Doug Johnson at Blue Skunk Blog asks “What are The Top Ten Social Learning and Educational Networking Competencies for K-12 Teachers?” and posts his top ten: Help students use educational networking tools to solve information problems and communicate digitally with experts, peers and instructors. Know the major Web 2.0 categories and tools that are useful [...]
Dr. Parry Aftab, Executive Director of WiredSafety.org and founder and managing director of WiredTrust, will headline a Community Forum on Cyberbullying, Sexting, Texting, Dangers to Our Children and Families at the OARDC Fisher Auditorium (State Route 250 East) Wooster, Ohio, on Tuesday, November 2, 2010 from 7:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. This forum, which is part [...]
Google recently announced the creation of their Google Family Safety Center and the Google Family Safety Center YouTube Channel Helping your children use the Internet safely is similar to teaching them to navigate the offline world. There are parts of the real world that you wouldn’t let your children explore unsupervised—and that goes for the [...]
Where do you land on this issue? Phones or no phones? One high school administrator I’ve talked with recently noted that we need to prepare these students for the real world, and part of that real world is learning how to manage the etiquette of using cell phones in a place of business – a [...]
