We have to move beyond stranger danger and scare tactics. Sharing frightening stories (often overstated) does nothing to model positive outcomes or move the conversation to discussions of how to deal with something gone wrong.
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Struggling with educators' lack of technology fluency | Dangerously Irrelevant - 1 views
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A Difference: You, Your Kids, and Your Phones - 0 views
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Your policies should target underlying substantive behaviors, not the mediums in which those behaviors occur.
Connected learning resources and infographic | Dangerously Irrelevant - 0 views
99 slides to get you started | Dangerously Irrelevant - 0 views
26 Internet safety talking points | Dangerously Irrelevant - 0 views
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Why are you penalizing the 95% for the 5%? You don’t do this in other areas of discipline at school.
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There’s a difference between a teachable moment and a punishable moment. Lean toward the former as much as possible.
Connecticut superintendents propose a radically different approach to education | Dange... - 0 views
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Unlike most school reformers floating 'tweak-the-status-quo' proposals these days (let's test kids more! let's get rid of a few teachers! let's make school longer! let's lecture better!), the Connecticut Association of Public School Superintendents (CAPSS) decided to swing for the fences:
Schools Add Internet Etiquette, Safety to Coursework| The Committed Sardine - 1 views
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"The whole 'stranger danger' thing was very much driven by parental alarm,"
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The challenge, she and others say, is teaching kids that what they say and do online can have immediate, profound consequences — and that an offhand cruelty or indiscretion can last forever.
Cramming is indisputable proof of the superficiality of most classrooms in Am... - 0 views
'Closed' v. 'open' systems of knowing | Dangerously Irrelevant - 0 views
Instead of an AUP, how about an EUP (Empowered Use Policy)? | Dangerously Irr... - 0 views
Our technology messages are important | Dangerously Irrelevant - 0 views
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When we wag our fingers at students about inappropriate digital behaviors without concurrently and equally highlighting the benefits of being connected and online, we send the message that we are afraid of or don’t understand the technologies that are transforming everything around us.
Thinkers v. producers | Dangerously Irrelevant - 0 views
The Barriers To Using Social Media In Education (Part 1 of 2) - Edudemic - 1 views
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2012-13, The US department of Commerce ranked 55 industry sectors for their IT intensiveness, education ranked lowest (below coal mining). Education industry that bears the responsibility to prepare children for the world of tomorrow, itself is not ready to embrace the digital revolution with an open mind.
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Indeed there are some real risks attached with children using social media and it can’t be taken lightly. But there are also dangers in crossing a road. Do we tell our kids not to cross the road? No, we don’t! We hold their hand and tell them how to do it.
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So irrespective of whether or not you as an institution are ready to embrace the new digital ways of teaching, the revolution is already happening. If educators are left behind on social media, they will also fail in the simple role of being cultivators of curiosity.
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Digital document annotation on iPad, iPod Touch, or laptop | Dangerously Irrelevant - 0 views
Scare tactics, blocking sites can be bad for kids | InSecurity Complex - CNET News - 0 views
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Scaring children about the dangers of the Internet and blocking access to social-networking sites can do more harm than good, according to a report released Friday by a committee tasked by the U.S. government to explore online safety.
The Case For Social Media in Schools - 0 views
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Nobody would dispute that the risks of children using social media are real and not to be taken lightly. But there are also dangers offline. The teachers and parents who embrace social media say the best way to keep kids safe, online or offline, is to teach them.
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