This article from The Guardian has been sitting in my inbox now for about a month. Waiting mostly for me to calm down so I can write about this halfway intelligently. Let’s start with this: Andy Phippen, professor of social responsibility at Plymouth University, said sexting – where schoolchildren are encouraged to take explicit photographs of themselves and send to […]
Clarence Fisher of Remote Access is starting his year off with some assignments on Internet Safety. It’s great to see a classroom teacher take responsibility for the online safty of their students by talking about this new wild web. Talking about Internet safety is easy, but is it affective? Having a classroom discussion about how to be safe on the […]
Listened to a great TWIT podcast on the way home today. Episode 92: The Tiki Gods They talked a lot about social networks, what makes they work, why do they work. They talk about porn sites and how do we keep kids safe…an interesting conversation from outside the educational arena. Listen to this podcast as an educators. What are saying […]
A presentation to Middle School parents around technology and their children. Helping parents understand that today’s students are different. Their brains process information differently and the digital world they live in is different then the world we grew up in. Shift happens, and learning to deal with the changes facing our world and how to help your child be successful […]