Excellent talk at TEDx. Rosalind Wiseman addresses the complex problem of bullying in schools, and how administrators and parents need to support kids to make schools the safe places that they should be.
Teachers, administrators and bullying experts will relate!
A well-documented week of middle school activities in celebration of Digital Citizenship Week.
NCDC conducted a survey of International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) members last April to gain insight into educators’ understanding of digital citizenship and classroom needs. Results were released this week and are summarized here.
See the Microsoft digital citizenship site at: http://www.digitalcitizenshiped.com/
Middle School curriculum at this wiki is aligned to the 9 elements of digital citizenship descibed by Bailey & Ribble
The curriculum is designed to be interactive, discussion filled and allow students to learn through hands-on and scenario activities. On this site you'll find a resource booklet for both educators and students that can be downloaded in PDF form, presentations to accompany the lesson and animated videos to help frame the conversation. "
Collinsville IL web site with cybersafety curriculum resources for grades K-8. Links are a composite representation of resources gathered from around the web. Six schools from within the district provide individualized interpretations of the content to be presented for observation of Cybersafety Week.
Some thoughtfully designed lesson plans here in four areas: Intro to Digital Citizenship, You Make the Call, Ethics and Etiquette, Online Safety.
This is a demo of the microblogging and communications platform Edmodo, a private social network for K-12 education. http://www.edmodo.com/
Digital Citizenship wiki from the Heartland Area Education Agency (HAEA).
This excellent series of interactive case studies explores 8 topics: Wireless, Social Networking, Digital Permanence, Cyberbullying, Misinformation, Fair Use, Privacy and Downloading. Through multimedia activities, students examine issues affecting schoolwork, class papers, entertainment activities and online safety. Units are illustrated with Nickelodeon-style graphics and include assessments of learning. "Power to Learn" is Cablevision's nationally recognized education initiative. Some of the resources here are available in Spanish.
Student demonstration of nine elements of digital citizenship using Glogster.
Example of student deliverable on plagiarism. Done using Glogster.
When Kevin Jenkins wanted to teach his fourth-grade students at Spangler Elementary here how to use the Internet, he created a site where they could post photographs, drawings and surveys. And they did. But to his dismay, some of his students posted surveys like “Who’s the most popular classmate?” and “Who’s the best-liked?”
hat blurred line between public and private space is what Common Sense tries to address.
“That sense of invulnerability that high school students tend to have, thinking they can control everything, before the Internet there may have been some truth to that,” said Ted Brodheim, chief information officer for the New York City Department of Education. “I don’t think they fully grasp that when they make some of these decisions, it’s not something they can pull back from.”
Common Sense bases all its case studies on real life, and insists on the students’ participation. “If you just stand up and deliver a lecture on intellectual property, it has no meaning for the kids,” said Constance M. Yowell, director of education for the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, which has provided financing.
<b>Budd:e Primary</b> introduces e-security basics to stay smart online, including privacy, password creation, protecting personal details, virus scanning, secure websites, copyright and scams.
In a world of information overload, it is vital for students to not only find information but also determine its validity and appropriateness. Our information literacy material demystifies the process of finding and validating online information. These vital skills are needed as students prepare for our global economy.
The digital citizens of Doolen Middle School have come up with their 5 most important rules for the digital world they live in. We are making posters for every classroom in the school plus the library and the 2 computer labs. The target audience will be every student in the middle school, 6th, 7th and 8th grades.
Cyberbullying is sending inappropriate or mean messages and pictures to others and/or sharing personal, private information about others through technological channels. With texting and the use of social networking sites such as Facebook and Myspace, it is a big problem facing preteens and teenagers. There are things teachers can do to better understand cyberbullying and help students dealing with it.
The hierarchy of Bloom's Taxonomy is the widely accepted framework used by teachers to guide their students through progressive levels of complexity in the cognitive learning process.
Here is Bloom's applied to Cybersafety activities.
f you invited me to try and crack your password, you know the one that you use over and over for like every web page you visit, how many guesses would it take before I got it?