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Cyberbullying Prevention Guide for Kids Video | Common Sense Media - 0 views

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    Parent's Guide: watch Common Sense Media's Cyberbullying Prevention Guide for Kids advice video to help you make informed decisions with your children.
Kevin Hodgson

Digital Citizenship - 0 views

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

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

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    bunch of good resources in this post
Kevin Hodgson

Digital Insanity: Can We Auto-Correct Humanity? Why I Refuse to Let Technology Control ... - 0 views

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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
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      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.
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      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.
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79% of Parents Talk to Their Kids About Online Safety - 0 views

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    Good infographic with lots of info for parents
Kevin Hodgson

When Bullying Goes Digital: Student Version by Kevin Hodgson on Prezi - 1 views

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    adapted prezi
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