Vicki Davis, a blogger for Edutopia, lays out the "9 Key Ps" of digital citizenship in her post for teachers, but the list applies to parents concerned about the issue as well. The “Ps” cover everything from protecting personal information to copyrighted property. She emphasizes the importance of letting students experience situations that allow them to apply their knowledge of digital citizenship, and provides some examples of experiential learning to help teach important skills.
Facebook's newest tool, known as Safety Check, aims to allow people to quickly alert friends and family that they are safe after a natural disaster. For instance, if an earthquake is detected in the area Facebook predicts a user is located, Safety Check sends a notification asking whether the user is OK...
Towson University in Maryland has launched a course called “Alone Together: Finding Intimacy in the Age of Facebook,” in which students are asked to examine how social media has affected their lives -- in both positive and negative ways. In the course, students explore how the need to be connected has affected them socially...
New York City schools are following the lead of other large, urban districts, such as Los Angeles and Chicago, and ending the ban on cellphones in school. The district's current policy, considered one of the strictest in the country, forbids students from having cellphones at school even if they are turned off...
If your holiday shopping list includes video games for children or teens, an excellent article you might want to read first is 10 Most Violent Video Games of 2014 (and What to Play Instead)...
Vicki Davis, a blogger for Edutopia, lays out the "9 Key Ps" of digital citizenship in her post for teachers, but the list applies to parents concerned about the issue as well...
Undoubtedly your child’s school has an acceptable use policy that lays out the dos and don’ts of technology use at school. While having such a policy in place is important, Andrew Marcinek points out in his blog post Digital Citizenship: Developing a Culture of Trust and Transparency that schools may want to change the semantics of such a document to reflect the positive use of technology rather than the negative...
An excellent article, “Parents are the ones who need limits on screen time”, looks at the way technology interferes with the relationships between parents and children...
The U.S. Department of Education has sent a reminder to schools of their responsibility to address and prevent disability discrimination...
Is the term smartphone outdated and clunky? With WiFi calling, FaceTime, Google Hangouts, Skype, and other alternative conversational technologies available, what does it even mean to have a "phone call" these days?...
From fingerprint readers to voice imprints, more and more businesses are using biometrics for many purposes -- but the question now is are consumers prepared to handle the privacy implications?...