Digital Literacy: Skills for the 21st Century
Teachers wishing to foster digital literacy in their classrooms and states wishing to demonstrate it in their students face a common challenge: no comprehensive, established approach exists to guide the teaching, learning, and assessment of specific digital literacy skills. To begin addressing this challenge, we have developed this website, which was part of a two-year project funded by The Atlantic Philanthropies. The site articulates the skills comprising digital literacy with the goal of helping schools and districts implement a new approach to digital literacy teaching.
Technology not only changes how we write, but it also changes what writing is. Education will need to re-evaluate which writing skills teachers should pass to their students. Digital graphic writing is one genre students need to be fluent. Comic Life is the "word processor" of digital graphic writing.
Big Thinkers: Howard Gardner on Digital Youth [Video]
Howard Gardner, the founder of multiple-intelligences theory, discusses the challenges ethics and education face as digital media become more prevalent.
A guide to privacy on Facebook
Understand and control how you share information on Facebook.
Steering Clear of Cyber Tricks [Video]
Great 3-minute safety video from the YouTube Safety Team. "How to recognize and steer clear of tricks online" covers scams, phony free offers, phishing, pop-up contests etc. Spanish versions of the video are also available.
Privacy is Not Dead, Just Evolving
It's a brave new world. Unfortunately--continuing the literary allusion--Big Brother is watching. As technology makes more information more accessible, it also threatens to expose information that is not intended to be shared. Privacy is a concept that is caught in the middle of the struggle.
A lighter way to introduce Chatroulette, if you were giving a talk to parents who didn't know what it was.
Core Curriculum Projects | SimpleK12
Helps teachers incorporate technology into core curriculum and creates student portfolios online to manage student projects.
Playing and Staying Safe Online [Video]
Great 2-minute PSA produced by the YouTube safety team with tips for teens about privacy, password protection, cyberbullying and cybersafety. Spanish versions of the video are also available.
Rethinking Sex Offender Laws for Youths Showing Off Online
"But there is growing consensus among lawyers and legislators that the child pornography laws are too blunt an instrument to deal with an adolescent cyberculture in which all kinds of sexual pictures circulate on sites like MySpace and Facebook. " But there is growing consensus among lawyers and legislators that the child pornography laws are too blunt an instrument to deal with an adolescent cyberculture in which all kinds of sexual pictures circulate on sites like MySpace and Facebook.
Directory of Cybersafety Education Links
Inludes cybersafety resources in Spanish.
Staying Safe on YouTube [Video]
2.5 minute video from the YouTube Safety Team with tips for enjoying YouTube safely. Provides review of community guidelines and what is/is not allowed. Includes discussion of copyright, dealing with insulting comments, hiding objectionable words, privacy. Spanish versions of the video are also available.
Your digital footprint: 5 smart Facebook habits
Some great advice here! Some of you recognize these habits and call them basics, but many need to put them into practice. If this is old hat news to you then pass it on to the relatives you helped set up on Facebook. It just may keep them from being a Facebook victim.
ChatRoulette: Devil Incarnate or Accessible Public?
It's easy to see new Internet phenomena and panic, especially when the technology in question opens up a portal to all of the weird parts of the Internet. This is precisely what is happening around ChatRoulette, a new peer-to-peer webcam-based video chat site. Although the site was built by a 17-year-old Russian high school student to connect with other teens, nearly every adult who has visited the site runs screaming that this is a terrible space for young people. In some senses, they're right. But the more that they panic and talk about how bad this is for teens, the more teens get curious and want to check it out. The result? A phenomenon generated through fear.
Kids create their own avatars and complete missions that educate them about cyberbullying, social media and mobile safety. Part of an Australian non-profit social initiative (Smart Online/SafeOnline) that uses kids to deliver campaigns, aimed at educating their peers about cyberbullying/cybersafety issues. Registration is required and even though this is designed for use in Australia, anyone can play. A nice feature is that as kids complete missions, they get an email summarizing what they have learned. This is the same agency that created the video, Pants Down
12 Things You Can Do To Be Safer Online
A quick checklist to get you started on the road to Internet safety - from Adam Walsh, (America's Most Wanted) and Oprah.com
Posted from Diigo. The rest of Ad4dcss/Digital Citizenship group favorite links are here.
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