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A collection of previews, reviews, blogposts and general web chatter regarding the PBS Frontline documentary film.
Updated on Mar 12, 08
Created on Jan 20, 08
Category: Schools & Education
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Mr Maher's List: Growing Up Online - Web Chatter
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An upcoming edition of PBS Frontline on "Growing Up Online" will feature Berkman Fellow danah boyd sharing her expertise on how young people are using the internet.
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Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men on the Internet? "Frontline" knows and, in an overblown sociology lesson, lets parents in on the potential predators, bullies and voyeurs keeping company with young Web surfers.
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The Internet does provide anothe way for kids to become victims - but it also provides so much more - communits of interest, connections, access to information, and knowledge on a global scale. Our challenge as parents (and communities) is to pay attention and be present and engaged as much as possible in their lives. I know that is not an “answer” but it is the best I can do…
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Also, from the press release I received, the documentary also intends to show ways teachers have been trying to teach today’s media-rich-media-savvy kids. Again, probably aimed towards non-minorities as most of the elementary schools and high schools I’ve visited here in Los Angeles don’t use computers, and neither do the students when they go home.
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Special note for USM Parents-I am trying to arrange a live chat to take place as this special is airing. It would be a place for us to have a conversation about the Frontline piece as we are watching.
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This will be good:
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Growing Up Online
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I think it will be very interesting to see their findings. I always find these types of programs very eye opening.
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Their next show is called Growing Up Online. It should be interesting to see how they cover the subject. Just in case you are wondering the didn’t forget to cover “online sexual predators.”
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An added bonus for me, as the NFCYM just accepted my proposal for a workshop on this very topic at the 2008 National Conference on Catholic Youth Ministry. What do you want to bet that clips and quotes from this documentary are going to find their way into more than a few of the workshops at this year’s conference?
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I wanted to see more reporting on what’s happening with technology in schools to put the two teachers at the New Jersey high school in a more macro context as well as more on how the internet has opened up new educational opportunities (beyond just cheating with Sparknotes).
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Looks like must-see TV to me
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Program your DVRs or TiVos!
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This week's episode, "Growing Up Online" looks especially interesting.
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This week we talk with Rachel Dretzin, producer of the upcoming Frontline documentary "Growing Up Online," about the potential risks, realities and misconceptions of the Internet.
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At Chatham High School, Michael LaSusa, a co-principal, concedes that the classroom must compete with the flash of cyberspace.
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Throughout the film, parents hover nervously around their children’s computers, teachers try hard not to wag their fingers at students who’d rather watch a podcast than write an essay, and academics try to understand what may be the greatest cultural shift in American history. But if you think the answers predictable, be prepared for the surprise of a teacher who thinks cheating might not be such a bad thing and a father who comes around to supporting the risque photographs that his teenage daughter had been secretly posting on the Web.
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Still, there's trouble in River City, or at least in affluent Chatham, N.J., where educators and parents struggle to keep up technologically with their plugged-in teens, sounding somewhat pitiful in the process.
At Chatham High School, some teachers talk about the computers and their accompanying bells and whistles as necessary to capture and keep the attention of a student body accustomed to living their lives online.
"To walk into a classroom that doesn't have any of that media must be like walking into a desert," says one, sounding a bit too excited about the modern-day equivalent of the overhead projector.
English teacher Rose Porpora, who's no techie, may have noticed that students have more attention issues than they did 30 years ago, and others are said to be worried enough about students producing their own work that they're insisting papers be written during class.
But their tech-savvy colleague, Steve Maher, is less concerned.
In fact, he's not entirely sure that students who "borrow and steal" material they find online for their papers should be penalized, arguing that this might be a workplace "skill that I want them to have."
Lordy.
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I hope the actual video lives up to expectations and provides some insight into how educators can merge with the cyber-savvy world in a positive and embracive way.
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- Mr Maher on 2008-01-19