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Media Literacy for Development and Children's Rights "Media Literacy for Development & Children's Rights" was created by UNICEF Canada to help young people in grades 6 - 8 understand the role played by the media in influencing their attitudes and perceptions about developing nations and development issues. This module contains a series of lessons, exercises and background information to help familiarize students with the issues and challenges surrounding representation of other countries and cultures by the media. There are three activities in Lesson One: Optical Illusion, True or False?, and From Your Point of View

Online safety must be relevant to youth, or we're talking to ourselves. It must accommodate the growing body of research on youth risk and what kids themselves say about how they use digital media, and it must be respectful-of both young people and the new media conditions they're ably exploiting.

This is written regarding post secondary students, but I think that it applies equally well to K-12.

"This new media environment can be enormously disruptive to our current teaching methods and philosophies. As we increasingly move toward an environment of instant and infinite information, it becomes less important for students to know, memorize, or recall information, and more important for them to be able to find, sort, analyze, share, discuss, critique, and create information. They need to move from being simply knowledgeable to being knowledge-able."

The introduction of social media means parents need to supervise their kids' use of the technology though they may not know much about it themselves

Alberta's BYOD guide

Star Phoenix - (available in Canadian Newstand database) According to the University of Victoria political science PhD candidate and digital media researcher, students -- especially those on the verge of graduating and heading out into the working world -- should be aware of their digital reputation. According to Norah McRae, executive director of UVic's Co-operative Education Program and Career Services, there aren't any statistics that show exactly what percentage of employers will Google

Sophie is software for collaboratively authoring and viewing rich media documents in a networked environment.

"When kids at the Suffern Middle School were asked to talk about education and their future, they gave Peggy Sheehy, the SMS media specialist, an earful. Listen and learn the bits of wisdom that can be gleaned from the students, if we only dare to ask them"

Guys - I really liked this video - I wonder how teachers would react to it?

This free, lightweight, web-based application lets anyone, anywhere download, edit and share files created in SMART Notebook software. For educators who do not have SMART Notebook software installed on their computers, SMART Notebook Express enables them to access and customize SMART Notebook content for their teaching needs.

A site developed in response to the London bombings.