Tag Archives: digital literacy
Sexting, the conversation we need to have.
Often, it’s the difficult conversations that are never tackled. And yet, more often than not, they are the most important conversations we need to have. When you’re a teacher, having honest, up front conversations related to adolescent behaviour and sexual … Continue reading
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ViewPure – your saving grace
I don’t very often find myself writing about new tools much anymore, but this one is worthy of a post, simply because it is going to make some teachers’ lives so much easier. ViewPure promotes itself as; “Pure video viewing … Continue reading
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Nurturing their Digital Footprint – lessons for Year 12
As part of our continued push to acknowledge the importance of Cybersafety instruction at my school, today I delivered a presentation to our Yr 12 students about how they can nurture their digital profile. Just a month or so ago, … Continue reading
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Rives responds – real life digital literacy
Recently, I posted about my daughter Cassidy’s emoticon story that she completed for an English project. It was inspired by the poet Rives, who delivered ‘A Story of Mixed Emoticons‘ at TED 2008. While I was looking at Rives’ blog, … Continue reading
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Facebook and privacy – is your school helping students to understand privacy settings?
Facebook is the primary social network most of our students are accessing to manage their social lives. Are they going to stop using it anytime soon? No, they’re not. They’re not going to stop because it’s their communication platform- it’s … Continue reading
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ACER’s Digital Education Research Network launched
For quite some time, I’ve been of the opinion that those of us pushing boundaries with our use of technology in education are in need of the support of the research community. Too many of us seem to be up … Continue reading
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Misconceptions
Seth Godin’s latest blog post reminds us how we can be relaying misconceptions to the students we teach. The internet certainly presents us with possibilities. We can become creators and have our work appreciated by others. We can make a … Continue reading
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School’s out Friday
You have to watch this. This is a TED Talk from Jonathon Zittrain, a social theorist who proposes in his talk that the world is not becoming less friendly. In fact, we are seeing the opposite, and this is demonstrated through … Continue reading
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