Connect Safely |Online Safety 3.0: Empowering and Protecting Youth | Commentaries - Staff

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17 Dec 09

Clint Hamada
- ust as in the real world, it’s neither possible nor desirable to completely isolate young people from adults, so the best protection against this type of manipulation and exploitation is critical thinking (greatly aided by engaged parenting)
  - Clint Hamada on 2009-12-17
    
    Engaged parenting is the key.
- Aggressive behavior increases risk while kindness, empathy, and good citizenship reduce it.
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- - “Sadly, too many parents think that using technology to track their children’s keystrokes or restrict access to certain Web sites is sufficient parenting. It is not. Parents must be involved with their children’s virtual lifestyles – developing trust, being aware of any potential problems, learning about the technologies they use, and communicating often.”
  - a lot of important informal learning is going on while “they’re online, texting, or playing video games.”
  - a new media literacy that’s as mindful of what’s said, produced and uploaded as what’s read, consumed, and downloaded, mindful of one's behavior and impact within a community.
16 Dec 09

Phil Taylor
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15 Dec 09

Mike Boulanger
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13 Dec 09

Ty Yost
"Both the Internet and the way young people use technology are constantly changing, but Internet safety messages change very slowly if at all. A few years ago, some of us in the Net safety community started talking about how to adjust our messaging for the much more interactive “Web 2.0.” And we did so, based on the latest research as it emerged. But even those messages are starting to get a bit stale…."

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David Bell
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07 Dec 09

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03 Dec 09

Donald Burkins
It’s time for Online Safety 3.0. Why 3.0 and why now?

The online-safety messages most Americans are getting are still pretty much one-size-fits-all and focused largely on adult-to-child crime, rather than on what the growing bodies of both Net-safety and social-media research have found.
Online Safety 2.0 began to develop messaging around the
peer-to-peer part of online safety, mostly harassment and cyberbullying and, increasingly, sexting by cellphones, but it still focuses on technology not behavior as the primary risk and characterizes youth almost without exception as
potential victims. Version 2.0 fails to recognize youth agency: young people as participants, stakeholders, and leaders in an increasingly participatory environment online and offline.

To be relevant to young people, its intended beneficiaries, Net safety needs to respect youth agency, embrace the technologies they love, use social media in the instruction process, and address the positive reasons for safe use of social technology. It’s not safety from bad outcomes but safety for positive ones. ... Safety is essential but only part of what we want for the people who are going to run this world!

Online Safety 3.0 enables youth enrichment and empowerment. Its main components – new media literacy and digital citizenship – are both protective and enabling. Ideally from the moment they first use computers and cellphones, children are learning how to function mindfully, safely and effectively as individuals and community members, as consumers, producers, and stakeholders.

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26 Nov 09

Stephanie Affield
23 Nov 09

Lori Sheldon
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"Both the Internet and the way young people use technology are constantly changing, but Internet safety messages change very slowly if at all. A few years ago, some of us in the Net safety community started talking about how to adjust our messaging for the much more interactive “Web 2.0.” And we did so, based on the latest research as it emerged. But even those messages are starting to get a bit stale….

Now it’s time for Online Safety 3.0."

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22 Nov 09

Peggy Whyte
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Tod Baker
Online Safety 3.0 - promoting critical thinking, mindful producing, and the ethics, responsibilities, and rights of citizenship - is just that: empowering because it's protective.

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- Version 2.0 fails to recognize youth agency: young people as participants, stakeholders, and leaders in an increasingly participatory environment online and offline.
  - Tod Baker on 2009-11-22
    
    They had little if any ownership.
- To be relevant to young people, its intended beneficiaries, Net safety needs to respect youth agency, embrace the technologies they love, use social media in the instruction process, and address the positive reasons for safe use of social technology. It’s not safety from bad outcomes but safety for positive ones.
  - Tod Baker on 2009-11-22
    
    Does this axiom, "It's not safety from bad outcomes but safety for postive ones." drive decisions?
  - JOSEPH SAVIRIMUTHU on 2009-12-02
    
    I am not really sure whether Web 3.0 is conceptually different from Web 2.0. Are kids not empowered? Where is the evidence?
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- - We invite you to help us get Online Safety 3.0 – enabling youth to participate fully and constructively in a society that functions both online and offline – off the ground.
  - Young people are far more likely to be harmed by peers or the consequences of their own online behavior than by adult criminals.
    Tod Baker on 2009-11-22
    
    When not face-to-face even nice people can turn into bullies online. People tend to lose their inhibitions when online. I see it with my students every year. I see it on Facebook. I see it in the comments of news online, especially sports news. Sometimes it seems online activity brings out the worst in people.
  - “It’s not about access. It’s about what kids do when interacting online.”
    Tod Baker on 2009-11-22
    
    That's why parents and teachers need to be proactive.
  - To be effective, the Internet safety community has to find ways to tailor its messages, based on particular risk factors.
    Tod Baker on 2009-11-22
    
    Remembe the "Just say no." campaign. Effective for some. Ineffective for many.
  - And young people themselves need to be part of the discussion, not just to listen and parrot what adults tell them to say, but to help think through the issues, help adults understand the difference between real and imagined dangers, how youth themselves are dealing with the real ones (research shows a good deal of intelligence on their part), and help adults come up with messages that will resonate with their peers.
    Tod Baker on 2009-11-22
    
    Not only does this make our plans and actions more relevant and meaningful but interesting as well.
  - Another very important factor we’d add is online disinhibition, the effect on people’s behavior of not having visual cues and voice inflection from the people to whom that behavior’s directed. Inhibitions break down, which can be good but also bad. It can have the effect of reducing empathy and civility.
    Tod Baker on 2009-11-22
    
    Right on. Happens all the time. Very insightful.
  - Online security must be an integral part of online-safety education. Not only is it a great set of training wheels for digital literacy, it 1) trains users to protect their identities and property with prevention and repair software tools for computers, mobile phones and wired & wireless networks, and 2) teaches the nuts and bolts of social engineering and influencing, lessons that will protect a lot more than computers in people’s lives.
    Tod Baker on 2009-11-22
    
    I feel this is something that I must always strive to stay on top of. I'm not even sure I completely can/do protect myself. Sometimes I get lazy...
  - That’s why we teach kids to swim, so they can enjoy and benefit from swimming and not fear the water. In the same way, as Internet users mature, we need to pull back on the technological controls in favor of self control.
    Tod Baker on 2009-11-22
    
    And what do we tend to do when they jump into the deep end? Drain the pool, right? We take away their IT priviledges. Does that empower students?
  - The best filter for protecting kids runs in their heads not on devices.
    Tod Baker on 2009-11-22
    
    But it's so easy just to ban the devices...
  - we need to consider all four types of Internet safety:
    
    * Physical safety – freedom from physical harm
    * Psychological safety – freedom from cruelty, harassment, and exposure to potentially disturbing material
    * Reputational and legal safety – freedom from unwanted social, academic, professional, and legal consequences that could affect you for a lifetime
    * Identity, property, and community safety – freedom from theft of identity and property and attacks against networks and online communities at local, national, and international levels.
    Tod Baker on 2009-11-22
    
    A framework to guide teaching and learning. It makes "online safety" easier to understand and approach.
  - This is important to understand because “safety” and addressing risk aren’t just online propositions; they’re about online and offline experiences and more about adolescent development and behavior than about technology.
    Tod Baker on 2009-11-22
    
    Yes! It's not about the technology. It's about adolescent development and behavior or, in other words, LITERACY.
  - In the multiplayer online game World of Warcraft, educators who play the game tell us, players are analyzing statistics and probabilities, strategizing, learning how to save currency, budget, and market, and exploring supply & demand – learning economics, math, and sociology.
    Tod Baker on 2009-11-22
    
    I'd say this is one of the most popular games at IST. Students caught playing this game during school hours get their IT priviledges suspended.
  - Because young people are increasingly engaged in authentic learning outside of school with social media, there is a growing gap between formal learning and informal learning, which increasingly compromises school’s meaningfulness for many youth. One student told a researcher that “if you’re doing it for a grade, it doesn’t really count.”
    Tod Baker on 2009-11-22
    
    Contingent motivators (grades) dull thinking and reduce creativity. Reserver them for mechanical jobs not creative. Students see grades as carrots and sticks.
  - “Rather than assuming that education is primarily about preparing for jobs and careers,” the Digital Youth researchers ask, “what would it mean to think of education as a process of guiding kids’ participation in public life more generally, a public life that includes social, recreational, and civic engagement?”
    Tod Baker on 2009-11-22
    
    Education is primarily about preparing for life in a democracy.
  - Online Safety 3.0 is not just safety from (risk and danger) but safety for maximizing the benefits of active netizenship.
    Tod Baker on 2009-11-22
    
    Worth repeating.
  - When people see themselves as community stakeholders – citizens – they behave as citizens because they tend to care about the well-being of the community itself and the individual and collective behaviors that affect it.
    Tod Baker on 2009-11-22
    
    Do parents and teachers need to view themselves as citizens of the same community their youth belong to?
21 Nov 09

Travis True
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Dianne Krause
Both the Internet and the way young people use technology are constantly changing, but Internet safety messages change very slowly if at all. A few years ago, some of us in the Net safety community started talking about how to adjust our messaging for the much more interactive “Web 2.0.” And we did so, based on the latest research as it emerged. But even those messages are starting to get a bit stale….

Now it’s time for Online Safety 3.0.

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20 Nov 09

Dean Mantz
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Karl Fisch
"To be relevant to young people, its intended beneficiaries, Net safety needs to respect youth agency, embrace the technologies they love, use social media in the instruction process, and address the positive reasons for safe use of social technology. It’s not safety from bad outcomes but safety for positive ones."

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16 Nov 09

Brian Gover
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14 Nov 09

Joan Belknap
A thorough website discussing online safety for adults to use in working with students or their children.

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12 Nov 09

mark grabe

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Online Safety 3.0: Empowering and Protecting Youth

Both the Internet and the way young people use technology are constantly changing, but Internet safety messages change very slowly if at all. A few years ago, some of us in the Net safety community started talking about how to adjust our messaging for the much more interactive “Web 2.0.” And we did so, based on the latest research as it emerged. But even those messages are starting to get a bit stale….

Now it’s time for Online Safety 3.0.

10 Nov 09

Andrea Zellner
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09 Nov 09

Raymond Lai
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06 Nov 09

Emily Vickery
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02 Nov 09

Kay Tibbs
14 Oct 09

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01 Oct 09

Ms. Stern
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- More likely risks
- “not all youth are equally at risk”
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- - More than one type of online safety
  - * Physical safety – freedom from physical harm
    * Psychological safety – freedom from cruelty, harassment, and exposure to potentially disturbing material
    * Reputational and legal safety – freedom from unwanted social, academic, professional, and legal consequences that could affect you for a lifetime
    * Identity, property, and community safety – freedom from theft of identity and property and attacks against networks and online communities at local, national, and international levels.
  - Since, as the research shows, aggressive behavior significantly increases risk,
  - a new media literacy that’s as mindful of what’s said, produced and uploaded as what’s read, consumed, and downloaded,
  - When people see themselves as community stakeholders – citizens – they behave as citizens because they tend to care about the well-being of
28 Sep 09

Deborah Goodman
digitalcitizenship
04 Sep 09

Gary Bertoia
Both the Internet and the way young people use technology are constantly changing, but Internet safety messages change very slowly if at all. A few years ago, some of us in the Net safety community started talking about how to adjust our messaging for the much more interactive "Web 2.0." And we did so, based on the latest research as it emerged. But even those messages are starting to get a bit stale….

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- Both the Internet and the way young people use technology are constantly changing, but Internet safety messages change very slowly if at all. A few years ago, some of us in the Net safety community started talking about how to adjust our messaging for the much more interactive “Web 2.0.” And we did so, based on the latest research as it emerged. But even those messages are starting to get a bit stale….
30 Aug 09

Donna DesRoches
Both the Internet and the way young people use technology are constantly changing, but Internet safety messages change very slowly if at all. A few years ago, some of us in the Net safety community started talking about how to adjust our messaging for the much more interactive “Web 2.0.” And we did so, based on the latest research as it emerged. But even those messages are starting to get a bit stale….

Now it’s time for Online Safety 3.0.

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Mary Worrell
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Chad Lehman
A position statement on Internet-safety education to date and where the co-directors of ConnectSafely feel it needs to go - soon, if not yesterday

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Howard Rheingold
The online-safety messages most Americans are getting are still pretty much one-size-fits-all and focused largely on adult-to-child crime, rather than on what the growing bodies of both Net-safety and social-media research have found. Online safety 2.0 began to develop messaging around the peer-to-peer part of online safety, mostly harassment and cyberbullying and, increasingly, sexting by cellphones, but it still focuses on technology not behavior as the primary risk and characterizes youth almost without exception as potential victims. Version 2.0 fails to recognize youth agency: young people as participants, stakeholders, and leaders in an increasingly participatory environment online and offline. Though its aim is certainly positive, its message, like that of Version 1.0, is largely negative, lacks context, and is largely irrelevant to youth.

To be relevant to young people, its intended beneficiaries, Net safety needs to respect youth agency, embrace the technologies they love, use social media in the instruction process, and address the positive reasons for safe use of social technology. It’s not safety from bad outcomes but safety for positive ones.

Think about playgrounds. Certainly they have to be safe, but do we want our children to play in places that are only safe? As educator Barry Joseph asked recently in the Global Kids blog, don’t we want them to be really fun and compelling, to stimulate and enrich our kids’ physical and social development? Safety is essential but only part of what we want for the people who are going to run this world!

Online Safety 3.0 enables youth enrichment and empowerment. Its main components – new media literacy and digital citizenship – are both protective and enabling.

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Kathy Maske
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Dean Shareski
This looks like a much more positive approach to internet safety that talks about enabling and protecting, not simply protecting.

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27 Aug 09

Kathy Lawrence
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- Because young people are increasingly engaged in authentic learning outside of school with social media, there is a growing gap between formal learning and informal learning, which increasingly compromises school’s meaningfulness for many youth. One student told a researcher that “if you’re doing it for a grade, it doesn’t really count.”
  
  That is at the very least a tremendous missed opportunity for education, for young people, and for the teaching of safe media use. Right now, young people are on their own with today's media. School not only has little input in their use of social media, it's blocking that use because of online-safety concerns. Most teens are probably just fine with the first part of that equation, but think about it this way: For generations, educators have enriched students' experience of the media of their times, increasing the media's value for youth as well as society by highlighting the best in literature, governance, art, activism, and citizenship. What today's schools are too worried to consider is that, in the process of adding the value of formal education to social media, they can bring to students' use of those media the very skills that ensure constructive and productive writing, producing, and collaborating with social media.
  
  “Rather than assuming that education is primarily about preparing for jobs and careers,” the Digital Youth researchers ask, “what would it mean to think of education as a process of guiding kids’ participation in public life more generally, a public life that includes social, recreational, and civic engagement?”
- What we are sure of is that, to be relevant to youth, online safety going forward has to be empowering not restrictive. Online Safety 3.0 – promoting critical thinking, mindful producing, and the ethics, responsibilities and rights of citizenship – is just that: empowering because it’s protective. This is protection that lasts a lifetime.
23 Aug 09

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Public Stiky Notes

Tod Baker on 2009-11-22

They had little if any ownership.
JOSEPH SAVIRIMUTHU on 2009-12-02

I am not really sure whether Web 3.0 is conceptually different from Web 2.0. Are kids not empowered? Where is the evidence?
Tod Baker on 2009-11-22

Does this axiom, "It's not safety from bad outcomes but safety for postive ones." drive decisions?
Clint Hamada on 2009-12-17

Engaged parenting is the key.
Tod Baker on 2009-11-22

When not face-to-face even nice people can turn into bullies online. People tend to lose their inhibitions when online. I see it with my students every year. I see it on Facebook. I see it in the comments of news online, especially sports news. Sometimes it seems online activity brings out the worst in people.
Tod Baker on 2009-11-22

That's why parents and teachers need to be proactive.
Tod Baker on 2009-11-22

Remembe the "Just say no." campaign. Effective for some. Ineffective for many.
Tod Baker on 2009-11-22

Not only does this make our plans and actions more relevant and meaningful but interesting as well.
Tod Baker on 2009-11-22

Right on. Happens all the time. Very insightful.
Tod Baker on 2009-11-22

I feel this is something that I must always strive to stay on top of. I'm not even sure I completely can/do protect myself. Sometimes I get lazy...
Tod Baker on 2009-11-22

And what do we tend to do when they jump into the deep end? Drain the pool, right? We take away their IT priviledges. Does that empower students?
Tod Baker on 2009-11-22

But it's so easy just to ban the devices...
Tod Baker on 2009-11-22

A framework to guide teaching and learning. It makes "online safety" easier to understand and approach.
Tod Baker on 2009-11-22

Yes! It's not about the technology. It's about adolescent development and behavior or, in other words, LITERACY.
Tod Baker on 2009-11-22

I'd say this is one of the most popular games at IST. Students caught playing this game during school hours get their IT priviledges suspended.
Tod Baker on 2009-11-22

Contingent motivators (grades) dull thinking and reduce creativity. Reserver them for mechanical jobs not creative. Students see grades as carrots and sticks.
Tod Baker on 2009-11-22

Education is primarily about preparing for life in a democracy.
Tod Baker on 2009-11-22

Worth repeating.
Tod Baker on 2009-11-22

Do parents and teachers need to view themselves as citizens of the same community their youth belong to?

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