Transcript Parent Online Safety-MAS

Technology in Edina
Elementary Schools
Molly Schroeder
Technology Integration Specialist
Edina Public Schools
Did You Know?
SHIFT Happens
By Karl Fish and Scott McLeod, Accessed at http://thefischbowl.blogspot.com/
A Vision of Students Today
By Michael Wesch, Accessed at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o
Digital Natives vs. Digital Immigrants
Immigrants
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Have a digital
“accent”
 Printing out e-mail
 Call people to see
if they got your email
Read the written
instructions rather than
learn from the
program
Slower, step by step
Natives
Have grown up w/
the technology
 Have spent more
time looking at
screens than books.
 Like information
fast and multi-task
 Think and Process
Differently
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Mark Prensky, 2001
Clickers VOTE
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Are you a digital native or a digital
immigrant?
A. Native
 B. Immigrant
 C. Refugee
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Current Reality
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American youth polled (ages 9-17) reported
they spend “almost as much time using social
networking services and Web sites as they
spend watching TV.”
 “Remarkably, students report their activities as
being anything but passive, and that they are
likely to ‘engage in highly creative activities on
social networking sites.’”
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Technology & Learning, February 2008
Current Reality
Know the Facts!
 61% of 13-17 year olds have a social networking presence
(facebook, myspace)
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71% reported receiving messages from someone they
didn’t know
 45% have been asked for personal information from
someone they don’t know
Study performed by Cox Communications and the National Center for
Missing & Exploited Children, May 2006:
http://www.netsmartz.org/safety/statistics.htm#teensafety
Internet Safety Stats
 30% have considered meeting someone that they’ve only
talked to online
 14% have actually met a person face-to-face that they met
online.
 40% of teens say they will respond to someone they don’t
know online
 18% of teens will tell an adult that they have been contacted
by someone they don’t know online.
Study performed by Cox Communications and the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, May
2006: http://www.netsmartz.org/safety/statistics.htm#teensafety
Internet Safety Stats
 33% of 13-17 year olds reported their parents knew “very
little” or “nothing” about what they did online (48% of 16-17 year
olds)
 22% reported their parents never discussed Internet Safety
with them
 36% of youth said their parents had talked to them “a lot”
about online safety…this same group reported less contact from
strangers, less of an online presence, and reported strange
behaviors to adults
Study performed by Cox Communications and the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, May 2006:
http://www.netsmartz.org/safety/statistics.htm#teensafety
Clicker VOTE
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How surprised are you by the statistics
shared?
A. Shocked
B. Surprised
C. Somewhat Aware
D. Not surprised
Real World /Virtual World
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What rules do you have for your children
in the “Real World?”
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What rules do you have in the “Virtual
World?”
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At what age can they…?
At what age can they…?
As parents today, you have to look at
both.
EDINA Safety Resources
Edina Parent Resource Wiki
 Media Specialist Internet Safety Site
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Web 2.0 Policy
 Student Code of Ethics
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eInstruction Clicker Question
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How fluent are you with Internet Safety?
Do you feel you know enough to be able to
have conversations with your child?
A. Not at all
B. Just starting the conversation
C. We’re talking about it but I have a lot to learn
D. I could be giving this presentation
Federal Government Passes Law
Schools will be required to teach Internet
Safety and strategies to prevent cyberbullying
 Edina already has much of this in place
but we are working to enhance these
programs
 PTO’s can get involved by sponsoring
school wide Safety Events and speakers
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CTAP: Are you Cyber Smart?
FBI-SOS Program
8th graders at VV received an award in Mr. Buckley’s class from the
FBI. They were featured on KARE 11 for their accomplishment.
http://www.kare11.com/video/player.aspx?aid=64630&bw=
Google Safe Search
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Add Google Safe Search to your home
Computer!
Great Internet Safety Rules for Families
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Keep the computer in a common room in the house,
not in your child's bedroom.
Spend time with your children on-line. Have them
teach you about their favorite on-line destinations.
Never arrange a face-to-face or phone meeting
with someone they met on-line.
 Never upload pictures of themselves to people
that they do not personally know.
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Show you anything they receive that makes them
uncomfortable.
Great Internet Safety Rules for Families
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Never give out identifying information such as their
name, home address, school name or telephone
number.
 Never respond to messages or bulletin board postings
that are suggestive, obscene, belligerent or harassing.
 Understand that what ever they are told on-line -"may, or may not be true"!
 Utilize parental controls provided by your service
provider and/or blocking software.
 Always maintain access to your child's on-line account
and randomly check his/her e-mail.
eInstruction Clicker Question
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What do you think is the biggest problem
facing students online today?
A. Internet Predators
B. Cyber bullying
C. Copyright infringement
D. Off task behavior
Cyber Bullying
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Cyber bullying is more of a problem than
online predators
 Can take many forms
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Text messages
Web sites, Blogs
Chat rooms
Internet audience can participate
The media can sensationalize cyber-bullying
Talk with your kids about this often: more
about parenting than technology-you have to
dialogue with your kids about their world
Intellectual Property: Copyright
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What is ok to copy?
Videos/DVD’s
 Music
 Text
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What is ok to use in a school project?
 Model good behavior!!
 Copyright Resources
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Technology In Edina
What is Web 2.0?
 Blogs
 Wikis
 Podcasting
 Interactive Technologies
 Digital Storytelling
 Google Projects and Tools
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What is the PURPOSE?
In all the new Web 2.0 tools, technology
is not the purpose, learning is always
the purpose.
 Technology allows teachers to engage
students in the process of learning so
that they are able to succeed in our
world today.
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What is Web 2.0
 Web 2.0 refers to an internet that
everyone is now able to contribute to
 We used to use the internet to access
knowledge
 Now with Web 2.0 we can contribute to
the knowledge of the internet by adding
our voices: Blogs, comments, Wikis, etc.
Blogging
On-line Journals that allow students to
post their learning
 Blogger, Edublogs, Think.com
 Allow students to post their learning and
share it with others
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Wikis- means “quick” in Hawaiian
A document that many people can
update via the web
 Teachers are using Wikis to schedule
conferences, organize volunteers, post
homework, share resources, write
newsletters, give sneak peaks for
classroom units and tests
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Podcasting
Gabcast
 Recording your voice by phone
 Teachers are using this to share book
reports, chats and recommendations
 Students read poetry
 World language teachers use it for
conversation
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Interactive Technologies
SMART Boards
 InterWrite Pads
 eInstruction Student Response Systems
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Digital Storytelling
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Digital Storytelling is where students use
multi-media to tell a story…pictures, text,
sound, narration, music.
Photostory Projects
 Windos MovieMaker
 Web 2.0 tools
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Tel-A-Vision
Google Maps Projects
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4th Grade students used Google to
create an interactive map for their State
Research Project
What is the PURPOSE?
In all the new Web 2.0 tools, technology
is not the purpose, learning is always
the purpose.
 Technology allows teachers to engage
students in the process of learning so
that they are able to succeed in our
world today.
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Networking Questions
What program do you use to monitor
Internet Activity on your home computer?
 What programs are your kids using?
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Resources
Cyber-bullying: Issues and Solutions for
the School by Shaheen Shariff
 Edina Parent Resources Wiki
 Edina Media Specialist Internet Safety
Page
 Family Online Safety Institute
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