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Kevin Hodgson

Digital Citizenship - 0 views

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    from Hour of Code ... with paper heroes activity
Kevin Hodgson

Your Secret's Out: Fox News - 0 views

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    My classroom is featured in this special
Kevin Hodgson

Facebook: Kids on Facebook - 1 views

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    stats from survey on ages, use, etc, of kids
Janet Ilko

Turning Students into Good Digital Citizens -- THE Journal - 0 views

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    21st Century Literacy | In Print Turning Students into Good Digital Citizens Schools have always been charged with the task of producing good citizens. But how has our definition of a "good citizen" changed over the ages? Video Exclusive: Cultural anthropologist Michael Wesch at Kansas State University discusses the tools today's students need to be good digital citizens.
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    This article gives me pause to think as we create our digital workshop for parents, what are the positives of being a digital citizen? How does that impact their future as both students and young adults?
Kevin Hodgson

Reclaiming the Web for the Next Generation | DMLcentral - 0 views

  • These startups grow up into many-headed hydras with a thirst for the most intimate details about our online habits
    • Kevin Hodgson
       
      I agree, and with the push for innovation and the "next big thing," we often give up privacy and information without even realizing it.
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  • I often come across people willing trade privacy for convenience.
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  • when you are not paying for something, then you are the product.
    • Kevin Hodgson
       
      We see this a lot with educational spaces. They are free (so teachers are apt to try them to save money that they don't have in their classroom budget) but then forget what they are trading: the eyes of their students, and advertising dollars.
  • we need to be able to see the damage we are causing as a first step toward solving it. Words, like the ones you are reading now, often are not enough.
    • Kevin Hodgson
       
      But I also like to think that, as a teacher, direct lessons around privacy and digital lives can make a difference, if not immediate, then long-term. I remain hopeful of that.
  • First, our collective move away from open standards and decentralisation means that choosing to use a different service involves significant social impact. Second, even if an alternative does rear its head, the ending is all-too-familiar: it is acquired and swallowed by one of the huge incumbents
  • Each subsidiary company is branded differently, so we often forget where all the data streams are ultimately heading.
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      So true.
  • We are training for compliance rather than creating an informed, questioning citizenry.
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      Again, another teaching moment that often gets lost. What about teaching how to read "terms of service" agreements? Eh?
  • For the next generation, will they know the difference between the Internet and Google or Facebook? Will they, to put it bluntly, know the difference between a public good and a private company?
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      Here is the question that haunts me as a teacher, and as a parent.
Kevin Hodgson

Taking control of our digital lives | Brave New World - 1 views

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    bunch of good resources in this post
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