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A great quad blog on possibilities for teaching and addressing social awareness as it relates to digital citizenship in schools.

""The use of Facebook by students around the world to communicate with one another does more harm than good."" This is our topic for the Eracism 2013 project. You may wonder - why did we limit it to Facebook - well, after much-- yes, --- debate-- on our end, every good debate topic should have compelling topics on both sides - we wanted to have compelling discussions around social media and keep with the original spirit of the 4 students who envisioned this project. They wanted to debate topics of importance to promote cultural understanding. If you want to sign up, this is linked to the 2013 press release that will tell you how to enter a team from middle up to high school (there are 2 brackets). We debate asynchronously in a method we call "simulated synchronous" until the finals, when we have a synchronous live debate in blackboard collaborate. 

"Barb, love the clever use of Animoto for this as well as the practical way you showed the usefulness of a PLE for social entrepreneurship. Thanks!"

Mobile social networks possible - connects groups together via the app

Amazing program about Modern Slavery. He is looking for International Schools to get involved.

Thinking about doing a social action global project

Vicki Davis shares her classroom and the use of social media in the classroom and talks about the development of Flat Classroom.

I agree with some of these reasons - there are two mains issues - 1) lack of good quality e-books (in other words 'e-books' that are really PDF format with limited hyperlinking, interaction and social media 2) a lack of vision amongst teachers to encourage students to write their OWN text books.

"After more more than a decade of e-safety work in UK schools, the evidence suggests that most young people, who are supported and informed, know the key e-safety issues and are able to stay safe online."

A new scoop.it created by @shamblesguru

Come to Mumbai in February -March 2014 and join this unique learning experience that includes students and teachers.

A site like pinterest for videos

Wondering if anyone uses this?

This article resonates with me - it is about learning environments and setting a mindset for opening the doors to global as well as connected learning for all.

Vicki Davis just blogged about this.  I like the "Call in the Posts" feature. . . 

Wendy Melnick is participating in this right now, review the Ning for more information.  A Gaming site for students about changing the world.