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Professional Safety Online

Friday, January 4th, 2008

This fall I had the opportunity to sit on a meeting detailing the importance of using digital technologies appropriately as an education professional. While the presentation was very well-intended, it seemed that a number of my teacher colleagues left with sense that there is no safe way to professionally use technology and that doing so [...]

Safe Mistakes: A case for email in school

Monday, November 19th, 2007

Doug Johnson at Blue Skunk Blog highlights a good example of the importance of teaching students responsible use of the internet, rather than steering clear of it. A case that arose in his district out of the use of school-sponsored email provided a meaningful teaching opportunity. “It is because of incidents like this that I [...]