Education and Technology
October 20, 2008 in Policies, Social Networking, Technology | 2 comments
New legislation passed unanimously by the US Senate and headed for the President’s desk mandates schools to provide instruction about safety on social networking sites. The language was appended to S.1492 bill Broadband Data Improvement. While the thrust of the bill is improving broadband Internet access to Americans, SubTitle A: Promoting a Safe Internet for Children includes :
(iii) as part of its Internet safety policy is educating minors about appropriate online behavior, including interacting with other individuals on social networking websites and in chat rooms and cyberbullying awareness and response.
What better way to teach them than to use social networking software in instruction, rather than lecture them about online perils? A closed environment monitored by teachers would give students real life practice in a safer environment. It would add relevance and authenticity to instruction. Discussion of appropriate online behavior prior to actually using social networking software would have a positive impact on student learning and is more likely to have a lasting effect on student online behavior. Mistakes would have lesser repercussions than on a site open to the world at large. They could be powerful teachable moments.
I plan to use this to bolster my case for the use of social networking software in our school. What impact do you think this may have on schools and their potential use of social software?
Tags: educational technology, policy, safety, Social Networking, web 2.0
Phil on October 22, 2008 at 7:01 am
Seems the Germans are starting to lay down some social networking privacy laws …
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/22/social_networking_privacy_germany/
November 26, 2009 in open knowledge, presentations
Slides from my presentation. This is a large QuickTime file, so it will take a minute to load.
Open Knowledge
Audio:
Recording of presentation
Links:
Creative Commons Site
Lessig: The Network We Need Highly A must view presentation
Flickr Commons (from archives)
Flickr Creative Commons
MediaWiki Commons
Gutenberg Project
Library of Congress Digital Collection
Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources
WikiBooks
Connexions Educational Modules
Curriki: Collection shared educational resources
Open [...]
November 23, 2009 in Social Networking
I just finished Day 2 at the NYSCATE Annual Conference in Rochester, NY. I had a great time presenting twice on topics that I am passionate about and enjoyed all our Keynote speakers. I’ve met some great folks and have had wonderful conversations.
Plan on an more active blog as I’ll be writing and reflecting more [...]
November 1, 2009 in Policies, Technology
Last April, the New York State Department of Education (NYSED) embarked on an outreach campaign seeking input on their new draft technology plan. They started with a meeting leaders of major professional organizations. They set up a survey on their website and met with educational technology leaders at the NYSCATE leadership summit this summer. As [...]
October 7, 2009 in Uncategorized
I had the privilege of presenting at our school’s Future Business Leaders of America’s District Meeting in Greenwich, NY today. I had a great time presenting and meeting students and faculty. I hope to participate again.
As promised, I am uploading and displaying the contents of my presentations here.
There there is a lot of content on [...]
July 29, 2009 in Policies, Technology
The NYSED Technology Plan’s first goal addresses digital content:
Standards-based, accessible digital content supports all curricula for all learners.
Accessible is defined as: content available anywhere, easy to retrieve using multiple technology devices, and content is universally designed. Aligning digital content to the New York State learning standards is how we will ensure quality and relevance in [...]
July 27, 2009 in Policies, Social Networking, Technology
While I attended the NYSCATE Leadership Summit last week for a variety of reasons, the main motivation was to hear the New York State Education Department’s (NYSED) presentation on their proposed state technology plan. Beyond the presentation there were roundtable discussions to provide input and feedback followed by an opportunity to ask questions.
When the opportunity to [...]
May 4, 2009 in Social Networking, buddypress, open source
In honor of the release of BuddyPress 1.0, I trashed my previous installation and created a new one from scratch. The new version of BuddyPress requires WordPressMu 2.7.1 and bbPress 1.0 alpha. The process, while simplified, is still out of the reach of many who are accustomed to the standard, upload, create database, and browser [...]
May 2, 2009 in Uncategorized
Lawrence Lessig, legal scholar and Creative Commons founder was hit with a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DCMA) take down notice on a recent presentation on copyright law in the digital age. Lessig writes on his blog:
Received a notice that Warner Music had objected to its being posted on copyright grounds. Apparently, YouTube’s content-ID algorithm had [...]
April 30, 2009 in Social Networking, Technology
As promised, former Elgg developer Ben Werdmuller, has announced a new social networking project. He is working on a social mapping project called OutMap. In addition, he is beginning a web consulting service. He alluded to a third project that he is keeping under wraps.
OutMap appears to be a social geographic information system in which a user [...]
April 30, 2009 in Elgg, buddypress, wordpress
WPMu was just updated to a long awaited Version 2.7.1 which has, in turn, triggered events in the BuddyPress realm. The new WPMu version offers a number of important improvements making it a significant improvement. As a consequence, BuddyPress has finally been able to release Version 1.o.
Upgrading from WPMu 2.7 to 2.7.1 was a cinch. [...]
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