What is a digital tattoo? | Burnaby Public Library In short, it is your digital identity. Just like a tattoo, your digital reputation is an expression of yourself. It is formed and added to by you and others over time. Your digital tattoo includes things like websites or blogs you’ve created, tweets, blog comments, your account or screen names and everything else you’ve left on the Internet from your online activities. Just like a real tattoo, a digital tattoo is easy to create but extremely difficult to remove. There is nothing wrong with having a digital tattoo – digital tattoos are not bad or dangerous, and positive posts can actually work to enhance your reputation. Want to learn more about yours? Search yourself. Why does it matter? Being on the Internet is like being in public – anyone and everyone are watching you, and you don’t know who they are. People also judge you by how you behave online, which can affect you later in life with things like employment (finding a job), college acceptance and your real life relationships.
Digital Literacy and Citizenship Curriculum – Know your web – Good to Know – Google At Google we believe in the power of education and the promise of technology to improve the lives of students and educators -- leading the way for a new generation of learning in the classroom and beyond. But no matter what subject you teach, it is important for your students to know how to think critically and evaluate online sources, understand how to protect themselves from online threats from bullies to scammers, and to think before they share and be good digital citizens. Google has partnered with child safety experts at iKeepSafe, and also worked with educators themselves to develop lessons that will work in the classroom, are appropriate for kids, and incorporate some of the best advice and tips that Google's security team has to offer. Class 1: Become an Online Sleuth In this class, students will identify guidelines for evaluating the credibility of content online. We are always looking to improve these classes.
Classrooms Without Walls: Using Digital Media to Connect Inside and Outside of the Classroom EdSurge Newsletters Receive weekly emails on edtech products, companies, and events that matter. Start by taking a moment to reflect. Think about last year. But at the end of the day, there are always questions to ask yourself: What tool did I use to connect with my parents and students? To answer these questions, I often turn to the people who can help me evaluate how effectively I’ve been integrating edtech tools into the classroom: students, parents and fellow educators. Leveraging relationships with educators One of the most simple ways to begin to break down your classroom walls is to build a strong PLN, or Personal Learning Network. Twitter is one of the easiest and most common ways to develop a strong PLN. And don’t forget to contribute yourself--other educators want to learn your awesome practices, too! Leveraging relationships with students Our students need an authentic audiences, and the ability to connect with others too. Leveraging relationships with parents
fishtreeblog.tumblr Color Blind or Color Conscious? Feature How schools acknowledge racial and ethnic identities will affect all students’ educational experiences by BEVERLY DANIEL TATUM I've had many teachers say to me, "I’m not prejudiced. Many teachers aspire to be "color-blind" when interacting with their students. As the father quoted above observed, "If you’re going to teach them all the same, does that mean that you don’t recognize that they are black … that they have an experience that is rich and that you can use to enrich this classroom?" A color-blind approach often means that the educator has not considered the meaning of racial/ethnic identity to the child. However, when dealing especially with adolescents, identity questions are very important to keep in mind. Why are young people of color thinking about themselves in terms of race or ethnicity? Shaping of Self-Perception The concept of identity is a complex one, shaped by individual characteristics, family dynamics, historical factors and social and political contexts.
At Waldorf School in Silicon Valley, Technology Can Wait Of course, that figure may not be surprising, given that these are students from families that value education highly enough to seek out a selective private school, and usually have the means to pay for it. And it is difficult to separate the effects of the low-tech instructional methods from other factors. For example, parents of students at the Los Altos school say it attracts great teachers who go through extensive training in the Waldorf approach, creating a strong sense of mission that can be lacking in other schools. Absent clear evidence, the debate comes down to subjectivity, parental choice and a difference of opinion over a single world: engagement. Advocates for equipping schools with technology say computers can hold students’ attention and, in fact, that young people who have been weaned on electronic devices will not tune in without them. “Teaching is a human experience,” he said. “It’s supereasy. “You can look back and see how sloppy your handwriting was in first grade.
Facts About Cyber Bullying Frequency of Cyberbullying 81% of young peoplethink bullying online is easier to get away with than bullying in person.53% of kids admit having said something mean or hurtful to another person online. More than 1 in 3 have done it more than once Over 95% of teenagers use social networking sites to communicate with peers. Nearly 43% of kids have been bullied online. 1 in 4 has had it happen more than once. 70% of students report seeing frequent bullying online. “Hyper-networking” teens (those who spend more than three hours per school day on online social networks) are 110% more likely to be a victim of cyberbullying, compared to those who don’t spend as much time on social networks. 1 in 10 adolescents or teens have had embarrassing or damaging pictures taken of themselves without their permission, often using cell phones. Cyber Bullying Facts: Cyberbullying Platform Cyber Bullying Facts : Demographics Girls are about twice as likely as boys to be victims and perpetrators of cyber bullying.
Grade6historians - CyberCitizenship Skip to main content Get your Wikispaces Classroom now: the easiest way to manage your class. guest Join | Help | Sign In Grade6historians Home guest| Join | Help | Sign In Turn off "Getting Started" Loading... Twitter for Digital Citizenship | Miss Spink on Tech On Friday I read this article, published in the local Leader Newspaper. The article was based on a complaint made by an older sibling of a student at Roxburgh Homestead PS about Twitter being used in a year two classroom…which to any reader probably sounds like an irresponsible thing for a school to allow. These views were backed up by “cybersaftey expert”, Susan McLean. I have been a longtime advocate for using Twitter in education, in fact, it was more than three years ago now when I started using Twitter to model and teach authentic global digital citizenship. What worries me the most is that this conversation still needs to be had. Susan McLean, the “cybersaftey expert” and former policewoman suggests that “the problem is you’re exposing children to a world that technically they’re not supposed to be in”. I think it is important to explain that the use of classroom Twitter accounts does not mean students just get to go off and Tweet about anything without teacher supervision.
Why Sharing Your Good Work Is Necessary, Not Boastful Just last week, I have having a conversation with two educators at a family picnic. They were a thoughtful pair, and they had a wonderful grasp of teaching and learning. About halfway through the conversation, I asked them the following question: "Have you ever considered your sharing your good work on Twitter or social media?" I thought the question was relatively innocuous as both of them had checked Facebook or Instagram throughout our chat. Their words caused me to stop and refelct. Enter the 2014 Gallup Poll. The Gallup Poll is an annual tool that seeks to understand the general opinions and feelings of the public in the United States with regards to education. 48% of respondents incorrectly believe that charter schools are not public schools.50% of Americans give local schools grades of A or B, even though they believe that the national system is performing much worse.Only 24% of public school parents have heard "a great deal" about the Common Core Standards.
Back to School: What Can We Learn from Student Privacy Developments? Recent legislative developments relating to student privacy have something to teach everyone. For professionals in the education space, the developments signal significant forthcoming changes to policies and business practices. But there’s more to the developments than the creation of new sector-specific obligations. The way in which data-sharing agreements with vendors and business partners feature in the new student privacy laws is a good indicator of how important such agreements are becoming. Last year, parents and educators began to express concern about cloud-based services for educational institutions. Those concerns led inBloom, a student data-management company, to shut down its operations. According to the Data Quality Campaign, over 75 percent of state legislatures active in 2014 introduced student data privacy bills. Organizations should take stock of the data sharing agreements into which their organizations have entered.
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