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EduCon 2.5 & helping kids learn in ‘a landscape with no maps’

January 30, 2013 By Anne 1 Comment

EduCon

As parents, we're now beginning to accept this, I think: "We live in a world that is re-creating itself one life and one digital connection at a time … a landscape for which there are no maps," as Krista Tippett said it in her introduction to a timely radio conversation with Seth Godin on American Public Media (not that we know quite what to do with that awareness yet (see this sidebar). … [Read more...] about EduCon 2.5 & helping kids learn in ‘a landscape with no maps’

Filed Under: education technology, Literacy & Citizenship, Parenting, School & Tech Tagged With: American Public Media, education, educon, James Paul Gee, learning, Seth Godin

Using social media to grow student engagement

January 26, 2013 By Anne 2 Comments

Though student engagement seems like a tough thing to measure, Gallup recently did, calling it the education version of "the fiscal cliff" so much in the news at the turn of the year. In a survey of 500,000 students in grades 5 through 12, Gallup Education found that, while nearly 80% of elementary students its surveyed "are engaged with school," that engagement falls to 40% of high school … [Read more...] about Using social media to grow student engagement

Filed Under: education technology, Research, School & Tech, Social Media, virtual worlds Tagged With: classes, digital citizenship, education cliff, fiscal cliff, Gallup, learning, participatory learning, student engagement, teaching

Young readers and e-readers: Study

January 23, 2013 By Anne 1 Comment

Gallup's "School Cliff"

Despite their love for digital technology, 80% of kids and teens who use ebooks "still read primarily print books for fun," a new Scholastic survey of readers aged 6-17 has found. But we are seeing a shift in the way kids read: "58% of 9-to-17-year-olds say they will always want to read books printed on paper, even though there are ebooks available," but that's down from 66% in 2010. Digital books … [Read more...] about Young readers and e-readers: Study

Filed Under: Literacy & Citizenship, Research, Social Media Tagged With: books, digital media, digital technology, ebooks, learning, reading, Scholastic, tablet

Mining Minecraft, Part 3: Safety & citizenship in games (do try this at home!)

December 14, 2012 By Anne 4 Comments

Teacher and student at Elisabeth Morrow School

Guest post by Marianne Malmstrom I’m thrilled by the competency and resourcefulness of my young students. But I also feel an urgency to inform parents and teachers that our children need us to be present and involved online. Just as in “real world" spaces, they require supervision and guidance in virtual spaces. They don’t know to ask for permission to make accounts, connect with friends, … [Read more...] about Mining Minecraft, Part 3: Safety & citizenship in games (do try this at home!)

Filed Under: education technology, Literacy & Citizenship, Parenting, Risk & Safety, School & Tech Tagged With: digital environments, education technology, elementary school, Elisabeth Morrow School, games, learning, Marianne Malmstrom, MineCraft, Parenting, parents, students, teaching

Mining Minecraft, Part 2: Brilliance when students drive the learning

December 13, 2012 By Anne 2 Comments

Machine designed by a 5th grader in Minecraft

Guest post by Marianne Malmstrom At the Elisabeth Morrow School, we have been on a journey to help our students develop the essential skills of creativity, collaboration, communication, critical thinking and citizenship. We turned to virtual worlds and MOGs because these are the same skills many young gamers practice through immersive play. Initially, we used these spaces largely for curriculum … [Read more...] about Mining Minecraft, Part 2: Brilliance when students drive the learning

Filed Under: education technology, School & Tech, school policy, Social Media Tagged With: digital citizenship, digital environments, digital literacy, education technology, Elisabeth Morrow School, learning, Marianne Malmstrom, media literacy, MineCraft, school, social literacy, students

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Our (DIGITAL) PARENTING BASICS: Safety + Social
NAMLE, the National Association for Media Literacy Education
CASEL.org & the 5 core social-emotional competencies of SEL
Center for Democracy & Technology
Center for Innovative Public Health Research
Childnet International
Committee for Children
Congressional Internet Caucus Academy
ConnectSafely.org
Control Shift: a pivotal book for Internet safety
Crimes Against Children Research Center
Crisis Textline
Cyber Civil Rights Initiative's Revenge Porn Crisis Line
Cyberwise.org
danah boyd's blog and book about networked youth
Disconnected, Carrie James's book on digital ethics
FOSI.org's Good Digital Parenting
The research of Global Kids Online
The Good Project at Harvard's School of Education
If you watch nothing else: "Parenting in a Digital Age" TED Talk by Prof. Sonia Livingstone
The International Bullying Prevention Association
Let Grow Foundation
Making Caring Common
Raising Digital Natives, author Devorah Heitner's site
Renee Hobbs at the Media Education Lab
MediaSmarts.ca
The New Media Literacies
Report of the Aspen Task Force on Learning & the Internet and our guide to Creating Trusted Learning Environments
The Ruler Approach to social-emotional learning (Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence)
Sources of Strength
"Young & Online: Perspectives on life in a digital age" from young people in 26 countries (via UNICEF)
"Youth Safety on a Living Internet": 2010 report of the Online Safety & Technology Working Group (and my post about it)

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