This month, Facebook introduced Places, which adds some Foursquare-like features to its social network. If Places catches on with Facebook’s 500 million users, many think it could bring location-sharing to the masses.
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The Tell-All Generation Learns When Not To, at Least Online - NYTimes.com - 4 views
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"people in their 20s exert more control over their digital reputations than older adults, more vigorously deleting unwanted posts and limiting information about themselves."
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Good article to balance the hysteria and myths that us oldies know what's up and the kids aren't informed.
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It is good news about the older teenagers, and those in their 20's however as noted in the article "Younger teenagers were not included in these studies, and they may not have the same privacy concerns. But anecdotal evidence suggests that many of them have not had enough experience to understand the downside to oversharing". These kids need to be our target audience when talking about cybersafety etc, as like with many other facets of a teenagers life, they don't necessarily have the "fear factor" and understand the long term risks.
25 More Tech Tips and Tricks - NYTimes.com - 5 views
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Handy things you may know, but may also find one you didn't - good for beginners as well.
Location Sites Experiment to Attract Mainstream Users - NYTimes.com - 1 views
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Ms. Aley has chosen to use the app to also reveal her location to her Facebook friends and Twitter followers. The rewards make using the app worthwhile, she said, and the privacy trade-off “really never crossed my mind.”
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I like how this picture mimics that of the SixthSense video - makes the reality that much closer and shows some of the steps along the way - giving up information to get discounts.
Shopkick App Pushes Bargains, Aisle by Aisle - NYTimes.com - 2 views
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Another step in the New WWW- Whatever, Whenever, Wherever
Preoccupations - Texting in Meetings - It Means 'I Don't Care' - NYTimes.com - 8 views
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AS technological devices have become more portable and more popular, they've enhanced our connectedness at work. But they have also led to a greater degree of incivility - a trend that is damaging our workplace relationships.
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Increasingly schools are having to deal with this issue, in classrooms with students and with colleagues in meetings. At conferences delegates seem to be hiding behind their screens and I wonder what level of engagement is taking place between them and the speaker/s? What messages are being sent and received..on a number of levels?
What if the Secret to Success Is Failure? - NYTimes.com - 6 views
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Read through this article and highlight or comment on things that you think would resonate with your students or colleagues.
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He is a big thinker, always chasing new ideas, and a conversation with him can feel like a one-man TED conference, dotted with references to the latest work by behavioral psychologists and management gurus and design theorists.
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Obviously a school leader who dosn't mind being different! Nice to see.
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You don't make progress by doing the same thing as everyone else!
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in America that if you worked hard and you showed real grit, that you could be successful,” he said. “Strangely, we’ve now forgotten that. People who have an easy time of things, who get 800s on their SAT’s, I worry that those people get feedback that everything they’re doing is great. And I think as a result, we are actually setting them up for long-term failure.
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I know that we are actively working with parents to realise that their child does not have to be 'happy' al of the time. Making mistakes, experiencing failure and learning what 'not' to do are valuable aspects of education.
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Fantastic article highlighting great pedagogy, true leadership and richer measures
The Future of Reading - Literacy Debate - Online, R U Really Reading? - Series - NYTime... - 0 views
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Online, R U Really Reading?
Who'sGot the Pranks on the Internet? - NYTimes.com - 1 views
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David Pogue does a round-up of April Fool's prank sites that could be used to catch students off-guard and create Ah-Ha's about info on the Web.
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