Digital Citizenship in Schools

This document is a code of best practices that helps educators using media literacy concepts and techniques to interpret the copyright doctrine of fair use. Fair use is the right to use copyrighted material without permission or payment under some circumstances-especially when the cultural or social benefits of the use are predominant. It is a general right that applies even in situations where the law provides no specific authorization for the use in question-as it does for certain narrowly defined classroom activities.

While 'the internet' and 'manners' don't tend to pop up in the same sentence very often (at least not in the positive sense), there are a number of ways that manners really do matter when you're interacting online.

device, I'm concerned that most one-to-one implementation strategies are based on the new tool as the focus of the program. Unless we break out of this limited vision that one-to-one computing is about the device, we are doomed to waste our resources.

"In all of our efforts to teach students safe, appropriate, and responsible technology use, are we forgetting the more important job of teaching our students empowered use?" A collection of links that aim to encourage a discussion in schools about the purpose of AUPs.

Another post about letting the students access their tools of communication. The website this is attached to is well worth a look as it links to the Australian Curriculum.

For the tweens and from observations at a few K-6 schools, Instagram seems to have become the new Facebook. This is a simple, easy-to read article about what exactly Instagram is all about.

This is a terrific sheet that could be brought to parents attention to support them in their quest to help their children become social media savvy.

This link was posted on the OZTLNet, so my apologies if you have come across this already. I have a handful of students who love Prezi and produce very impressive results with it. This helpful tutorial makes me feel that I can now follow in their footsteps.

This link was posted on the OZTLNet, so my apologies If you've come across this already. I have a handful of students from different secondary years who love Prezi and produce great presentations using it. With the help of this video tutorial, I think that I may be able to follow their lead.

"Have you ever Googled yourself ? Have you ever checked your virtual identity? Do you know that you leave a digital footprint every time you get online? Do you know that whatever you do online is accumulated into a digital dossier traceable by others ? These and several other similar questions are but the emerging tip of the sinking iceberg.One that is packed full of concerns related to issues of our online identity and privacy issues."

Advice for developing AUPs in schools

For Wired's 20th anniversary, we investigate the first generation born into a world that has never not known digital life. If you want to understand the past two decades, they are perhaps the perfect subjects. The drumbeat of disruption and technological advance is their natural rhythm.

" Real time updating, a powerful search tool, and easily movable columns make it the perfect tool for journalists and producers monitoring a number of different stories across the day.​ TweetDeck works by sorting the' noise' into manageable streams, based around searches, lists and profiles."

Another article for gauging where schools, educators' pedagogies sit in relation to using technologies. Do we offer students opportunities to develop good citizenship behaviours using technologies? Is education and learning in a rut in some schools? A real thought provoking article?