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22 Sep 09

Weblogg-ed » Don’t, Don’t, Don’t vs. Do, Do, Do

Will R. shares an experience of a school with a 9 page "Don't" policy for the internet.

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8-page Acceptable Use Policy
all the ways in which students (and teachers) could get themselves in trouble on the school network.
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- people shouldn’t be harassing one another, going around the filter, accessing shopping sites, accessing any sites that were “social in nature” and, the big one, downloading software to school computers for personal use. And much, much more.
- I’d rather take my chances with my phone and my computer at home. (About 90% of students in this district had access from home.)
- “Do use our network to connect to other students and adults who share your passions with whom you can learn.”
  
  “Do use our network to help your teachers find experts and other teachers from around the world.”
  
  “Do use our network to publish your best work in text and multimedia for a global audience.”
  
  “Do use our network to explore your own creativity and passions, to ask questions and seek answers from other teachers online.”
  
  “Do use our network to download resources that you can use to remix and republish your own learning online.”
  
  “Do use our network to collaborate with others to change the world in meaningful, positive ways.”

18 Jul 09

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The time magazine article about cyberporn where the facts ended up being totally disproven later.

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17 Jul 09

Ideas and Thoughts from an EdTech » Podcast 40 Going Global, Going Public

A slideshow and podcast talking about ways that schools can go public and go global using tech and the internet. I like many of his ideas and create a summary of the slideshow in my notes.

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- Slide 1 - Title
  Slide 2 - 3 Themes (Going Public, Dispelling Myths, Going Global)
  Slide 3 - Your Digital Id (how much do you think about it)
  Slide 4 - Clay Shirky Quote saying older ppl surprised it could happen and younger see it as totally normal.
  Slide 5 - Asking if you are ok with Google being your DI
  Slide 6 - or third party sites like RateMyTeacher.com
  Slide 7 - Google yourself and see what happens (manage your DI)
  Slide 11 - Costs $10 to own a domain name of your name
  Slide 12 - Become Clickable on the web
  Slide 13 - Nokomis Graduating Class 2008 gave domain names as class gift (should be earlier)
  Slide 15 - Students are doing this on their own (showcase of life and work)
  Slide 17 - Are schools teaching this? (not so much)
  Slide 19 - Myth #1 - Fliters protext childern (Tom Wood Example - hacked $84 million safety system bu Australian gov)
  Slide 21 - Fliters protest schools and adults, not students
  Slide 22 - Teachers are the best filters
  Slide 23 - Myth #2 Predators not a huge danger (likens to airplane crash - when it happens everyone hears, but so rare)
  Slide 25 - Graph - Perpetrators by Relationship to Victims 78% from parents.
  Slide 26 - Myth #3 Teaching strategies of Cyberbullying and Internet Safety are not effective (doesn't give a better howto though)
  Slide 27 - Myth #4 Kids are not internt savvy. Filtering truth or fiction
  Slide 28 - Photoshoped trick photo.
  Slide 29 - Who owns a site is important to teach students
  Slide 30 - Wikipedia is one ex that allows some transparency
  Slide 32 - Internet is more that just a site to "look stuff up"
  Slide 33 - ex of a using Google Earth to give personal tour of shanghai
  Slide 34 - ex. What does a dead shark smell like? Using web to make information personal
  Slide 35 - Ex "Thin Walls Classroom" is trying to merge to classroom even though geographically in diff. places
  Slide 36-39 - We showcase atheltics on field, artistic on stage, and academic on the internet. That's what a school can do with the interent.
  Slide 39-41 - Student posting online about school in off school hours. Why?
  Slide 38 - 44 - closing
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NetFamilyNews

Lots of kid-tech news here for parents. She takes larger stories and gives the summary

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Justin Reich - Better Strategies Needed for School Internet Access - washingtonpost.com

an editorial on how student know how to go right around a blocked site at school while teachers can't and so the blocks hurt teachers more

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students will readily share tips for evading filters,
Facebook group "How to access Facebook from school," which has 187,000 members.
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- Under the Children's Internet Protection Act of 2000, any school or library that uses federal funds to buy computers is required to install Internet filters.
- Filters prevent a great majority of teachers from gaining access to valuable online teaching tools and multimedia content
- Yet while teachers have their hands tied, students can easily wriggle into MySpace
- The best strategy for protecting students online is educating them about Internet citizenship and safety
- The other effective strategy for protecting youths online is supervision, both high-tech and old-fashioned.
- The millions of stimulus dollars to be spent on modernizing classrooms won't transform learning if students can't participate in the online forums that are reshaping the economy, journalism, government and society.
- Requiring more filtering would throw more resources at a failed approach.
- Another emerging and misguided strategy is requiring certain Web sites, such as social networks, to use age verification softwar

Technology Moral Panics: But Think Of The Children! | Techdirt

A look at the concept of "Moral Panic" from newspapers that leads to legislation

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in 1996 in which Time Magazine famously published a scare mongering article about porn online, now known as the Rimm Report
the report, which claimed that 83.5% of images online were porn was based on ridiculously faulty premises and research. It was almost entirely wrong.
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- And while Time Magazine came out of it looking bad, it didn't stop politicians from using the "moral panic" created by the article to push through the Communications Decency Act -- which after many years of wasted taxpayer money was eventually declared unconstitutional.
- newspaper basically overhypes a non-story into a "big scary trend" and almost immediately politicians start pushing for questionable "save the children!" legislation:
- I use two examples, the cyberporn panic of 1996 and the contemporary panic over online predators and MySpace, to demonstrate the links between media coverage and content legislation
- using outright incorrect or made up data, such as the idea that "50,000 sexual predators are online at any given time," a favorite of former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. The problem is that this number was made up out of nowhere
- 50,000 is a:
  
  "Goldilocks" figure -- "Not small and not large." He added that it was the same figure that was used by the media to describe the number of people killed annually by Satanic cults in the 1980s, and before that was cited as the number of children abducted by strangers each year in the 1970s.

16 Jul 09

House Rushes Through Bill To Make The Web More Dangerous For Kids | Techdirt

Review of a Bill from 2006 meant to protect kids online by blocking access at school

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ban social networks, chat rooms, instant messaging and some blog platforms from schools that took any federal money
DOPA (Deleting Online Predators Act) doesn't actually protect children at all. It's incredibly broad, and would effectively ban things including Amazon.com and LinkedIn from schools
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- Facebook is a closed system
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- why not fund better education programs that teach kids (and parents!) about the risks of being online

13 Jul 09

i-SAFE Inc.

i-SAFE Inc. is the worldwide leader in Internet safety education

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Internet Safety: The mistake of talking down to kids » Moving at the Speed of Creativity

His review of a Internet Safety Video and then suggesting some of his own tips for parents

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1- Have clear boundaries for all digital technologies: TVs, MP3 players, cell phones, land line phones, computers, DVD players, console game systems, handheld game systems.

2- Beware if/when your child quickly closes a computer window when you come into the room or look over their shoulder. If they have something to hide, you both need to talk about it openly and honestly.

3- Get an account on the social networking sites your kids are using, make them make you a “friend” so you can fully see their profile and connect to their friends.

4- If the social networking sites your child uses permit them to make a “limited profile,” have them choose that option.

5- Don’t lie about your age when you register for something online. (This goes for all kids as well as parents.)

6- Use kid-appropriate search engines for Internet research. Examples: Nettrekker, Yahoo Kids

7- Use kid-appropriate social networking websites (and still practice safe usage guidelines). Examples: Imbee, Webkinz, Club Penguin, Think.com

8- Be wary of advertising-intensive websites.

9- Be aware of proxy site availability and use. Ultimately there is NOT a technological solution for the “worst case” scenario of kids being kidnapped or running away from home. Open lines of communication with trusted and supportive adults is the best and only viable way to address this scenario.

10- Before kids go to a friend’s house and especially before a sleepover, discuss Internet safety just like you would discuss gun safety. Also ask the parents of the friend:

– What are your computer and Internet access rules at your house?

– Do you let your children get online in their bedroom?

– Do you have a content filter installed on your home computer or on your home network?

Digital Dialog - safe, appropriate, and fun uses of digital technologies!

A Ning social page for people talking about Internet Safety.

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Internet Safety and Social Networking for Parents

An outline of a presentation on Internet Safety and Social Networking for Parents

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Research finds positive parent behaviors and attitudes related to Internet safety and use » Moving at the Speed of Creativity

summary of a 2007 Cable in the Classroom research on parenting online. She provides some great links to additional data as well as giving the key points to help parents

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…85 percent of parents and legal guardians of children ages 6 to 18 who go online say they have talked to their child in the past year about how to be safe and smart online, and more than 93 percent say they have taken action to make sure the Web sites their kid visits meets with their approval.

Even though the vast majority (71 percent) of parents reported having experienced one or more Internet-related issues with their child within the past year, an overwhelming majority of parents also believe the Internet is helpful to their kids. Parents agreed that the Internet has helped their child to learn skills and information needed to succeed in school (81 percent), learn about different cultures and ideas (74 percent), access current events and news (68 percent), express him/herself creatively (65 percent), and connect to and collaborate with people with similar interests (53 percent).
because right now the average child in the United States is watching an average of 45 hours of media per week and spends only 17 hours with their parents.
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- This statistic is a key reason for boundaries on all types of media use,
- Over half of the survey’s respondents reported they use some type of filtering or blocking software at home to moderate web use.
- the more engaged parents are in talking with their children about Internet safety and ethics issues, the more positively they view the Internet’s value for learning
- The more parents are using the Internet and talking to their kids about its use, the more “enlightened” they will be to understand everything about the Internet is NOT evil.
- Parents need to maintain open lines of communication with their kids. “Open dialog” is the key.
- helping young people choose “gender neutral screennames.”
- The need to centrally locate the computer in the home was also emphasized by the presenters. This is a common theme in Internet safety presentations, but something I think is still overlooked or ignored by many parents.
- Parents who have provided their children with their own television set in their room many view a computer as “just another screen,” and thereby fail to grasp the negative potential of online interaction and website browsing.
- he Common Sense Media folks in the press conference maintained that 11-14 year old children are NOT ready for social networking websites like MySpace

Cable in the Classroom - Press Release

A 2007 study showing parents reaction to their kids use of the internet.

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85 percent of parents and legal guardians of children ages 6 to 18 who go online say they have talked to their child in the past year about how to be safe and smart online, and more than 93 percent say they have taken action to make sure the Web sites their kid visits meets with their approval.
(71 percent) of parents reported having experienced one or more Internet-related issues with their child within the past year, an overwhelming majority of parents also believe the Internet is helpful to their kids. Parents agreed that the Internet has helped their child to learn skills and information needed to succeed in school (81 percent), learn about different cultures and ideas (74 percent), access current events and news (68 percent), express him/herself creatively (65 percent), and connect to and collaborate with people with similar interests (53 percent).
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- being exposed to advertising or commercialism online (52 percent), spending too much time online (31 percent), spending too little time exercising or being outdoors because of the Internet (26 percent), being exposed to coarse language, or sexual or violent content online (24 percent), being exposed to misleading or bad information online (23 percent), and being distracted from schoolwork because of the Internet (20 percent).
- parents continue to have issues with their kids’ Web use, but those issues aren’t scaring them away from letting their kids go online
- 86 percent of highly-engaged parents said that the Internet helps their children learn about different cultures and ideas. Only 58 percent of less-engaged parents said the same. In terms of accessing current events and news, 82 percent of highly-engaged parents said the Internet was beneficial, whereas only 47 of less-engaged said it was helpful.

10 Jul 09

How Dangerous Is the Internet for Children? - New York Times

Great article on how some of our fears are overblown some under. Talks about the famous PBS special

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Sure, there are dangers. But they’re hugely overhyped by the media. The tales of pedophiles luring children out of their homes are like plane crashes: they happen extremely rarely, but when they do, they make headlines everywhere. The Internet is just another facet of socialization for the new generation; as always, common sense and a level head are the best safeguards.”
My thinking was this: a seven-year-old is so far from puberty, naked pictures don’t yet have any of the baggage that we adults associate with them. Sex has no meaning yet; the concept produces no emotional charge one way or another.
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- sexual-predator thing is way, way overblown,
- The data shows that giving out personal information over the Internet makes absolutely no difference when it comes to a child's vulnerability to predation.”
- “If someone asks me where I live, I’ll delete the ‘friend.’ I mean, why do you want to know where I live at?” says one girl
- Fearmongers often cite the statistic, from a 2005 study by the Crimes Against Children Research Center, that 1 in 7 children have received sexual propositions while online. But David Finkelhor, author of that report, notes that many of these propositions don’t come from Internet predators at all. “Considerable numbers of them are undoubtedly coming from other kids, or just people who are acting weird online,” he says.
- cyber-bullying is a far more realistic threat

Parent Workshop - Web Safety-Education Links

A nice collection of links and pdfs for parents.

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08 Jul 09

APA Press Release: ‘Internet Predator’ Stereotypes Debunked in New Study

A great summary of the study posted by the American Psychological Association. Hard data included as well

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most Internet sex offenders are not adults who target young children by posing as another youth, luring children to meetings, and then abducting or forcibly raping them,
most online sex offenders are adults who target teens and seduce victims into sexual relationships.
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- youth most vulnerable to online sex offenders have histories of sexual or physical abuse, family problems, and tendencies to take risks both on- and offline
- "Online 'Predators' and Their Victims: Myths, Realities and Implications for Prevention," published in the February/March issue of American Psychologist
- "The things that we hear and fear and the things that actually occur may not be the same. The newness of the environment makes it hard to see where the danger is."
- adolescents' use of popular social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook do not appear to increase their risk of being victimized by online predators.
- it is risky online interactions such as talking online about sex to unknown people that increases vulnerability,
- Current educational efforts that are focused on discouraging children from giving out or posting personal information, warning about deception online, and urging parents to monitor their children may not be effective
- more effort should be directed at helping teens appreciate the drawbacks and inappropriateness of romantic relationships with adults
- Internet offenders pretended to be teenagers in only 5 percent of the crimes studied by researchers.
  Nearly 75 percent of victims who met offenders face-to-face did so more than once.
  Online sex offenders are seldom violent, and cases involving stalking or abduction are very rare.
  Youth who engaged in four or more risky online behaviors were much more likely to report receiving online sexual solicitations. The online risky behaviors included maintaining buddy lists that included strangers, discussing sex online with people they did not know in person and being rude or nasty online.
  Boys who are gay or are questioning their sexuality may be more susceptible to Internet-initiated sex crimes than other populations. Researchers found boys were the victims in nearly one-quarter of criminal cases, and most cases included facts that suggested victims were gay or questioning their sexuality.

Reviews and Ratings for Families - Movies, TV, Web Sites, Games, Books and Music | Common Sense Media

Common Sense Media is dedicated to improving the media and entertainment lives of kids and families.

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23 Feb 08

New Report on Internet Predators | 2¢ Worth

great new stats on how safe kids really are online.

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02 May 07

YouTube - Think before you post

Public Commercial for Posting Images online. good education but scary tone

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Weblogg-ed » Don’t, Don’t, Don’t vs. Do, Do, Do

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Ideas and Thoughts from an EdTech » Podcast 40 Going Global, Going Public

NetFamilyNews

Justin Reich - Better Strategies Needed for School Internet Access - washingtonpost.com

Technology Moral Panics: But Think Of The Children! | Techdirt

House Rushes Through Bill To Make The Web More Dangerous For Kids | Techdirt

i-SAFE Inc.

Internet Safety: The mistake of talking down to kids » Moving at the Speed of Creativity

Digital Dialog - safe, appropriate, and fun uses of digital technologies!

Internet Safety and Social Networking for Parents

Research finds positive parent behaviors and attitudes related to Internet safety and use » Moving at the Speed of Creativity

Cable in the Classroom - Press Release

How Dangerous Is the Internet for Children? - New York Times

Parent Workshop - Web Safety-Education Links

APA Press Release: ‘Internet Predator’ Stereotypes Debunked in New Study

Reviews and Ratings for Families - Movies, TV, Web Sites, Games, Books and Music | Common Sense Media

New Report on Internet Predators | 2¢ Worth

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