http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2006/07/29/podcast74-safe-digital-social-networking/ Weblog of Wesley Fryer Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:55:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2006/07/29/podcast74-safe-digital-social-networking/comment-page-1/#comment-16956 Moving at the Speed of Creativity » Blog Archive » Yes, but I how do I CONTROL it? Thu, 21 Sep 2006 16:57:24 +0000 http://www.speedofcreativity.org/?p=1207#comment-16956 [...] The question I did not ask this technology director at the time was, why do you block IM? This mindset not only facinates me, it also interests me as a topic of needed advocacy. As I have written and said before, we should rejoice that students want to communicate and interact with each other via digital means. Much of those communications now take a textual form. Have many of the administrators reflectively blocking all these sites and service ports been asked by a curriculum director whether or not the students are improving their skills of literate communication by instant messaging? I doubt it. [...] [...] The question I did not ask this technology director at the time was, why do you block IM? This mindset not only facinates me, it also interests me as a topic of needed advocacy. As I have written and said before, we should rejoice that students want to communicate and interact with each other via digital means. Much of those communications now take a textual form. Have many of the administrators reflectively blocking all these sites and service ports been asked by a curriculum director whether or not the students are improving their skills of literate communication by instant messaging? I doubt it. [...]

]]> http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2006/07/29/podcast74-safe-digital-social-networking/comment-page-1/#comment-15479 Moving at the Speed of Creativity » Blog Archive » Podcast74E: Safe Digital Social Networking Mon, 11 Sep 2006 13:27:41 +0000 http://www.speedofcreativity.org/?p=1207#comment-15479 [...] Moving at the Speed of Creativity Weblog of Wesley Fryer « Podcast74: Safe Digital Social Networking Respond to DOPA with Moodle at your church » [...] [...] Moving at the Speed of Creativity Weblog of Wesley Fryer « Podcast74: Safe Digital Social Networking Respond to DOPA with Moodle at your church » [...]

]]> http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2006/07/29/podcast74-safe-digital-social-networking/comment-page-1/#comment-14779 Moving at the Speed of Creativity » Blog Archive » Identity theft and addressing DSN Fri, 08 Sep 2006 03:50:36 +0000 http://www.speedofcreativity.org/?p=1207#comment-14779 [...] My main editorial to add to this list concerns #8. There should be NO QUESTION about schools proactively addressing digital social networking at school with students, and with parents. Are we going to prepare kids for the real world, or bury our heads in the sand and pretend the non-blocked Internet sites outside the district’s content filter don’t exist at all? We MUST help kids learn to safely and effectively use digital social networking environments. They are using them now, they will continue to use them in the future, and without guideance (and even when it is provided, unfortunately) many will make poor choices in DSN environments. We must do what we can to prepare students for the real world outside of the classroom. [...] [...] My main editorial to add to this list concerns #8. There should be NO QUESTION about schools proactively addressing digital social networking at school with students, and with parents. Are we going to prepare kids for the real world, or bury our heads in the sand and pretend the non-blocked Internet sites outside the district’s content filter don’t exist at all? We MUST help kids learn to safely and effectively use digital social networking environments. They are using them now, they will continue to use them in the future, and without guideance (and even when it is provided, unfortunately) many will make poor choices in DSN environments. We must do what we can to prepare students for the real world outside of the classroom. [...]

]]> http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2006/07/29/podcast74-safe-digital-social-networking/comment-page-1/#comment-14465 Moving at the Speed of Creativity » Blog Archive » School reform vision needed Wed, 06 Sep 2006 20:36:56 +0000 http://www.speedofcreativity.org/?p=1207#comment-14465 [...] We not only need our students to be engaging in safe digital social networking, we also need them appropriately instant messaging at school. We need kids to be blogging respectfully and safely at school, so they’ll be well-prepared for the digital communication challenges and opportunities they’ll face in life. Laptops should be disruptive of traditional education. This is why we desperately need to work on refining the VISION our educational leaders and other educational stakeholders have for what it means to be literate in the 21st century. Teaching and learning shouldn’t be what it used to be. Thanks to David Warlick for this article reference. [...] [...] We not only need our students to be engaging in safe digital social networking, we also need them appropriately instant messaging at school. We need kids to be blogging respectfully and safely at school, so they’ll be well-prepared for the digital communication challenges and opportunities they’ll face in life. Laptops should be disruptive of traditional education. This is why we desperately need to work on refining the VISION our educational leaders and other educational stakeholders have for what it means to be literate in the 21st century. Teaching and learning shouldn’t be what it used to be. Thanks to David Warlick for this article reference. [...]

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