Teachable Moment: Your Digital Foot Print
A blogger recounts the story of a woman's search for a housekeeper. After checking the work resumes of the most promising candidates, she googled each person's name. The results illustrate the need to manage your personal identity online and could be used as a good teaching example for kids.
Schools Left in the Dust on the Social Media Highway
I recently read an article with the sub-title “Facebook, other sites evolving faster than school rules can address” in which they discuss the ways schools use discipline, policies and guidelines to enforce what is acceptable and not acceptable when it comes to what student post on social media web sites.
Social Media and Digital Citizenship
I recently read an article with the sub-title “Facebook, other sites evolving faster than school rules can address” in which they discuss the ways schools use discipline, policies and guidelines to enforce what is acceptable and not acceptable when it comes to what student post on social media web sites.
Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out: Kids Living and Learning with New Media
Conventional wisdom about young people's use of digital technology often equates generational identity with technology identity: today's teens seem constantly plugged in to video games, social networks sites, and text messaging. Yet there is little actual research that investigates the intricate dynamics of youth's social and recreational use of digital media. Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out fills this gap, reporting on an ambitious three-year ethnographic investigation into how young people are living and learning with new media in varied settings-at home, in after school programs, and in online spaces.
Internet safety, identity theft, cyberbullying [Video Contest]
You’re on the Web all the time: updating profiles, blogging, texting, downloading, gaming and shopping. You’ve heard, read or seen things about cyberbullying, sexting, scams, spam and posting stuff you shouldn’t. And maybe you’ve learned a thing or two about how to be online and be safe and responsible while you’re there. Share your story with Trend Micro. Your video could be worth $10,000!
Teachable Moment: A Hideous Display of Abusing Social Networking
The author illustrates how he went about authenticating whether a Twitter plea for help (buried under rubble in Chile) was for real or a hoax. Great teachable moment for showing kids not to believe everything they read. This story could be used to launch a classroom discussion.
Microsoft Online Safety: Practice Cyberethics
Based on common sense and good judgment, cyberethics also includes obeying laws that apply to online behavior. When you practice cyberethics, you are more likely to have a safer and enjoyable Internet experience. Microsoft provides a page of tips and suggestions suitable for both adults and kids.
Digital Citizenship articles from ISTE Journals: L&L, JRTE, and JCTE
The following articles originally appeared in one of ISTE's publications: our flagship magazine, Learning & Leading with Technology (L&L), the Journal of Research on Technology in Education, or the Journal of Research in Computing Education. This sampling of articles dealing with digital citizenship and related issues will be available to the general public for a limited time.
Calif. appeals court OKs cyberbullying suit
A California appeals court ruled that Internet threats posted on a 15-year-old boy's Web site are not protected free speech in what may be the state's first case to examine the boundaries between free expression and cyber-bullying. The appeals court majority ruled that the case can return to a lower court for trial because the Internet postings revealed a harmful intent that is not protected by the right of free speech.
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