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Robert Harris

Education Week: Schools Open Doors to Students' Mobile Devices - 1 views

  • More educators are wising up, they say, to the reality that most students have phones or other mobile devices that could allow them to give real-time feedback to a lecture on a text-message back channel, take pictures during a science field trip, or answer teacher prompts with online polling. And with the increasing capabilities and prevalence of mobile devices, the growing demand for K-12 students to be comfortable learning online, and the shrinking technology budgets of districts coping with the aftermath of the Great Recession, allowing students to use their own mobile devices is making more sense to more people.
  • Recent research shows the proportion of students owning cellphones is increasing. A January survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation found about two-thirds of 8- to 18-year-olds owned cellphones, while more than three-quarters had an iPod or other MP3 media player. And an April study by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project reported that when you change the age bracket to 12- to 17-year-olds, 75 percent of students have cellphones—and often smartphones that are capable of completing many of the same online functions as laptop computers and netbooks.
  • “What we need to do as schools is to teach our kids to be responsible users,
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  • You have to spend time working with parents, answering questions and concerns, and helping them understand why we’re doing something like this.
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    "More educators are wising up, they say, to the reality that most students have phones or other mobile devices that could allow them to give real-time feedback to a lecture on a text-message back channel, take pictures during a science field trip, or answer teacher prompts with online polling. And with the increasing capabilities and prevalence of mobile devices, the growing demand for K-12 students to be comfortable learning online, and the shrinking technology budgets of districts coping with the aftermath of the Great Recession, allowing students to use their own mobile devices is making more sense to more people."
Jesse Cole

Social Networking Technologies in Education by Dallas McPheeters - 0 views

  • The struggle within modern society regarding the adoption of new technologies has been framed as a dichotomy between those who oppose its tendency to redefine culture and those who embrace it. However a new paradigm has emerged among the young generation that sees beyond the bipartisan debate, rendering the debate itself irrelevant. This sense of irrelevancy among a whole new generation is mistakenly viewed as disinterest by the two sides of debaters.
  • s Shirkey notes, “Communications tools don’t get socially interesting until they get technologically boring...
  • Regardless of the criticism, research is underway to determine the extent to which virtual technologies enhance constructivist learning
Robert Harris

Children's Internet Protection Act | FCC.gov - 0 views

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    The Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) is a federal law enacted by Congress to address concerns about access to offensive content over the Internet on school and library computers. CIPA imposes certain types of requirements on any school or library that receives funding for Internet access or internal connections from the E-rate program - a program that makes certain communications technology more affordable for eligible schools and libraries. In early 2001, the FCC issued rules implementing CIPA.
Robert Harris

Digital Citizenship - Resources for Educators - 1 views

  • Digital Citizenship Resources Digital Citizenship Web Siteshttp://www.digitalcitizenship.net/Digital Citizenship Heartland WikiInternet SafetyA Beginners Guide to School SecurityPrivacy Security, Survival GuidePrivacy RightsCOPPA Children’s Online Privacy Protection ActAcceptable Use Policy (AUP)AUP ModelCyberbee AUP ResourcesiSafe Acceptable Use PolicyNorthwest Educational Technology Consortiumhttp://www.netc.org/planning/planning/aup.phpAUP ElementsAUP'sSample:MassachusettsAUP ResearchArticles and General Web SitesTeaching Digital Citizenship
  • Because Web 2.0 tools and social networking are readily available more emphasis is needed for responsible behavior in this digital society. Ethics and responsibilities need to be taught to all students.
Robert Harris

Kick Start Your Blogging | Teacher Challenge - 3 views

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    Step by step process through activity challenges to kick start your teacher blog. Leveled for different paces of learning.
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