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Youth using phones to harass and spy on partners
A survey of 1200 teens and young adults (conducted by Knowledge Networks for the Associated Press and MTV) found that 22% of the digital youth reported they have been targeted for digital abuse, either through cell phone, email or internet monitoring by someone they were dating. The study found that teens from single parent households were at the highest risk at being targeted for abuse.
Kids cheating with tech but are schools cheating kids?
The results of a survey showing that 35 percent of middle school and high school students with cell phones have used them to cheat at school is indeed alarming. And perhaps more alarming is the finding that nearly a quarter of the students don't even think it's cheating. Cheating is cheating regardless of whether you use technology or old-fashioned paper notes. I'm appalled that kids may be using technology to cheat in school, but I'm just as appalled at how schools are cheating kids when it comes to technology.
Now anyone can build mobile websites with just their mobile phone
mobiSiteGalore creates history by launching a revolutionary free service that for the first time in the history of the Internet enables anyone to build mobile websites using just their basic mobile phone\n\n
What is the Digital Divide?
One way to measure digital access is to measure access to "broadband" Internet availability. Broadband access is the benchmark for Internet access. Broadband access means access to a robust and speedy connection sufficient to utilize the cutting edge technology of the day. But we should not mistake lack of broadband access with lack of Internet use.\n\nThere is currently a significant gap in broadband access between young and old, rich and poor, rural and urban. Over two-thirds of US households have broadband access as of May 2009 according to the Leichtman Research Group. But only 37 percent of households with income under $30,000 have broadband access compared to 89 percent of households with over $75,000 annual income according to the same study.
Offer a Digital Helping Hand
If you’re a Gadgetwise reader, you’re among the 23 percent of the world’s population that has Internet access. You’ve figured out how to download fresh news, print a boarding pass or tweet. But take a second and try to understand how it must feel to be undigital these days. There’s a grating discomfort that comes from being left out of everyone else’s secret language. I was reminded of how common this feeling is in my own hometown library last night, when I walked into a free public workshop on Facebook.
ACLU demands schools allow access to gay Websites
Students and parents are demanding Metro Nashville's public schools stop blocking access to Web sites about lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues. They complained to the American Civil Liberties Union, which on Wednesday gave Metro and Knox County schools an April 29 deadline to announce plans to open access to the non-sexual sites. A letter to the districts threatened lawsuits if they don't comply.
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The American Civil Liberties Union wants Tennessee districts to stop blocking non-sexual Web sites that advocate for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered individuals. Those include:
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Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays, www.pflag.org
• The Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network, www.glsen.org
• Human Rights Campaign, www.hrc.org
• Marriage Equality USA, www.marriageequality.org
• Religious Coalition for the Freedom to Marry, http://rcfm.dbdes.com/myshare.php
• The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, www.glaad.org
• Dignity USA (an organization for LGBT Catholics),
www.dignityusa.org
Industry Pitching Cellphones as a Teaching Tool
The cellphone industry has a suggestion for improving the math skills of American students: spend more time on cellphones in the classroom.
Tosa East student arrested, fined for repeated texting
Wauwatosa East High School resource officer who made the arrest says the student refused to stop texting during class Feb. 11 after a teacher told her to stop and the student told the resource officer she didn't have a phone. She continued denying she had a phone, forcing the resource officer to walk back and forth to the classroom twice and find other students who saw her using it, according to the report
Facebook for Parents
A course being offered at Stanford University that teaches parents "how to think" about Facebook. The web site includes five steps for parents and a newsletter.
ALA: Public Libraries Provide Kids with Vital Web Tools
Nearly 41 million school-age children in the United States have access to expensive online educational tools like Live Homework Help, thanks to their public libraries. In fact, some 83 percent of U.S. public libraries provide their community’s vital—and many rural areas, only—link to Web tools that might otherwise be out of their financial reach.
China's Internet Access
China now has the largest Internet population, with 253 million users. The U.S. is second with 223 million users. While 70 percent of Americans are online, only about 20 percent of Chinese are. Current growth trends indicate that, in the next few years,
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A greater proportion (than in the West) of Chinese
users get online via Internet cafes
or from work. China's Internet
environment is much different than the American one. The Chinese Internet is
heavily policed, with over 30,000 cyber cops blocking content that is
considered hostile to the communist dictatorship that has run the country for
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A greater proportion (than in the West) of Chinese
users get online via Internet cafes
or from work. China's Internet
environment is much different than the American one. The Chinese Internet is
heavily policed, with over 30,000 cyber cops blocking content that is
considered hostile to the communist dictatorship that has run the country for
the last 60 years. Chinese who say the wrong thing on message boards, chat
rooms or email, are subject to detection and punishment. Not so much for cyber
criminals. Some 52 percent of the Internet based criminality can be traced to
China (versus 21 percent to the United States). It is believed that the Chinese
government tolerates the cyber criminals, as long as these black hat geeks do
espionage, and Cyber War tasks for the government. - 2 more annotations...
America's Libraries adapted to digital age
The Internet was supposed to send America's public libraries the way of eight-track tapes and pay phones. But it turns out, they're busier than ever. Libraries have transformed themselves from staid, sleepy institutions into hip community centers offering
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As a group, libraries have embraced the digital age," said Lee Rainie, founding director of the Pew Internet & American Life Project, which has surveyed public attitudes toward libraries. "They've added collections, added software and hardware, upgraded the skills of their staff. A lot of institutions have had to change in the Internet age, but libraries still have a very robust and large constituency."
A December 2007 Pew survey found that more than half of Americans — 53% — visited a library in the past year. That's expected to grow as more people look for free resources and entertainment in a slowing economy.
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At the one-room Watha T. Daniel/Shaw Interim Library in the District of Columbia, books still line the shelves. But on one recent day, almost every adult at the library sat in front of a computer, surfing the Web, checking e-mail or visiting a social networking site.
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California's 'digital divide' persists - [Survey Report]
The use of computers and the Internet by Latinos and low-income Californians continues to lag behind other groups, according to a survey released Thursday by the Public Policy Institute of California.
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Slightly less than half of Latinos surveyed have home computers, compared to rates of 79 percent and above among black, Asian and white Californians, the survey found.
While computer usage by blacks and whites in California has increased, there's been a decline in computer usage by Latinos and Asians, though Asian use remains much higher than that of Latinos.
The drop appears to be correlated with income, with a sharp divide in computer usage between those making less than $40,000 and those making more. -
But Asians and Latinos have seen declines in use of computers. Latinos' computer use has declined from 64 percent to 58 percent since 2000, while Internet use remained unchanged. Asians' use of computers was much higher, but also declined from 91 percent to 81 percent; Internet use went from 84 percent to 80 percent.
Only 48 percent of Latinos have home computers compared with 86 percent of whites, 84 percent of Asians and 79 percent of blacks Californians, the institute reported.
Learning to Change-Changing to Learn [Video]
<b>Learning to Change Changing to Learn</b> Advancing K-12 Technology Leadership, Consortium for School Networking(COSN) Video. COSN was the recent recipient of a $450,000 grant from the MacArthur Foundation to explore policy and leadership barriers to Web 2.0.
Chicago Digital Youth Network
The primary goal of the Digital Youth Network Program is to develop a model program that enables urban youth to become discerning new media consumers and fluent media producers.To be full citizens today, youth must be engaged, articulate, critical and collaborative. Youth must become creators – designers, builders & innovators - who can envision new possibilities. Youth must also be able to organize, navigate and judge the large amounts of information and media to which they now have access. Full citizens today must be reflective thinkers who are committed to personal and community improvement.
Educators struggle with AUP enforcement
At a time when computers and internet access are seen as increasingly important tools for instruction, many school leaders are struggling with how best to enforce these policies in the event that students transgress them.
For teens, the future is mobile
Marketers convened in San Francisco this week to figure out how best to reach teens on the Internet. The answer: It's all about the mobile phone.
MySpace Catches iPhone Fever
Student work-arounds to blocked sites just got a little easier! MySpace jumped on the iPhone bandwagon, today unveiling an application that will deliver a mobile version of the social network to Apple's hugely popular smartphone.
Another reason why we need to emphasize digital citizenship rather than blocking access!
Rock Our World [Global Communication]
Phenomenal global collaboration project involving students from 15 countries. Teaching assignment is replicated across continents. Last year's project, Rock n Sol, was featured in the California K-12 Technology Showcase. This year's project, "Are You Game" focuses on digital storytelling. Students collaborate to compose music, make movies, podcasts, and experiments and met in face to face video-conferences. Using Garage Band, kids annually create a collaborative song that has been touched in every continent in the world. Each week, each group contributes 30 seconds with a specific musical instrument. Even blind students are involved in the project.
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