Social networks provide huge opportunities for education but can potentially have devasting consequences as well.
As classroom teachers we have a set of processes we use to keep ourselves and our students safe.
We keep our conversations appropriate. You can not divorce yourself from your students lives but you do keep a respectful distance.
We avoid meeting students [...]
The Herald on Sunday, today, ran a feature article on students using facebook in an inappropriate manner, firstly in a conversation about a fellow students and then posting comments about a teacher.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10578306
While I might have suspicions that the article was given priority because of the profile of the school. The article does highlight a number [...]
Over the last two weeks I have been presenting the Digital Citizen to the year 11 and 13 students at school. It has been an interesting and enlightening experience.
Part of the process has been discussing with then the “code of ethics”, the six facets of the digital citizen and taking there feedback on it. For [...]
Facebook has undergone a huge growth in popularity over the last year. It is a hugely popular medium for social interaction.
One facet of being a digital citizen is Protecting yourself. This can be not putting yourself at risk by keeping private sensitive information, keeping your social networking profiles private etc. But this recent article in [...]
Thank you to every one who contributed to this. I really appreciate the comments and suggestions and I have tried to incorperate many of these in to this. Sections 5 & 6 are reworked and I hope are now more positve in there flavour.
I would appreciate any further comments and suggestions. Once this is settled [...]
A couple of posts ago I wrote about the digital citizen and citizenship. Well I have been working on this concept and I have created an acceptable use agreement based on the tenets of being a good digital citizen.
Here is the AUA, its based not on restrictions or technology rather on an ethical basis for [...]
In Rome, to be a citizen was a level to aspire to. A Roman Citizen had privilages, he was;
exempt some taxes;
protected against certain punishments
empowered with rights like voting, making contracts, marriage and standing for office.
But with these rights also came responsibilities. The citizen of Rome Had to speak Latin, pay taxes, serve jury duty, [...]
Its not suprising really, when you think about it. The cell phone, which is an extension of some many of our students brains, is potentially being used for SEXTING!!!
What is Sexting? Well have a look at the wikipedia article on it (yes it is suitable and not in any way shape or form inappropriate) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexting [...]
Wow, what a week. 4 days of presentations, 5 flights and 7 sessions. I have to say it was fun but I was pretty jaded by the end of the experience.
The robotics sessions in Rotorua, were great fun, hands on experiences. As tools for learning and constructing knowledge and understanding they are superb.
In Wellington, I [...]
The other day, as I drove home I listen to the local Radio News station interviewing their regular tech expert – Tech Tuesday on News Talk ZB.
The topic of conversation came around to the usual suspects of youth today and socialising. The resident DJ and expert had a lively discourse on how the kids of [...]
