ASCD Inservice: Would Your Admins Embrace MySpace? - The Diigo Meta page

• 09 Apr 09
  

  Heidi Chaves

  digitalcitizenship

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  Julia Hengstler

  We need to teach kids how to use things safely. You can run a band saw in middle school,
  but you can't go on the Internet."

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  Tim Sparacino

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  Tim Sparacino

  administration socialnetworks internetsafety

  • If we don't teach our students how to use social networking appropriately, who will?
  • "What are we going to ask on our tests when kids are walking in with Google in their pocket? Are they going to be better questions than we ask today?"
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  • • what about safety?

    • Moses provided studies from child safety groups and Harvard showing that "To Catch a Predator"-style crimes are extremely rare.

      
      

      "Kids are smarter than that. NSBA reports that 0.08 percent of our students have ever met a person they met online in real life without telling their parents." And Danah Boyd, in Wikinomics, says, "There are more articles published on predators than actual reported incidences online."

    • Five thousand 
      kids get sent to the hospital every year for scissor injuries, but how many schools have scissors in them? We need to teach kids how to use things safely. You can run a band saw in middle school,
      but you can't go on the Internet."
• 08 Apr 09
  

  Barbara Lindsey

  cybersafety k-12 manuela

  • "Our eyes are not on the ball," said Moses. "If we're really serious about child safety, it's not about what's going on online; it's what's going on in their immediate physical environment. Five thousand 
    kids get sent to the hospital every year for scissor injuries, but how many schools have scissors in them? We need to teach kids how to use things safely. You can run a band saw in middle school,
    but you can't go on the Internet."
  • Finally, the big question from this session: "Do you want to be a barrier to kids learning, or do you want to work with the learning they're already doing?"
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  • • We recently received an email from our superintendent all social networking sites and many other internet sites would be blocked. We are unable to view videos on our computers. My students are unable to play many games on the internet that are educational because of this. We have training in our school on how to teach our students to be safe but we never actually get to show how to use these social networks properly.
    • I'm an administrator at a large high school in an organization that content filters almost everything of potential value. (it's ironic that our students cannot access iTunes U to get Chemistry lectures from UC Berkeley in the classroom but they can access ebay and a Las Vegas gambling rewards page. I wonder if there would be to much of an outcry among the office weasels if those sites were blocked as well) One of the things that I am observing outside the school is how many of our teachers (as well as students) are using Facebook. I was actually able to set up a training during Spring Break using Facebook as a back-channel communications tool when our teachers were scattered all over the country. Why are we asking students (and staff) to step back into the previous century when they arrive at the schoolhouse door?

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