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Brenda Muench

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  • Students explore the consequences of unintended audiences viewing their social network profiles. They consider four key characteristics of social network sites and how they might affect teens as they try out new identities. Then, students collaborate to write a letter to parents demonstrating their understanding of issues related to unintended online audiences.
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      freshmen
  • Students explore how bullying behaviors on social networking sites and cell phones can affect teens around the clock. They identify positive actions that bystanders can take to alleviate a particular scenario. Then they write a letter to the editor discussing the positives and negatives of social networking sites, messaging, and cell phone technologies used by teens.
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      Soph.
  • Students learn to think critically about their choices of Web sites for research by using an evaluation checklist that discusses the key characteristics of trustworthy sites. A sampling of sites on a topic of high interest to students provides the lesson context. Optional strategies for the use of Web 2.0 tools are included. Extend the lesson to examine the use of Wikipedia.
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      Jr.
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  • Students explore real stories of cyber security threats and damage and learn to think responsibly about securing their families' data at home and when using public computers. They think creatively about how to talk with their families about cyber security .
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      Seniors - great stuff to discuss as they prepare to go to college and operate on a different network
  • Cite Your Sources
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      When this one becomes available we need to look at it!
Christina Decker

Multisubject Website - 0 views

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    great leveled collection of games
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    This is a paid site that uses the SMARTboard to practice skills in reading, math, science, and social studies for PreK-6th grade.
Brenda Muench

Adventures in Pencil Integration: will technology replace teachers? - 0 views

  • "So you're saying that as long as we have parents working and essentially getting free babysitting we'll have teachers."   "Yes, I guess so.  Don't get me wrong, I value education and my role as a teacher.  It's just that the primary role of a teacher is socialization.  No one says it outright.  We talk about learning to read and yes, that's true.  But on some level, schools raise kids while parents work."  
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    ""So you're saying that as long as we have parents working and essentially getting free babysitting we'll have teachers." "Yes, I guess so. Don't get me wrong, I value education and my role as a teacher. It's just that the primary role of a teacher is socialization. No one says it outright. We talk about learning to read and yes, that's true. But on some level, schools raise kids while parents work." "
Brenda Muench

City Brights: Howard Rheingold : 21st Century Literacies - 0 views

  • And don't swallow the myth of the digital native. Just because your teens Facebook, IM, and Youtube, don't assume they know the rhetoric of blogging, collective knowledge gathering techniques of taggers and social bookmarkers, collaborative norms of wiki work, how to tune and feed a Twitter network, the art of multimedia argumentation - and, by far most importantly, online crap detection.
  • I teach courses today on social media issues at Stanford and Berkeley.
  • The most important critical uncertainty today is how many of us learn to use digital media and networks effectively, reasonably, credibly, collaboratively, civilly, humanely.
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  • They accept "information" from "news" sources simply because they are known television news stations
Brenda Muench

TALKI - The easiest way to embed a forum - 0 views

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