There have been two recent court events in the United Kingdom that reinforce the key underlying principles of digital citizenship: Middle School Digital Citizenship Senior School Digital Citizenship Looking after yourself Respect yourself & Protect yourself Looking after others Respect others & Protect others Looking after Property Respect Intellectual Property & Protect Intellectual Property Source: [...]
I love the concept of BYOD (Bring your own device) on a number of levels. We have a successful BYOD program at the senior school and it works. From a administrative and financial aspect BYOD makes sense. You don’t have to provide the students with either laptops, leases or access to machines the cost savings [...]
A collegue asked me the other day “what is next?” We were discussing email and how this very simple and now relatively old system has changed the face of communications. The first APRANET email was sent in 1971, and use of email has grown exponentially. In many instances, email has replaced the letter as our [...]
Thanks for the feedback and the comments – I have updated the JS guidelines and invite comments and suggestions. JS internet-computer use guide Computers at school When we aren’t at school we use computers for lots of reasons. When we are at school, we use computers, ipads, ipods, the internet, printers or cell phones for [...]
I am preparing for a keynote in 6 weeks time, on teaching and learning in a digital world and it occurs to me that technology can be the death of lower order thinking. As a teacher, I strive to have my students working in the upper reaches of thinking skills; to be analytical, evaluative and [...]
The closure of the news of the world is a salient lesson for all who publish. While the lessons are easy to see for the newspaper companies and others in the media industry, they are equally relevant for all publishers. The demise of the news of the world was not due to lack of interest [...]
As phrases go “talking to strangers” is hugely loaded. It brings connotations of child molesters, kidnappers and generally wierd and unpleasant people. We teach our students and our own children about “stranger danger” and alas many people live in fear of strangers. Given this you can image the response at a recent conference when Will [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Its been a while but with the impending demise or sale of Delicious by Yahoo! I have created another starter sheet, this one is for Diigo – another social networking tool. http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/file/view/starter+sheet+-+Diigo.pdf This starter sheet has an overview of the use of the tool and some of the key features it has. It also examines [...]
