privacy noun [ mass noun ] a state in which one is not observed or disturbed by other people: she returned to the privacy of her own home. • the state of being free from public attention: a law to restrict newspapers’ freedom to invade people’s privacy. [Dictionary Version 2.2.1 Apple] I read this morning [...]
Social media, like twitter or facebook, is neither positive or negative. It isn’t good or bad, its just a tool, a facility or a feature we can use. On the traditional medias like television these mediums are collecting a bit of criticism for the comments, tweets and posts published in light of the recent tragedies [...]
This is a very interesting infographic examining generation media consumption http://adage.com/article/adagestat/infographic-generational-media-usage-time-day/229831/ especially if we start to link this with the recent BBC article and the anecdotal vignettes from teenagers about their sleepless habits – http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21876118 There is a definite digital citizenship aspect to this. The students in the BBC article are not looking after themselves or [...]
Here are a selection of interesting articles on education, technology and digital citizenship: New Zealand Herald Defence force highlights social network dangers – http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10870096 – This is a Digital citizenship basic concept, look after yourself by not posting information that can potentially put you at risk. For these guys it could be life and limb [...]
On the wire today we have a focus on digital citizenship, and a little on a global project 1. Facebook privacy settings http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/facebooks-privacy-settings-a-complete-guide/ This week seems to have had a number of digital citizenship articles in the various online news sites that I subscribe to: Stuff article on “mum’s cell phone contract” – http://t.co/UWVQINiY [...]
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 [...]
Lee sent me this article recently and I have to say I am a little shocked. http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2012/04/25/google-drive-cloud-storage-terms.html Like many in education I make use of the Google suite of tools, for a long time Google documents and more recently Google drive. I suspect that like many people when it came to agreeing with the terms and [...]
I had to link the digital citizenship agreements I have developed to create a continuum that starts in the junior school with our younger learners and proceeds through to our more senior students. I took the three agreements or guidelines and combined them into one document that follows three strands – personal responsibility, social responsibility [...]
Education Alberta (Canada) has published a Development guide for Digital Citizenship Policy. This is an extensive document which includes some of my work and that of my esteemed colleague Dr Jason Ohler. This is a great resource and well worth downloading and working through. It is about 80+ pages so you do need to put [...]
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 [...]
