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Steve Ransom

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

  • 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.
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    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."
Steve Ransom

Internet Safety and Responsible Use Conference 2011 - a set on Flickr - 0 views

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    Nice cartoon set on Internet Safety and Responsible use on Flickr.
Steve Ransom

It Is Not About the Gadgets - Why Every Teacher Should Have to Integrate Tech Into Thei... - 0 views

  • On the other hand, I work with teachers now that are often running scared – very scared at times. They are blocked from using much technology, teachers that use drill and skills based software are praised, those that ask about doing anything online are scoffed at … they have to go out of their way and jump through 5 hoops all the time knowing that if things aren’t 100% smooth they will be questioned about safety, educational value, whether they have their students best interest and safety in mind and on and on. They are told (in error) that they will lose the district their e-Rate funding by having student work online or even have students working online … COPA laws will be broken, … in some schools and districts its not about making teachers integrate technology, its making administration, politicians and others see it as having value and creating an environment where it is at least OK and at best encouraged and supported. I never thought I would write such a comment, but believe me it is very ugly in places … I support 6 school districts, about 100,000 students and 8-10,000 teachers … some districts and some schools are very open and supportive of tech integration, others are extremely scared of all the things that they’ve heard of, more so than I would have thought. Good news is we are starting to make real progress … much too slowly, but progress. Yes, tech integration should not be an option, but there are still many places where it is not an option really. That’s the thinking we still need to overcome.
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    Great comment by Brian Crosby in the comment section. Does your school/district really support teachers as they aim to integrate technology... or treat them like novice children?
Steve Ransom

analog twitter wall to build relationships and digital citizenship - 0 views

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    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

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

  • 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
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    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

Cyber Security eBook Helps Parents and Teachers Educate Teens About Cyber Safety (Free ... - 0 views

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    Great resource for parents, teens and teachers!! Free eBook (PDF)
Steve Ransom

When kids are skilled navigators of our networked world | NetFamilyNews.org - 1 views

  • Even when we talk about “digital citizenship,” we talk more about behavior or “Netiquette” than agency, which is essential to the participation of any citizen in participatory democracy.
  • I think that, as a society, we’ve been entirely too focused on taking agency away from children, representing them more as potential victims and passive consumers than as stakeholders in their own wellbeing and that of their peers and communities and active participants in user-driven media
  • as we stop focusing on blocking media and monitoring and controlling children and start helping them develop the skills of effective navigation and participation – they will not only be safer now, while still children, they will also be safer, more effective participants in participatory media and culture all their lives, long after they’ve left home and high school.
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  • the goal is helping them develop the skills of effective participation in this connected world
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    Yes!!! "...the goal is helping them develop the skills of effective participation in this connected world..."
Steve Ransom

Social media major factor in teens' social & sex lives: Australia study - NetFamilyNews... - 0 views

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    Lagely good news, other than the worrisome sexting phenomenon.
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