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"Plagiarism has been with us for as long as the written word. From the classical Greek playwrights, to Dr Martin Luther King, even the greatest of historical figures have been tainted by scandal. But over the last decade, academics have spoken out with increasing exasperation over the tide of students using everything from Wikipedia to bespoke essay writing services in pursuit of easy high grades. Universities are involved in a cat and mouse game to stop the plagiarists in their tracks."

"An internet tribute to a taunted public schoolgirl who died under a train has itself been hijacked by bullies. Natasha MacBryde, 15, was killed on St Valentine's Day following rumours that she had been teased about her parents' divorce. Friends set up a remembrance page to the 'model pupil' on Facebook so well-wishers could post messages. But amidst the fond memories came sick postings including one which said: 'Natasha wasn't bullied, she was just a whore', while another said: 'I caught the train to heaven LOL (laugh out loud)."

"The internet is the "greatest spying machine the world has ever seen" and is not a technology that necessarily favours the freedom of speech, the WikiLeaks co-founder, Julian Assange, has claimed in a rare public appearance. Assange acknowledged that the web could allow greater government transparency and better co-operation between activists, but said it gave authorities their best ever opportunity to monitor and catch dissidents."

"There are many resources available to help support schools to teach pupils to be responsible users of the Internet and to educate pupils to be as safe as possible when using online tools. Here are some resources to support teaching digital literacy:"

I really like this idea - a murder mystery solved by piecing together a person's life by the digital fragments they have left behind... hope it's as good as it sounds

Children will find a way! Evidence of Digital Fluency

The genius ways kids are using Google Docs to get round social media bans

With all lessons, but particularly citizenship, we must first help students regulate, be able to relate to them and then we can reason with them. (The three R's)

There are a number of labels to describe the young people currently studying at school, college and university. They include the digital natives, the net generation, the Google generation or the millenials. All of these terms are being used to highlight the significance and importance of new technologies within the lives of young people (Gibbons, 2007). For some, new technologies have been such a defining feature in the lives of younger generations that they predict a fundamental change in the way young people communicate, socialise, create and learn. They argue that this shift has profound implications for education (e.g. Prensky, 2001a; Gibbons, 2007; Rainie, 2006 and Underwood, 2007). Typically, supporters of this concept view the differences between those who are or who are not digital natives as primarily about when a person was born. This paper will critique and show new evidence against this conception of the digital native as based purely on generational differences. The paper will separate the 'doing' from the 'being', that is it will propose a number of digital activities (doing) that indicate digital nativeness and then examine which types of people (being) are most likely to demonstrate these characteristics. The paper will show that breadth of use, experience, self-efficacy and education are just as, if not more, important than age in explaining how people become digital natives.

learning, technology, education, steve, wheeler, social media, internet, mobile

Huge array of info on animal behaviour including adaptation, communication, life cycles etc. Brilliant for Biological Sciences.

Teaching students to navigate the news with an analytical mind is an essential skill for students, argues the director of the National Literacy Trust

Hague, C. and Payton, S. (2010). Digital Literacy Across the Curriculum (Futurelab Handbook). Bristol: Futurelab.

2010 production - excellent resource for shaping and framing a DLE and approaching digital citizenship

An interesting model for defining digital literacy.

Presentation by Ellen J. Helsper - Oxford Internet Institute Monday, 17 November 2008International Conference on Digital Literacy Brunel University

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