This model program for "restorative justice" is used by trained 8th grader facilitators at Del Mar Middle School to handle school incidents that would previously have been grounds for student suspensions. Cyberbullying is included in the restorative justice program. Students make amends for their actions, learn from their mistakes and become part of the solution, rather than the problem.
Steve Balkam, FOSI: Digital Citizenship includes not just the rights of free expression (as important as that is) and the right to remain safe online but also duties and responsibilities of a full active and engaged citizen, respecting others' rights and looking out for other cyber citizens in a civil and respectful manner.
Excerpts from conversation about National Broadband Plan adoption.
A range of research reports suggest that digital literacy should be a key part of curricular developments in both primary and secondary schools. Digital literacy is about far more than functional ICT skills: it requires support for children to access, create and communicate using ICT, as well as to be evaluative and critical about the influences and impacts of new media.
Howard Gardener, the founder of multiple-intelligences theory discusses the challenges ethics and education face as digital media become more prevalent. Through his GOODPLAY PROJECT, he examines the ethical sense of young people. He looks at five elements related to what it means to be ethical with new media: sense of identity, sense of privacy, sense of ownership/authorship, trustworthiness and credibility, and what it means to participate in a community.
CELLT Center for Experiential Learning, Leadership and Technology.
Demonstration of eportfolios. Students provide examples of work representing these skills at the beginning, and at the end, of an academic term. By comparing their work at the two points in time and reflecting on how it has changed and what they have learned, they develop better analytic and presentation skills. The faculty and students work together to use ePortfolios to improve the students' learning experiences
Innovative examples of how technology can help kids learn to read, learn to write, learn to think and better determine what's worth reading and what's not, what's worth writing and what's not.
Silvia Tolisano has provided us with a helpful list of SKYPE JOBS FOR STUDENTS.
Kids learn the research process through an interactive game board designed for and provided by the Kentucky Virtual Library.
"In partnership with Topics Education, Microsoft is sponsoring an education initiative that supports teachers' needs for addressing digital citizenship and helping students understand how to handle and share digital content and respect for an authors/students intentions for sharing creative work. Topics Education developed a comprehensive turnkey, end-to-end curriculum that provides educators with teaching resources, an experiential student curriculum and tools to teach students about creative rights so that it is meaningful and relevant to their lives and achieving their potential."
Resources to help students nationwide understand the importance of privacy, security and online reputation. Includes presentations, downloadable curriculum and resources in English and Spanish.
Teacher notes that the specific criteria and descriptions listed on the rubric have been effective at helping students to improve the posts they have been writing. A google docs version is posted here: http://bit.ly/ckQOeR
Workshop materials here were designed to teach school leaders about social networking. There are both Trainer agendas and Workshop participant agendas here, so that users could easily use the materials to train others. Links to additional support materials can be found on the sidebar/Quickstart section.
Lesson Plans and materials that introduce students to a way of economic thinking.
In this activity, students become international traders from one of six continents: Asia, Africa, Australia, Europe, North America or South America. They negotiate prices with buyers and sellers from the other continents. Sometimes they are thwarted from trading by barriers, and they come to understand how the IMF, by fostering free trade, enhances the flow of goods and services worldwide.
Chat with authors, record podcasts, and cover reference—all online and for free—with Skype. - [School Library Journal, Jan 08]
As a joint effort of CDE, CTAP and CUE, the Student Technology Showcase serves to inform parents, teachers, administrators, legislators and higher education representatives about curriculum-based student technology projects being undertaken in Kindergarten through grade 12.
Here is an ambitious effort by the Saddleback Valley Unified School District [California], which has 39 schools in the district. They have their own Online-TV Station! Check out their news section and how they presented AERIES to their teachers. Very clever.