Contentions, research, and proactive strategies for digital citizenship

I am co-presenting a session Monday, November 10th at the 10th annual Oklahoma Safe and Healthy Schools conference here in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, at the Clarion Meridian Conference Center with attorney Julie Miller. Our session is titled “Internet Safety, Social Networking and the Oklahoma School Security Act.” Presentation slides for my portion of our session (licensed Creative Commons Attribution-Only) are available as a PDF file. (16.8 MB) A more descriptive title for my portion of this session would be “Contentions, research, and proactive strategies for digital citizenship.”

I have linked these presentation slides from both my main handouts page on my blog and my wiki curriculum page (which includes extensive links) titled “Safe Digital Social Networking (DSN) -or- Proactive Approaches to Address Cyberbullying and Digital Social Networking.”

In this session, among others, I’ll be extending the analogy that social and educational digital networking is a lot like swimming. We’re going to have to get in the pool with our kids and get wet if we’re going to help them learn to safely and deftly navigate the opportunities as well as risks in this new digital environment.

Some of the updated reports and resources I’ll be referencing in this session which I have not included in previous presentations on this topic include:

1. McAfee, Inc. Research Reveals Mothers Rate Cyber Dangers as High as Drunk Driving or Experimenting With Drugs (22 Oct 2008)
2. Examples of social networking power and influence in the 2008 elections (Obama campaign YouTube site, Liberal Dems Top Conservative Reps in Donations, Activism article from 23 Oct 2008)
3. Website allofme.com – an aggregator for individual’s digital footprints
4. Students Competing For Slots At Elite Colleges Resorting To “Facebook Sabotage” (23 Oct 2008) – nod to Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach for this link
5. Bullying of teenagers online is common, UCLA psychologists report (2 Oct 2008)
6. Schools soon required to teach web safety (13 Oct 2008 from eSchoolNews)
7. IBM Social Computing Guidelines (schools need to have guidelines like these)
8. The E-Discovery Amendments To The Federal Rules Of Civil Procedure And School District IT (Document Retention Systems) (1 Oct 2008 from the EdJurist blog)

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