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John Pearce

Terms of Service; Didn't Read | Bright Ideas - 4 views

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    "The most time-consuming part of evaluating web tools for educational use has got to be looking at the Terms of Service (also know as Terms of Use or Terms and Conditions). They can go on for pages, and are so often wrapped up in so much legalese that even if you manage to read to the end, there is no guarantee you will be any wiser. And yet we can't just ignore them; it is our duty as educators and as digital citizens to protect rights and understand responsibilities online."
Rob Jacklin

How to Quickly Read a Terms of Service - 0 views

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    You're inundated with new contracts, Terms of Service, privacy policies, and disclaimers for every new service you use, but reading them all is next to impossible for a normal human being. To help solve this problem, we've looked at the language of most Terms of Service agreements to come up with the main words and sections everyone should pay attention to.
jo quinlan

Teens finally understand rights after lawyer translates Instagram terms into plain English - 3 views

  • how much do these teens understand what they've agreed to give up when they start an account with those sites?
  • of course no one reads them. I mean, most adults don't read them."
  • Most of those children have no idea what their privacy rights are, despite all of them agreeing to terms and conditions before starting their social media accounts
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  • unwittingly giving away personal information, with no real understanding of who is holding that information, where they are holding it and what they are going to do with it."
  • Instagram's terms of use in total run at least seven printed pages, with more than 5000 words, mostly written in legalese.
  • teenagers said they understood very little about privacy rights on Instagram
  • registered at a postgraduate reading level
  • "Instagram, like many social networks, leaves the user with very little information to exercise their rights or any genuine privacy," the report said. "This exercise makes it clear that the current offering made by websites and apps to their users is not acceptable. Children and young people have the right to know how the relationship between their rights and the rights of the service that they have signed up to use, functions."
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    How much do teens understand what they've agreed to give up when they start an account with social media sites?
Judy O'Connell

What is a good digital citizen? | Cyber White Paper - 8 views

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    "The recently released Public Discussion Paper, supporting the development of Australia's first Cyber White Paper, makes use of the term 'digital citizenship'. It's an odd term. Citizenship has traditionally been associated with being part of a nation, for example an Australian citizen. National citizenship has also been associated with a set of rights (the right to vote, the right to a level of protection, etc) and obligations (abide by the laws of the land). This concept of citizenship is underpinned by the notion of mutual consent. Citizens' consent to governments' political authority in return for governments' exercising their power justly, legally and in the interests of their citizens. This agreement between citizens and governments is commonly referred to as the 'social contract'. "
jo quinlan

Social Media Privacy Terms Translated into Plain English, Finally - 4 views

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    Simpler is Better (We Hope) We've chosen three of today's most popular social networks and given you a bit of news on how their terms and conditions have been revised recently. Hopefully, this is information your kids and students will be able to use to keep themselves safe when using social media.
John Pearce

Didn't Read Facebook's Fine Print? Here's Exactly What It Says - 2 views

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    "So, like every other one of the world's 1.28 billion monthly active Facebook users, you blindly agreed to Facebook's Terms and Conditions without reading the fine print. You entrusted your photo albums, private messages and relationships to a website without reading its policies. And you do the same with every other site ... sound about right? In your defense, Carnegie Mellon researchers determined that it would take the average American 76 work days to read all the privacy policies they agreed to each year. So you're not avoiding the reading out of laziness; it's literally an act of job preservation. So here are the Cliffs Notes of what you agreed to when you and Facebook entered into this contract. Which, by the way, began as soon as you signed up:"
John Pearce

Web 2.0 for the Under 13s crowd - 11 views

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    "As I lamented in my last post, many of the fabulous Web tools out there are restricted to users 13 and over. This limits what Elementary/Primary schools students can access online to create content to collaborate. To save others at school some time, then, I have compiled a list of popular/well known Web tools that can and can't be used by children under 13 - 1), so we are legally covered in what we are allowing our students to use and 2), so they know what is available. Please note that generally the sites that allow for under 13s still ask for parental permission ( even Edmodo if you haven't read the Terms of Use) so a solid school user agreement is needed to use these tools. Some of the sites are not US based so are not bound by COPPA and CIPA regulations. It still requires schools to carefully check out what can be viewed on these sites to ensure they are appropriate to access."
Geise Library

Terms of Service; Didn't Read - 6 views

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    Site which summarises the lengthy Terms of Service documents. Gives an easy way to check if you are happy with the conditions you sign up to (esp social media)
Barbara Combes

Does Texting Hurt Your Grammar? - 4 views

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    The communication culture of text messaging-part of the bigger blanket term "tech speak"-can have adverse long-term effects on students' grammar, according to statistics featured in the following infographic on Visal.ly.
Judy O'Connell

Digital education: comparison in attitudes | Australian Policy Online - 8 views

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    "I set out to answer these questions through a study of attitudes, which compared digitally literate students' to digitally-challenged teachers and visa versa. In this study being undertaken at Swinburne University and sponsored by the Wesley College Institute for Innovation in Education, 321 students in years 9 and 10 and 100 educators were surveyed about their attitudes to digital literacy and the use of digital technologies. The schools were co-educational independent schools with laptop programs and significant differences were observed in student and educator attitudes towards each other's digital literacy. The hypothesis, "that there is a disconnect between the digitally capable students and digitally challenged educators in schools with laptop programs, limiting effective use of digital technology in the classroom" was supported in the findings. This has repercussions for educating "net generation" students and implications for the implementation of the National Secondary Computer Fund and National Broadband Network. The disconnect was revealed in terms of attitudes towards technology in the classroom, teaching pedagogy, internet use, adoption of cutting-edge technologies and limitations placed on school laptops and networks. In this study 57 statements were provided to research participants, who were then grouped into four groups: digitally capable students, digitally challenged students, digitally capable educators and digitally challenged educators."
John Pearce

Phil Bradley's weblog: Search privately using your favorite search engine. - 1 views

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    "As we all know, search engines like tracking you - your IP address, your search terms and so on. They use this to build up profiles, store the data and so on. It can be a real pain trying to search without this information being stored, but you can try Disconnect Private Search. This routes your search queries through their proxy servers before they go to the popular search engines, including Google, Bing and Yahoo."
John Pearce

Export Google Search History - 2 views

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    "I've mentioned last year that Google tested a download feature for search history. It looks like this feature is available for everyone. Just go to Google Web History, click the gear button and select "Download". "You can download all of your saved search history to see a list of the terms you've searched for. This gives you access to your data when and where you want," informs Google. "When you download your past searches, a copy of your history will be saved securely to the Takeout folder in Google Drive. You can download the files to your computer if you want a copy on your computer.""
Judy O'Connell

PLAYBACK: Getting Involved in a Digital World-Changing Methods and Mindsets | Spotlight... - 0 views

  • Overcoming the New Stereotypes: Newly created obstacles might be getting in the way of change, though. We have discussed the problems with the term “digital natives” before (see Trebor Scholz). The term—which refers to a younger generation that has grown up with technology and that supposedly processes information fundamentally differently than older generations (“digital immigrants”) who have merely adopted the technology as it has emerged—is a deceptive metaphor, according to Henry Jenkins, and a intimidating obstacle for teachers, according to Susan Zvacek, director of instructional development at the University of Kansas.
  • One of the key arguments we are making is that the role of educators needs to shift away from being expert in a particular area of knowledge, to becoming expert in the ability to create and shape new learning environments. In a way, that is a much more challenging, but also much more rewarding, role.
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      These same educators need to take on a 'leadership' mindset in order to facilitate change and development in learning. Teacher librarians can help allay anxieties of the 'new pedagogical paradigm'. 
  • The other major part of upgrading ourselves, or at least my view of it, is to understand the macro trends and issues in our society that affect our ability to get the most out of the media we consume and create.
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    A new survey from the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project finds that 80 percent of internet users participate in some kind of voluntary group or organization, compared to just 56 percent of non-internet users. And if you use social media, the percentages are even higher: 85 percent of Twitter users, for example, are group participants.
Judy O'Connell

Privacy, digital citizenship and young children | Australian Policy Online - 3 views

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    "A growing number of educators and advocates in the online safety field are now embracing the term 'digital citizenship' to describe education about privacy, safety, security and responsible use of information and communication technologies (ICT). There is also a growing understanding of the importance of beginning this education when a child first starts their use of ICT. "
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    The full version of this does not seem to exist :(
Judy O'Connell

Disney Acquires Social Network For Kids Togetherville - 1 views

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    "Disney has just acquired Togetherville, a social network for kids 10 years of age or younger, we've confirmed with the company. Terms of the acquisition are not being disclosed at the moment."
Judy O'Connell

Damien "Ezzy" Eades | first 'sexting' conviction pursued - 0 views

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    "The 20-year-old from Sydney's western suburbs is at the centre of Australia's first ''sexting'' case, after a schoolgirl sent a nude photo of herself to his mobile phone. The maximum penalty he faces is a two-year jail term."
Judy O'Connell

7 Tips and Marketing Strategies for the New Facebook Fan Pages - 0 views

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    Use this same information to do your club, school library, or other organisations page in terms of layout tactics. Students could use this for clubs or fav hobbies. 
Julie Lindsay

Report Questions Future Relevance of Formal Education -- THE Journal - 2 views

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    Can formal education remain relevant in the long term? That's one of six critical challenges facing schools identified in a new report examining the impact of technology on education.
Julie Lindsay

Photos For Class - The quick and safe way to find and cite images for class! - 5 views

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    Excellent image search and citation tool! - Safe G Rated Images - All images are appropriate for school setting thanks to Flicker safe Search and our proprietary filters - - Automatic Citation - Downloaded images automatically cite the author and the image license terms - Creative Commons - All photos shown are to the best of our (and Flickr's) knowledge Creative Commons licensed for school use"
Julie Lindsay

Revisiting the Digital Native Hypothesis - 0 views

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    In a very influential essay that appeared about 15 years ago ("Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants" [pdf]), Mark Prensky coined the term 'digital natives', asserting that "students today are all "native speakers" of the digital language of computers, video games and the Internet" and that, as a result, "today's students think and process information fundamentally differently from their predecessors". In contrast, "[t]hose of us who were not born into the digital world but have, at some later point in our lives, become fascinated by and adopted many or most aspects of the new technology are, and always will be compared to them, Digital Immigrants." While Prensky's views on this topic have evolved over the years and become more nuanced (those interested in his particular views may wish to visit his web site), this original definition and delineation of what it means to be a digital native and a digital immigrant remains quite potent for many people.
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