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empowering and protecting tomorrow's digital citizens miguel guhlin http://mguhlin.net

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change is inevitable Brian Grenier’s Bump on the Blog Source: http://bumpontheblog.etowns.net/?p=133

Loss of control

School 2.0 is about creating personal learning networks, communicating, collaboration, and constructing virtual spaces in which to experience relationships. communication.

in education... Textbook Publishers Curriculum Experts District Experts Teachers Students

21st century education Teachers are no longer mediators of content and what gets shared by their students with the world. Students publish directly to the Web and their teachers are lucky if they can access it at school.

technology is indivisible from 21st Century education

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2. understanding our frame of reference is critical Source: http://www.jmem.ch/sbcw/images/auge-kleiner.jpg

3. conversations, not consequences, need to be our focus.

1. technology is indivisible from 21st Century education

technology & learning... indivisible Walkthroughs from TeacherTube.com

2. understanding our frame of reference is critical Source: http://www.jmem.ch/sbcw/images/auge-kleiner.jpg

frames are fundamental ways of looking at the world...a worldview. They can be stories, worldviews, but they shape our understanding of events.

what frame are you working from?

Strict Father Frame

The World is a dangerous place and competitive.

There are right answers, and wrong ones.

Children must obey since father is the authority.

Develop internal discipline to succeed

Punishment for failure to obey is an option.

Truth is absolute.

Nurturing Parent Frame

Shared responsibility for raising children

Encourages children to engage in open, two-way conversation

Engage in community-building.

Protect children by using life ’s teachable moments.

it’s scary.... Cyberbullying Videos: http://www. youtube .com/watch? v=csS_RnOhd-Q http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCMKr4lJi24

MySpace Source: MySpace.com - Search on New Zealand yielded 3000 users on 03/13/2007

Strict Father Response

So we're supposed to ignore the fact that students are trading pornographic pictures via MySpace? For that reason alone I've denied access to this site.

I'm not risking student exposure to pornography or risk alienating parents on a site that has questionable educational value at best when there are many more sites that have solid educational value.

Nurturing Parent Response

If nothing else --the "trainwreck" of myspace--has allowed a great deal of open communication at my school with both parent's and students.

If communication is education --which I firmly believe it is --then bring the train wreck on. I can make a lesson out of it.

How do you see yourself?

How do you see yourself?

From what perspective do you act out of most of the time?

Filter a website, and you protect a student for a day. Educate students about online safety in a real world environment, and you protect your child for a lifetime. - Christopher Harris

which worldview is in play here?

3. conversations, not consequences, need to be our focus.

what are you focused on? what’s your frame?

When should this conversation have taken place?

We live in an era where people can publish at will. Relevance is and will increasingly be a function of digital accessibility. You want to be relevant? Give away your ideas. Want to become irrelevant? Create a walled garden that keeps out more people than it lets in. You'll be sure to limit your audience, and therefore reduce your relevance and potential impact on the world. Sharing ideas. It's what the Internet was founded for, and what it is still all about. Source: Wesley Fryer, Moving at the Speed of Creativity

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