Yik Yak app concerns P.E.I. high school - A smartphone app that allows users to post anonymous comments that only other users in close proximity can see is gaining popularity among students, but it has officials at P.E.I.'s largest high school concerned. "As each day goes by, more and more students seem to be getting affected by this site," said Gordie Cox, a guidance counsellor at Colonel Gray high school. Students told CBC News that Yik Yak started to become popular in early December and has led to trash-talking because users are anonymous. Colonel Gray students say Yik Yak has been growing in popularity since early December. (CBC) Const. "There are students that aren't attending school because of it. Geo-fencing offered In an email to CBC News, Yik Yak said, "We recognize that with any social app or network, there is the likelihood for misuse from a small group of users, so we have put specific algorithms in place and continue to improve our monitoring tools to prevent this from happening." 'Answer is education'
Digital Citizenship Flashcards Another academic year is here and with it comes new clothes, lessons, and of course, new technologies. But are your child's digital citizenship skills back-to-school ready? If not, don't worry. To help them make the grade, download these flashcards to help them boost their online know-how. From safety and privacy to literacy and online responsibility, these cards cover digital citizenship basics and have conversation starters to get you and your child thinking and talking. You can reference just one, or download, print, and put together an entire flashcard deck to work through...check below for a DIY version! Want to start a conversation about all of the above?
Comment utiliser le cloud sans risque Stocker films, photos, musique et données en ligne, c'est pratique. Mais ça peut aussi être imprudent. Nos conseils pour profiter du cloud, sans nuages. Les chiffres donnent le vertige : fin 2014, il y avait environ 300 exabytes de données stockées dans le cloud au niveau mondial, soit 7% des données produites sur terre. Côté entreprises, le cloud permet de recourir à des logiciels en ligne, sans avoir à les installer sur l'ensemble des postes des utilisateurs. 1. Globalement, oui. 2. Le cloud n'étant pas infaillible, toute donnée potentiellement sensible ne devrait pas s'y trouver. 3. Dans d'immenses data centers répartis sur quatre continents. 4. Non, certains ont même démontré leur légèreté. 5. La plupart des banques proposent des clouds sécurisés, pour stocker principalement des documents administratifs que l'on souhaite conserver. 6. Si les pirates s'attaquent parfois aux serveurs, il y a très peu de risques qu'ils tentent d'intercepter vos données quand vous les partagez. 7. 8.
Why Schools Need to Teach Technology, Not Ban It Image courtesy @LBPSB During my last seven years as a teacher and consultant, I have borne witness to the technological digital shift in education. When I began my education career in 2005 at the tender age of 23, I had little idea what I was about to face. I was given an unheard of mixture of classes and was thrown to the sharks wearing my new heels and best “teacher” clothes. NaÏve and idealistic, nothing had prepared me for the challenges and incredible joys I would face in the classroom. Looking back to when I began teaching, I can now appreciate what was developing. By my second year of teaching I had become the media teacher (along with a long list of other subjects) and was introduced (by a student of course) to Facebook, founded only a few years before. As an educator or parent it is easy to forget how quickly things changed in those few years. Where do we go from here? Block, filter, take away, confiscate. The problem with this approach is that it does not work. Do we educate?
Before you post think Lúcia Ferreira | O meu e-portfolio “O que existe atrás de nós e o que existe à nossa frente são problemas menores, se comparados com o que existe dentro de nós.” Oliver W. Holmes “Não acredites nos que sabem tudo.Os que muito sabem, sabem que têm muito a aprender.A educação é do tamanho da vida.Não há começo, não há fim.Só travessia.” Rubem Alves Estudar não é só ler nos livros que há nas escolas. José Carlos Ary dos Santos Todos os finais de ano são altura de reflexão e compromisso… Que em 2012 cada um de nós saiba despir-se por dentro para cuidar dos outros com carinho e entrega, trabalhar com gosto e afinco, (re)aprender a amar a vida na sua plenitude… Só o amor nos torna humildes! Quando um Homem quiser (Ary dos Santos) Tu que dormes à noite na calçada do relento Numa cama de chuva com lençóis feitos de vento Tu que tens o Natal da solidão, do sofrimento És meu irmão amigo És meu irmão Ontem foi o último dia em que o grupo se reuniu. “Não haverá borboletas se a vida não passar por longas e silenciosas metamorfoses.”
Why Teens Are Impulsive, Addiction-Prone And Should Protect Their Brains iStock By NPR Staff Teens can’t control impulses and make rapid, smart decisions like adults can — but why? Research into how the human brain develops helps explain. In a teenager, the frontal lobe of the brain, which controls decision-making, is built but not fully insulated — so signals move slowly. “Teenagers are not as readily able to access their frontal lobe to say, ‘Oh, I better not do this,’ ” Dr. Jensen, who’s a neuroscientist and was a single mother of two boys who are now in their 20s, wrote The Teenage Brain to explore the science of how the brain grows — and why teenagers can be especially impulsive, moody and not very good at responsible decision-making. “We have a natural insulation … called myelin,” she says. This insulation process starts in the back of the brain and heads toward the front. “The last place to be connected — to be fully myelinated — is the front of your brain,” Jensen says. Interview Highlights On why teenagers are more prone to addiction Copyright 2015 NPR.
Ethical understanding - Introduction In the Australian Curriculum, students develop ethical understanding as they identify and investigate the nature of ethical concepts, values and character traits, and understand how reasoning can assist ethical judgment. Ethical understanding involves students in building a strong personal and socially oriented ethical outlook that helps them to manage context, conflict and uncertainty, and to develop an awareness of the influence that their values and behaviour have on others. The Melbourne Declaration on Education Goals for Young Australians (MCEETYA 2008) recognises that ethical understanding assists students to become ‘confident and creative individuals and active and informed citizens’. It does this through fostering the development of ‘personal values and attributes such as honesty, resilience, empathy and respect for others’, and the capacity to act with ethical integrity (MCEETYA, pp. 8–9).
Online Safety Redefined: The 3 Key Elements | Stephen Balkam Online safety has come of age. It is 21 years since "Child Safety on the Information Highway" was first published by journalist and online safety expert, Larry Magid. A year later, after the release of the notorious Rimm Study and the Time Magazine cover article on porn on the Internet, the U.S. Senate Judiciary held Congress' first ever hearing on the subject. In 1996, my own organization launched what would become the world's leading content labeling system for websites, linked to filters that parents could use to control what their kids could see on the Internet. Since then we've had what one observer called a "technopanic" over online predators, which reached its apotheosis (or nadir) in NBC Dateline's To Catch a Predator. Kids now create the content we used to try and keep them away from and they do it with immensely powerful devices they carry around with them in their pockets. So it behooves us to take a step back and ask ourselves what we mean by online safety in 2015. 1. 2. 3.
Man Regrets Posting Video on Facebook of Paris Cop's Killing PARIS — When Ahmed Coulibaly laid siege to a kosher supermarket in Paris last week, the bloody assault which left four hostages dead came as a shock — but not a surprise — to many Jews in France. The number of French Jews emigrating to Israel has jumped dramatically in recent years thanks to an uptick in perceived anti-Semitism, according to The Jewish Agency. The agency — a nonprofit which facilitates emigration to Israel, which is known as "aliyah" — said 7,000 people moved from France last year — double the 2013 total. "A lot of people thought that it was only a matter of time for something like this to happen," agency spokesman Avi Mayer told NBC News. He said that calls coming in to the agency's global service center have "literally doubled" since Coulibaly's hostage-taking and rampage in the kosher supermarket. France's Jewish community is the largest in Europe and the third-largest in the world — after Israel and the United States — with some 500,000 Jews. Courtesy of Lyon Menahem
Teach Them Kindness Posted by Shelly Terrell on Sunday, December 21st 2014 Included in the Digital Ideas Advent Calendar with a new idea each day! Unexpected kindness is the most powerful, least costly, and most underrated agent of human change. – Bob Kerrey Teaching citizenship isn’t an additional part of the curriculum. A good lesson plan or project will get students to learn how to be kind, generous, problem-solving, caring, compassionate, imaginative, creative, emphatic, and/or helpful while also getting them to learn. The goal is to get students to take what they are learning and use the knowledge and skills to somehow improve their current lives or improve the lives of others. Ideas and Activities The slideshow below provides students ideas on how to be kind in small quick ways. Created with Haiku Deck, the free presentation app for iPad Make an advent calendar in which everyday you suggest a small way for your students to be kind. Other Resources Challenge: