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Your students may be able to update their Facebook status in a heartbeat, but can they also write a thoughtful letter to the editor, voice their opinion on a call-in radio show, or access local media to advocate for community action? How well would parents or teachers in your community do at those tasks? In Digital and Media Literacy: A Plan of Action, media literacy expert Renee Hobbs makes a strong case for deepening digital literacy -- not only for youth but for Americans of all ages. Improving our digital and media literacy will require nothing less than a national community education effort, Hobbs argues in a position paper recently published by the Aspen Institute and Knight Foundation. Sorting through the flood of information most of us encounter daily requires new knowledge and critical-thinking skills, she says.

Sort of related to the topic of Digital Citizenship, but also a bit of a test posting.

"You may think the only people capable of snooping on your Internet activity are government intelligence agents or possibly a talented teenage hacker holed up in his parents' basement. But some simple software lets just about anyone sitting next to you at your local coffee shop watch you browse the Web and even assume your identity online. "

The Internet and American Life Project at the Pew Research Center found that from 2006 to 2009, blogging among children ages 12 to 17 fell by half; now 14 percent of children those ages who use the Internet have blogs. Among 18-to-33-year-olds, the project said in a report last year, blogging dropped two percentage points in 2010 from two years earlier.

This looks like such a good resource but it costs because these are all genuine apps. Some good specials. To me even the names of the apps provides a helpful suggestion of digital activities that may be set and aligned with Blooms.

"Inspired by an article about cyberbullying I asked my fifth-graders to write podcast scripts. They wrote about teasing, cyberbullying, gossip, intention vs. consequence, advertising, digital footprints and the lack of facial cues in electronic communication. Working mostly in collaborative groups, my students recorded complete "'casts" on our informal laptop studio."

Arizona Department of Education

At the start of the year we were given the Horizon Report on the future of technology and learning to read. One of the more distant predications was the use of gaming for learning. This article is from the NY times. It is followed by a Q&A with Thomas Paul Gee.

"After discussing and examining their media lives, students were asked to use a simile to explain their media lives. For example, one could say, "My media life is like a young puppy... it's full of life, friendly, hyper, and hard to calm down.""

I think that we'd all agree with these eight points, especially those regarding time. There is definitely a role for the teacher librarian in facilitating these strategies.

"With all of this comes new risks and new benefits to consider - such as a new social etiquette within social media, and potential privacy issues as we store more information off local machines and onto the so-called "cloud"."

"While the first instinct in schools and districts is often to block services such as Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and even some blogging platforms, the positives of these tools often outweigh the negatives. When used well, social media tools connect all stakeholders in a school community in a ways that have never before been possible. "

How Scoopit can be used by teachers and students.

One media review of the new Grade 6 cybersafety online course found here: https://www.digitallicence.com.au/home

Cloud to take up 90% of IoT data by 2020, says IDC. IDC's FutureScape report reveals the latest findings and predictions on the Internet of Things (IoT) between 2015 and 2020. CBR highlights 10 need-to-know predictions from the report's findings. 1.

Content curation: what is it? what actions are involved? what are some best practices? some uses? best tools?

Denis Masseni, a Monash university lecturer and a director of Sponsor-Ed has written a report called "Why Schools are spooked by social media" (2010) which presents findings from a survey of 140 principals on the subject of social media. It's a positive take on SNS use in schools. This site links both the 34 page paper and a small radio interview (8 mins) which is well worth a listen.