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Michelle Krill

FBI Publications - A Parent's Guide to Internet Safety - 0 views

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its week9 safety internetsafety

shared by Michelle Krill on 20 Oct 08 - Cached
  • parents should consider monitoring the amount of time spent on-line.
    • Michelle Krill
      Michelle Krill on 26 Oct 08
       
      duh!
  • phone calls from men
  • Some computer-sex offenders have even obtained toll-free 800 numbers, so that their potential victims can call them without their parents finding out.
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  • Consider talking openly with your child about your suspicions.
    • Michelle Krill
      Michelle Krill on 26 Oct 08
       
      Consider talking to them? How about - talk to them - immediately. Come on, I know this is a government site, but are they nervous to say what parents MUST do?
Michelle Krill

If You Can't Beat 'Em, Join 'Em : August 2007 : THE Journal - 0 views

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collaboration its socialnetworking thejournal week6

shared by Michelle Krill on 22 Sep 08 - Cached
  • Michelle Krill on 22 Sep 08
     
    Educators who recognize how much social networking engages and informs kids are creating their own sites as learning tools that foster collaboration among students, teachers, and parents.
karen sipe

ReadKiddoRead - 1 views

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reading elementary secondary lessons resources mediaspecialist blog

shared by karen sipe on 26 Nov 09 - Cached
  • karen sipe on 26 Nov 09
     
    This site is sponsored by best selling author, James Patterson. In previewing the site it looks fantastic. The goal is to get kids to be readers for life. There are lots of resources, lessons, book suggestions by age level. There is a tool that teachers and parents can use to help a child find a book that would interest them. There is a link about getting boys to read. There are interview with authors and famous people. There is a blog.
Michelle Krill

Identity Production in a Networked Culture: Why Youth Heart MySpace - 0 views

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its myspace week6

shared by Michelle Krill on 22 Sep 08 - Cached
  • identity production and socialization in contemporary American society.
  • youth - ages 14-24.
  • Moral panics are a common reaction to teenagers when they engage in practices not understood by adult culture.
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  • the benefits for socialization outweigh the potential harm
  • Unlike adults, youth are not invested in email; their primary peer-to-peer communication occurs synchronously over IM. Their use of MySpace is complementing that practice.
  • liminal
  • Regardless of what will come, youth are doing what they've always done - repurposing new mediums in order to learn about social culture.
  • Michelle Krill on 22 Sep 08
     
    I want to talk with you today about how teenagers are using a website called MySpace.com. I will briefly describe the site and then discuss how youth use it for identity production and socialization in contemporary American society.
  • Michelle Krill on 27 Sep 08
     
    Parents and teachers should all read this one!
Michelle Krill

Are Modern Kids Coddled? | Newsweek Family | Newsweek.com - 0 views

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week9 parenting safety

shared by Michelle Krill on 03 Nov 08 - Cached
  • Michelle Krill on 03 Nov 08
     
    Are we too overprotective?
Michelle Krill

Telling Tales with Technology - 0 views

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week11 digitalstorytelling podcast

shared by Michelle Krill on 11 Nov 08 - Cached
  • Stories definitely can teach, but they are also designed to be engaging, to pull at your heart as well as your head, and to help viewers draw conclusions about their own lives or actions."
  • felt that if they knew that they could turn those writing pieces — particularly the personal narrative that is part of the portfolio — into digital stories, their feelings about writing might change."
  • students creating digital stories about a time each of their lives changed.
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  • Health students create public service announcements on addiction, English classes create visual poetry, and history students interview their parents about their own high school years.
Michelle Krill

Strengthening Student Resilience to Online Risks | PBS - 0 views

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onlinesafety digitalcitizenship internetsafety its week9

shared by Michelle Krill on 27 Oct 08 - Cached
  • put the relative threat of online predators in perspective, while at the same time noting that schools and parents must to more to give students the media literacy skills required to use the Internet responsibly.
  • On the other side of this digital divide, there are countless young people who feel like they are masters of digital technology, despite the fact they often use these tools naively or recklessly because of a lack media literacy and critical thinking skills.
    • Michelle Krill
      Michelle Krill on 27 Oct 08
       
      Crossing the street analogy is perfect!
  • Michelle Krill on 27 Oct 08
     
    Love the crossing the street analogy! Perfect!
Michelle Krill

Seeing No Progress, Some Schools Drop Laptops - New York Times - 0 views

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shared by Michelle Krill on 14 Jan 09 - Cached
  • ore than a decade ago, schools began investing heavily in laptops at the urging of school boards and parent groups who saw them as the key to the 21st century classroom. Following Maine’s lead in 2002, states including Michigan, Pennsylvania and South Dakota helped buy laptops for thousands of students through statewide initiatives like “Classrooms for the Future
  • Classrooms for the Future
  • Many school administrators and teachers say laptops in the classroom have motivated even reluctant students to learn, resulting in higher attendance and lower detention and dropout rates.
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  • But Mr. Warschauer, who supports laptop programs, said schools like Liverpool might be giving up too soon because it takes time to train teachers to use the new technology and integrate it into their classes.
  • “Where laptops and Internet use make a difference are in innovation, creativity, autonomy and independent research,”
  • Michelle Krill on 14 Jan 09
     
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Jeremy Bischoff

Seeing No Progress, Some Schools Drop Laptops - New York Times - 0 views

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shared by Jeremy Bischoff on 14 Jan 09 - Cached
  • Such disappointments are the latest example of how technology is often embraced by philanthropists and political leaders as a quick fix, only to leave teachers flummoxed about how best to integrate the new gadgets into curriculums.
    • Michelle Krill
      Michelle Krill on 14 Jan 09
       
      Dumping laptops into schools without a plan on how to use them will obviously meet with failure. IMHO.
  • Last month, the United States Department of Education released a study showing no difference in academic achievement between students who used educational software programs for math and reading and those who did not.
    • Michelle Krill
      Michelle Krill on 14 Jan 09
       
      Learning is not going to happen with software and hardware alone.
  • a survey of district teachers and parents found that one-fifth of Matoaca students rarely or never used their laptops for learning.
    • Michelle Krill
      Michelle Krill on 14 Jan 09
       
      Not the fault of the hardware or software, most likely.
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  • the school board president
    • Jeremy Bischoff
      Jeremy Bischoff on 17 Jan 09
       
      First off, why are they talking to the school board president?
  • Michelle Krill on 14 Jan 09
     
    For Assignment 1 - Moodle Discussion on 1:1
  • Michelle Krill on 14 Jan 09
     
    For Assignment 1 - 1:1 Moodle Discussion
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