The new facebook poke app raises a concern or two for me in regards to appropriate use. The app which is essentially facebook’s version of snapchat allows the user to do a number of interesting things. Here is what they say about it in the 12 December news release “With the Poke app, you can [...]
The recent events surrounding Charlotte Dawson are worth reflecting on and drawing some lessons from. Charlotte is a celebrity who uses social media like twitter to maintain and potentially increase her profile. She, like many celebrities, is a polarising person with some people loving her and some people loving to hate her. The majority of [...]
Every year we run a series of workshops with our year 11 student to revise and review the acceptable use guidelines. The guidelines we use are based on ones I developed and shaped by the students and the rest of the school community. Everything in them is up for discussion and review. We believe that [...]
I have updated the Senior students Digital citizenship agreement. I have added in two elements into: Protecting others – I will moderate unacceptable materials and conversations Respecting Intellectual property – I will acknowledge primary sources Digital Citizenship 1.2
Global Digital Citizenship is a critical element of any teaching program at any level. Our students are connected. Irrespective of the age of the student they are wired. We are seeing devices reducing in cost, increasing in availability and entering most classrooms and almost every school. If you ask a students a question there first [...]
I have been working on Digital Citizenship guidelines for the younger students. In so many of the example of Acceptable use agreements we see online the language ised is considerably beyond the vocabulary and understanding of some of the younger students. I have also been trying to crystalise the “essence” of the agreement into a [...]
On Friday I had the privilege to present the opening keynote and then 2 workshops in Whangarei at the Whangarei elearning Cluster’s Vision Day. The topic of my keynote and presentations was digital citizenship. In the keynote I outline the digital citizenship model we have developed and for the workshops I developed an analysis tool [...]
One of my recent posts prompted this reply from Simon and I would like to respond to it. The posts in this series are challenging the use of filters and internet blocking in schools and questioning the reasoning behind it. The second post provides a solution to this. Simons responce is below: “While you’re at [...]
One of the frustrations I had in China was the so called “Great Firewall of China” which blocked access to many sites often without apparent reason. The Blocked sites include social media like facebook, communication tools like twitter and strangely enough Google Spreadsheets , sites but not documents. However, tools like Astrill which allow you [...]
Its great to have a rant about firewalls and filtering, but its irresponsible to not suggest a solution. Here are some thoughts on what might be a suitable solution. Solution: The core issue is having the student establish/develop a suitable moral and ethical approach to using the Internet. Establishing this moral and ethical approach will [...]
