PLAYBACK: Students Viewed as Participants, Not Victims, at Online Safety Conference ...
11.10.09 | Change in Perspective: Technology journalist Larry Magid describes a “watershed moment” that occured last week in online safety education.
The third annual conference of the Family Online Safety Institute, writes Magid, “was different from previous years in that young people were viewed less as potential victims of online crimes and more as participants in a global online community.
“That’s not to say that participants didn’t worry aloud about youth safety, but instead of focusing on real and imagined dangers, we focused on how adults can work with young people to encourage both ethical and self-protective behavior. It’s all about media literacy, digital citizenship and critical thinking.”
Magid is co-director of ConnectSafely.org with Anne Collier (read her take on online safety) and founder of SafeKids.com. Continue reading Magid’s conference assessment at Mercury News.
Organizing or attending a conference?: Consider how you might provide coverage for people who can’t attend. Christopher Harris, coordinator of the school library system of the Genesee Valley (N.Y.) BOCES, explains how the recent School Library Journal Leadership Summit took the conference online using free technology tools, including Twitter, Flickr and CoverItLive.
Picture This: Özge Karaoğlu, an EFL teacher from Istanbul,Turkey, presents 25 digital storytelling tools that you can use in the classroom or to tell your digital story.
New Education Technology Leader: Karen Cator has been named director of the Office of Educational Technology at the U.S. Department of Education. The announcement was made earlier this month at the 2009 Leadership Summit and Ed Forum, hosted by the State Educational Technology Directors Association in Washington, D.C. The office is responsible for coordinating the development and implementation of the Department’s educational technology policies, research projects and national technology summits.
Cator was previously director of education leadership and advocacy at Apple. In this video, produced as part of a 2008 PBS series on America’s schools, Cator discusses the stakes involved if the U.S. doesn’t raise the bar.
Photo by: ryanocerosk
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