Tag: citizenship

  • Beware of Phishing Cell Phone Calls: Don’t Share Personal Info with Strangers

    Here’s an important cautionary tale for anyone with a cell phone: Beware of phishing calls. Don’t share personal information with strangers over the phone, if you can’t verify their identity and authority with absolute certainty. “Security Stock-11091” (CC BY 2.0) by Hivint Like many others, I’ve noticed a significant uptick in the past few months of spam phone…

  • Rights and Responsibilities in an Age of Surveillance

    As surveillance becomes more ubiquitous and “normalized” in our society, I’m wondering if the parable of the boiling frog may apply and how these dynamics should fit into conversations at school with students, teachers and parents about digital citizenship. I’m not arguing we should abandon all the trappings of 21st century modernity and head up to…

  • Digital Literacy Tips: Strategies for Online Fact Checking

    Has someone you know shared an article link via email, Facebook, or another social media website that seems too outlandish to be true? Before liking, favoriting, or re-sharing the article link, did you take a few moments to fact-check it by searching online for other sources which either corroborate or refute the article’s claims? If…

  • An Invitation for You: Fall 2016 School Digital Citizenship Survey

    Faculty, administrators and staff at Casady School in Oklahoma City are interested in learning about your school’s approach to digital citizenship. We have formed a digital citizenship team with a mission to “equip & encourage students, parents, and faculty to act as responsible digital citizens.” This includes topics relating to Internet safety, responsible social media…

  • Podcast447: Reflections on Screenagers Movie – Growing up in the digital age

    This 20 minute podcast features reflections by Sarah Fryer, Rachel Fryer, and Wesley Fryer after watching a screening of the film, “Screenagers: Growing up in the digital age.” http://www.screenagersmovie.com This 70 minute movie was shown on September 21, 2016, to an audience of parents, students, and educators at Christ the King School in Oklahoma City. The…

  • Learning about Digital Citizenship with Carl Hooker

    The past two days, Carl Hooker (@mrhooker) shared a series of outstanding presentations on digital citizenship with students, parents, faculty and staff at my school (Casady School) in Oklahoma City. I have known Carl for many years, and had a chance to participate in his amazing iPadPalooza conference in Austin in 2014. I attended his Miami Device 2015 session…

  • Digital Citizenship Lesson from Gilbert Gottfried: The (former) Voice of the Aflac Duck

    Chances are your students may not recognize the name Gilbert Gottfried, but they all recognize his voice. Until he posted controversial tweets this week, Gottfried was the official voice of the Aflac duck. photo © 2005 Olaf Gradin | more info (via: Wylio)   See the posts, “Gilbert Gottfried Apologizes for Offensive Japan Tweets” and…