Using Twitter in High School Classrooms
One of the best professional experiences I’ve had in a long time happened at my Teaching the iGeneration workshop in Cincinnati this week. (10-24)
Cyberbullying: the power and peril of anonymity
While the faceless nature of the Internet can bring out the worst in cyberbullies of all shapes and sizes, it also means concerned bystanders can more easily report wrongdoing without the stigma of public identification, said panelists at a town hall meeting on cyberbullying Tuesday in Chicago and on a live Web stream worldwide.
http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/DigitalEducation/2011/10/cyberbullying_the_power_and_pe.html
App Promotes Savvy Web Use Among Kids
A new tool for keeping young teens and pre-teens safe while using social media has been launched using simulated situations the youths might face in their daily school lives.
Called BeSeen, the free mobile application was developed by Carnegie Mellon University’s Information Networking Institute (INI) and the national nonprofit Web Wise Kids. The app becomes available today for Apple devices and will be available on Android-powered systems in December. (10/13)
A Call for Opening Web Access at Schools
Students at Silver Creek High School in Longmont, Colo., held a “graffiti debate” on censorship on Wednesday: Should schools block Web sites? On sheets of white butcher paper hanging in the library, they wrote lists of the pros and cons of online access. New York Times (9/28)
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/29/education/29banned.html?_r=1
Budget Crisis Inspires Award-winning Design with e-books
Byron High School faced a crisis when the state of Minnesota issued new student achievement standards. Byron’s existing textbooks didn’t meet state standards and they couldn’t afford new books. So when Principal Michael Duffy’s teachers came to him with a radical new idea. Since they couldn’t afford new textbooks, Byron High’s math and science teachers offered to donate time to sift through the best free resources and create virtual textbooks. T.H.E. Journal (9/28)
