequences and amplified them beyond the capacity of many of our students to comprehend.  It’s taken what historically has been pretty low price tag infractions and inflated them at a rate many of us are unprepared to deal with.
Steve Ransom

Digital summer camp Part 2: Of managing a child's Minecraft time - NetFamilyNews.org | ... - 0 views

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  • Learning and play are one and the same to kids; it’s we adults who have been conditioned to believe that play is the opposite of work, a time-waster. In fact, the opposite of play is not work but depression
  • Joy is a much a sign of learning as concentration. Look for how much joy is involved in what they’re doing
  • Steve Ransom on 10 Jun 14
     
    "Learning and play are one and the same to kids; it's we adults who have been conditioned to believe that play is the opposite of work, a time-waster. In fact, the opposite of play is not work but depression"
Steve Ransom

What's the Impact of Overzealous Internet Filtering in Schools? | MindShift - 0 views

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  • “The over-filtering that occurs today affects not only what teachers can teach but also how they teach,”
  • “creates barriers to learning and acquiring digital literacy skills that are vital for college and career readiness, as well as for full participation in 21st-century society.”
  • “It’s not a magazine, we’re not just consumers, we’re creators, we’re users.”
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  • most students have unfettered access to these forbidden sites through the phones in their pockets and backpacks, on their home computers and in many public libraries – often with no adult guidance
  • it has to be learned in context in a supportive environment,”
  • (a) obscene; (b) child pornography; or (c) harmful to minors.”
  • defining the three measures is up to each community, creating widely varied implementation from district to district
  • and their answer to any requests was usually no.
  • Their view was that if the filter is blocking it, there’s no reason for you to see it,”
  • Krull implemented a teacher login system that lets staff override some blocked sites. He’s working on a similar system for students that would grant varying degrees of access depending on grade level.
  • nearly three times as many teachers of low-income students than those with middle- and high-income students said this lack of access was a “major challenge” in their ability “to incorporate more digital tools into their teaching.”
  • eliminating filters isn’t the answer to debugging the problems with CIPA.
  • There’s not a right or wrong; it’s a lot about community values
  • “It’s not if you have a filter or not, it’s really about to what degree do you filter, how do you filter?”
  • Steve Ransom on 03 Jul 14
     
    Teachers should have the professional courtesy of managing blocked/filtered sites
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