tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70212178660583992912024-02-26T02:15:50.276-08:00Cyber Civics BlogStories about this middle school digital citizenship and literacy program that teaches students to be ethical, competent, and safe users of technology. Get it at www.cybercivics.com.Diana Graber, Founder, Cyber Civicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02258311692853215992noreply@blogger.comBlogger34125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7021217866058399291.post-4255525796953669252016-08-26T08:27:00.000-07:002016-08-31T07:59:41.471-07:00Assessing Cyber Civics<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
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integral part of instruction, as it determines<br /> </span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #444444;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "calibri";"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">whether or not
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I know that student assessments are important,
but in the past I have resisted administering them to my own students in <a href="http://www.cybercivics.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Cyber Civics</span></a>—the digital citizenship and literacy program—because:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Every school hour I get to spend with them
engaging in lessons and discussion about their digital world is precious.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I know, through observation and anecdotal
evidence, that these lessons are helping students become kinder and more
competent technology users.</span></li>
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no longer demands administrative time or attention. Isn’t this proof enough that
these lessons are working?</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But data and student feedback are important, so
this past school year I took the time to conduct pre- and post-assessments of
all three of my Cyber Civics classes—6<sup>th</sup>, 7<sup>th</sup>, and 8<sup>th</sup>
grade students at my school who participate in weekly lessons in digital
citizenship, information literacy, and media literacy. Here is what I learned...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In 6<sup>th</sup> grade students receive weekly,
hour-long lessons in <a href="http://www.cybercivics.com/year-1" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Digital Citizenship </span></a>(the norms of responsible and
respectable behavior regarding technology use). It was no surprise that, at the
beginning of the school year, students didn’t know much. In fact, the overall
class score was only 11% (questions answered correctly). By the end of the year
the class average was 93.5%.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The assessment included 12 questions, such as:
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>“What is a “digital citizen”?</i> (No
one got this right).</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hardly anyone got the second question above quite
right either, but not for lack of trying.
One young man answered: <i>“A digital footprint is when you step on a computer.”</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Interestingly, a question that most students
answered correctly was:<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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this right, with answers like, <i>“My
computer person”</i>). Some got this wrong although I knew that <i>they</i> knew what it meant <i>(“I don’t know how to explain it”</i>).</span></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Finally, the question that the most students got
right (58%) was:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p><i style="text-indent: -0.25in;">“Give an example of information that should never be shared
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Terms that adults use liberally—<b>digital
citizenship, digital footprint</b>—are meaningless to kids, at least they were to the 6<sup>th</sup>
graders I taught last year. Yet, they <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">do</i>
hear our admonitions about what <b>not</b> to do online loud and clear. Many of my
students knew <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">not</b> to post personal
info, passwords, age, or even “mean things” about others. Yet the underlying
reasons or long-term implications of doing so were not clear to them (that it
can damage their reputations, for example). Just as memorizing the answers to a
test doesn’t constitute true “learning,” being able to recite what one shouldn’t
do online, isn’t “digital citizenship.” Plus, it is light years away from
understanding how to use powerful digital technologies to their full and
positive capacities.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The final question I asked 6<sup>th</sup>
grade students on their post-assessment was this:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i style="text-indent: -0.25in;">“What is the most important thing you learned in this class
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<li><i style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“How to control my digital footprint.”</span></i></li>
<li><i style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“To always stand up for others.”</span></i></li>
<li><i style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“How to be safe and smart and kind online.”</span></i></li>
<li><i style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“Think twice before you do stuff online.”</span></i></li>
<li><i style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“Everything you do online is important.”</span></i></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the end, the average class score was 90.6%
(questions answered correctly). Nearly two-thirds of the class got all 12
questions right (see the questions below).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">In 7<sup>th</sup> grade students learn <span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.cybercivics.com/year-2" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Information Literacy</span></a> </span>skills (how to find, retrieve, analyze, and use online
information), they also learn how, and why, to protect their personal
information online. Like their 6<sup>th</sup> grade peers, their pre-assessment
score was low; overall the class only earned a 12% (percent correct). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Like the 6<sup>th</sup> graders, only some
of the 7<sup>th</sup> graders were familiar with the terminology of web
information and search (i.e., <b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">keywords,
Wikipedia, copyright, fair use, browser, cookies, search engine</i>,</b> etc.). Many lacked a true understanding of what these terms mean and
others were completely off base. For example, one student wrote, “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">a keyword is kind of an important word I
think</i>,” another said, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“’fair use’ is
when you are writing a paragraph, but you put it in your own words.”</i> Some
of their answers were truly hilarious, such as the answers to these questions: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“What is “Creative Commons?” (“commas that
are creative”)</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“What are
‘cookies’”?</i> (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“a tasty treat”).</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Year 2’s assessment was difficult, so I was
very surprised that students did so well, and remembered so much, at the end of
the year (93.5%). Often I give the same assessment to teachers and parents—at workshops
and presentations—and find that even adults struggle with basic questions
regarding Internet research (you can see all the questions below). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Regarding online privacy, one thing is clear,
even students who are just starting to use the Internet, email, social media,
etc. are bothered by the deluge of emails we all suffer from… for example, in
answer to the question: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“What do you
receive in exchange for the personal information you provide an app or website?”</i>
on the pre-assessment one boy responded, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Emails,
so many emails.”</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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grade assessment was:<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<li><i style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">“To know what cookies do.”</span></i></li>
<li><i style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">“How to make a good password."</span></i></li>
<li><i style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">“Now I know what a third party is.”</span></i></li>
<li><i style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">“One day I want to become a famous D.J. so learning about
copyright is very important to me.”</span></i></li>
<li><i style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">“I don’t have a specific most valuable lesson I learned because actually
EVERYTHING is the most important.”</span></i></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When putting <a href="http://www.cybercivics.com/year-3" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Year 3 of CyberCivics</span></a> together, reading, “<a href="http://www.teachthought.com/the-future-of-learning/digital-citizenship-the-future-of-learning/moving-students-from-digital-citizenship-to-digital-leadership/?utm_content=bufferd223b" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Moving Students from Digital Citizenship to Digital Leadership</span></a>” by the TeachThought staff, moved me. This article addresses the
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“moving from mere “citizenship” to inspired
leadership in digital spaces, using two definitions from <a href="http://georgecouros.ca/blog/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">George Couros</span></a>:</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Digital Citizenship: </b>Using the internet and
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Digital Leadership:</b> Using the
internet and social media to improve the lives, well-being, and circumstances
of others.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The idea behind the shift?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A kind of empathy–moving beyond seeing<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7021217866058399291" name="_GoBack"></a> one’s self, and moving towards seeing one’s self in the
physical and digital company of others. As digital technology and social media
become more deeply embedded in our lives, and more nuanced in their function,
this is a shift whose time has come. The question becomes, then, <i>what’s the
next evolution of this idea</i>?”</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So
the third and final year of Cyber Civics--<b>Media Literacy For Positive Participation</b>--is our answer to this question
(call?) with lessons that help students learn how to become <b>powerful media
participants </b>by showing them how to use technology to engage and contribute
in positive ways to the world around them. The first half of the year focuses
on <b>Media Literacy </b>(the ability to
access, analyze, evaluate and create media in a variety of forms), the year
finishes with a final project that challenges students to put together all they’ve
learned during three years of Cyber Civics lessons to transition from being media
consumers to media participants. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Consequently, assessments in Year 3 look different. At the beginning of the year
students self-assess their own media use to determine how much media they
“consume” (i.e., watching YouTube videos, Netflix, etc.) vs. how much they “produce”
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At the end of the year, students self-assessed again to see if
their media “production” had increased, and guess what? We moved the needle!</span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">8th Grade Post-Assessment Example</td></tr>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">These were the class averages at the beginning of the year:</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">96% “consuming”; 4% “producing."</span></li>
</ul>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="background: white; margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .1pt;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And these were class averages at the end of the year:<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<ul>
<li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">59% “consuming”; 41% “producing.”</span></li>
</ul>
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<br /></div>
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<h4>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My
Take-Aways</span></span></b></h4>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Adults often assume that because young people seem so
proficient at using technology (pushing the buttons) that they must also know
how to use it proactively, but this is not the case. Actually, technology is
using them! They need our help, and encouragement, to learn how to use
technology to express themselves, to create positive digital footprints, and to
engage in activities and topics they care about. With a few lessons on these
topics, I found students becoming eager and excited media participants.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<h4>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Final
Analysis</span></span></b></h4>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At the end of the year I asked the 8<sup>th</sup>
graders what lessons they found most valuable, and overwhelmingly they were
grateful for the lessons on <b>Sexting </b>(and also on <b>Photoshop/Visual Literacy</b>). This
was not surprising because of where kids are developmentally, what they
see/hear in the media, and the fact that few adults talk to them about these
topics. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here are sample responses to the question, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“What is the most important thing you
learned this year?”:</i></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><br /></i></span></span></div>
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<li><i><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“The most important thing I
learned is how sexting can ruin your life.”</span></span></i></li>
<li><i><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“Choose friends wisely (because
of sexting).”</span></span></i></li>
<li><i><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“Photoshop is crazy and should
be outlawed.”</span></span></i></li>
<li><i><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“How to handle sexting
situations.”</span></span></i></li>
<li><i><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“C.R.A.P. Detection skills.”</span></span></i></li>
<li><i><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“How to make a positive digital
footprint.”</span></span></i></li>
<li><i><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“How to know if a website is
fake.”</span></span></i></li>
<li><i><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“How to give credit.”</span></span></i></li>
<li><i><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“How to find valuable
information online.”</span></span></i></li>
</ul>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
<div style="background: white; margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .1pt;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Finally, I asked students:</span></span><br />
<br />
<ul>
<li><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What is the most important
thing you learned over the past <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">three</b>
years?”</span></span></i></li>
</ul>
<div>
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
</div>
<div style="background: white; margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .1pt;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here were the most common responses:</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<ul>
<li><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Learning about copyright”</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> (who knew
they’d find this interesting?!)</span></li>
<li><i><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“To ask permission of other
before you post their personal image/info.”</span></span></i></li>
<li><i><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“How to cite online information.”</span></span></i></li>
<li><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“Plagiarism, copyright laws and rules.”</span></i></li>
<li><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“How important my digital footprint is.”</span></i></li>
<li><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“What to do if I see cyberbullying.”</span></i></li>
</ul>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I
think I will let this student have the last word:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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</div>
<ul>
<li><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>“There is nothing not important that I
learned.”</b></span></i></li>
</ul>
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Diana Graber, Founder, Cyber Civicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02258311692853215992noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7021217866058399291.post-14293050757207029082016-07-20T07:52:00.002-07:002016-07-20T11:25:44.080-07:00Social Media and High Schoolers: Will They Ever Learn? <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There’s an urgent and growing need to equip middle school
students with the skills to become ethical, knowledgeable and empowered digital
citizens.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Every competent mind is
able to comprehend this….<i>especially high school students!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Having been a high school teacher and coach for the past
five years, I’ve (over)heard firsthand how damaging the effects of “digital
incidents” can be on students.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>My curiosity, along with my first introduction to <a href="http://www.cybercivics.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Cyber Civics™</span></a>—the
innovative middle school digital citizenship and literacy program—urged me to
investigate further. So I questioned
30 of my students about whether they felt courses in digital literacy and
citizenship in middle school would have been helpful in preparing them for their
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">resounding 30 for 30 said YES!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>When asked if a digital literacy program in middle school would prevent
future “digital incidents” in high school….30 out of 30 said an absolute YES!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not too surprising if you think about
it though.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Shelley Glaze, Educational Director at Journey School – a
K-8 school in Aliso Viejo, California<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7021217866058399291&pli=1" name="_GoBack"></a> says, “Immediately following the
inception of Cyber Civics at our school, there were <b>fewer problems from social
media and cyber-bullying, and now they are virtually non-existent.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The lessons speak to the 21st century
learner. Since the lessons are constantly evolving, they remain current and
relevant.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I asked a recent graduate from Journey School, who went
through all three years of Cyber Civics, how he felt about the program and if he
felt empowered moving into a high school setting with the proper skills and
knowledge of digital literacy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His
response was, “What I appreciated most about the classes is that lessons are not
just applicable to the digital world, but to real life everyday situations as
well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes, I do feel empowered and
ready for high school.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Another graduate of the Cyber Civics program said, “A lot of
high school kids—girls especially—post underwear and bikini shots. That’s not
going to look very good for them later in life. They just don’t think about it.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I think the regular high school kid
isn’t ready for the backlash of social media because they didn’t talk about it
like I did in middle school.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Social media runs rampant throughout most every high school.
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It can be used for good, of course—my high school gained <a href="http://abc7.com/society/aliso-viejo-school-bans-macklemore-students-fight-back/1031804/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">national media attention</span></a> last year when it protested school administration for taking
away a prize of $10,000 for the music department and an on-campus appearance
from musical artist Macklemore. A petition to reverse the decision on
change.org was posted at 8 p.m. on a Monday and had garnered 6,067 signatures
by Tuesday morning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Word spread of
the petition mostly through social media and by Tuesday afternoon the school
reversed its decision.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But the bad and ugly side of social media in high school comes out in the forms of <b>sexting, cyber-bullying and addiction.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A large takeaway from speaking with my students is they felt
<b>those with less face-to-face interacti</b>on and less self-awareness were more
prone to behave poorly on social media sites. Cyber Civics solves this problem by emphasizing critical
thinking, ethical discussion and decision making about digital media issues...through <b>in-person</b> role-play, hands-on projects, and problem solving tasks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So, will high school students ever learn how to behave
appropriately while using social media?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Not if they look to some celebrities or other “active” social media
users who are considered role models (Think Trump, Kardashians, or most
recently <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/dani-mathers-suspended-job-sharing-naked-photo-article-1.2712853" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Dani Mathers)</span></a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But if the
foundation to educate them begins at age 12 (when their brain is able to truly
and ethically reason), and builds year to year on that foundational
knowledge….there is hope.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s not
going to be a one stop or one lesson fix to a gigantic problem.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One movie, or one presentation is not
going to engrain the importance of becoming empowered digital citizens into
middle and high school kids.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
mindset will not be changed overnight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><b>Kids need to think critically about how social media use can be powerful,
not destructive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A place to
connect, not disconnect.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And a
place to learn and become an empowered digital citizen, not a reckless one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">From a high school educator’s
perspective, it’s very promising there’s a <a href="http://www.cybercivics.com/" target="_blank">perfect program</a> that fits the needs
to equip students with these vital “real life” and “digital life” skills. </span></div>
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Diana Graber, Founder, Cyber Civicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02258311692853215992noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7021217866058399291.post-52283458787103778152016-06-28T18:15:00.001-07:002016-06-29T06:30:11.874-07:00We Must Make Time for Lessons in Cyberbullying Prevention<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Cyberbullying is the use of technology to threaten, harass, embarrass and/or target another person, and can be an unfortunate byproduct of digital
life. Although it’s usually easy to spot — a text or social media post
appears threatening or cruel, for example — it can also be less obvious and thus
go undetected (except by the target, of course). Additionally, at the other end
of the spectrum, many are quick to label everyday teasing or “digital drama” as
cyberbullying, sometimes unfairly. It’s a multi-layered and complex topic.<span style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So when I teach students about "cyberbullying" in our first year of the digital literacy program—<span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.cybercivics.com/" style="color: blue;" target="_blank">Cyber Civics</a>—</span>it takes six weeks. Unfortunately, many schools see this as a span of time they simply cannot afford to </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">spend</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> on this topic.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A <span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2016/06/24/peds.2016-1420" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">study out today</span></a> </span>from the
American Academy of Pediatrics underscores why this is so important. This study finds that <b>being bullied, or
spending an excessive amount of time on the Internet, could increase teen
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mind to put all the parts that comprise online interactions, their subtleties and
their impact, in a way that makes sense to them. That’s why we break it into six les<span style="font-size: small;">sons
(<i>after</i> they have a foundational understanding their “online
reputation"):</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Students engage in a fun project that helps them understand
how online communication differs from face-to-face conversation. They also learn how
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Playing out sample scenarios helps students think through the
differences and similarities between cyberbullying and in-person bullying and,
most importantly, encourages them to empathize with the “targets” of both.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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cyberbullying, or bullying of any kind. It also challenges them to craft a “Bullying
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">While not every child will be the target, or perpetrator, of a cyberbullying incident, most will witness online harassment at some point in their lives and not know what to do about it. According to <span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://nobullying.com/">NoBullying.com</a>,</span> "</span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">95% of teens who have witnessed bullying on social media
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If you would like to see the entire Cyber Civics curriculum, including our lessons on cyberbullying, contact us at <a href="mailto:support@cybercivics.com"><span style="color: blue;">support@cybercivics.com</span></a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #0f0f0f;">Diana Graber is founder of
CyberWise.org and CyberCivics.com, two organizations dedicated to helping
adults and kids learn digital literacy skills. A long-time media producer with
an M.A. in “Media Psychology & Social Change,” Graber is also a regular
contributor on digital media topics to <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/diana-graber/" target="_blank">The </a></span><span style="color: #0f0f0f;"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/diana-graber/" target="_blank">Huffington Post</a></span></span><span style="color: #0f0f0f;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> and others. She
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Diana Graber, Founder, Cyber Civicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02258311692853215992noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7021217866058399291.post-11203426709018922142016-05-31T16:08:00.000-07:002016-05-31T16:14:24.506-07:00Demand for Lessons in Cyber Civics Goes Global<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" id="content_LETTER.BLOCK23" style="font-family: ArialMT; width: 100%px;"><tbody>
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<b>Students in Ghana, Africa, To Benefit From U.S.-Based Digital Citizenship and Literacy Program</b><br />
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<span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal;">Cyber Civics™, the innovative middle school digital citizenship and literacy program currently being taught at schools in 20 U.S. states, just added students in Ghana, Africa, to its growing list of young people who are learning how to become <b>thoughtful, ethical, and competent digital citizens.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal;">Awo Aidam Amenyah,
Executive Director of the J Initiative (JI), an organization that seeks to
improve the lives of youth through education in Africa, says she found Cyber
Civics while searching for a program to "inform children and young people
about what impact their online actions can have on themselves and others, both
online and offline, in order for them to get the most out of technology."
With the help of a donation from Millicom Foundation, JI was able to enroll for
the Cyber Civics program that will benefit children and families throughout the
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<span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal;">Students in 20 U.S.
states already participate in this three year, in-school program comprised of
weekly lessons in Digital Citizenship, Information Literacy,
and Media Literacy for Positive Participation. Founded at a public charter
Waldorf school (Journey School) in Aliso Viejo, CA, in 2010, Cyber Civics was
designed to meet the urgent and growing need to equip students with
digital life skills. The program includes lessons on how to use the Internet
safely and responsibly, how to search effectively, avoid plagiarism, understand
copyright, critically evaluate media messages, plus lessons on the productive
and positive use of media tools. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal;"> Available to all
schools and organizations at <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=98ue4txab.0.0.n7hnidhab.0&id=preview&r=3&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cybercivics.com"><span style="color: blue;">www.cybercivics.com</span></a>, the Cyber Civics program has
spread quickly, due in part to <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=98ue4txab.0.0.n7hnidhab.0&id=preview&r=3&p=http%3A%2F%2Fmedialiteracynow.org%2Fyour-state-legislation%2F"><span style="color: blue;">recent legislation</span></a> calling for lessons in
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<span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal;"> "The need for
these kind of lessons has gone global," says Cyber Civic's Founder Diana
Graber, "there are no international borders online." Liz Repking
who represents Cyber Civics in the Central and Eastern regions of the U.S.
concurs, "All kids need to learn safe and appropriate digital behavior,
and how to develop the critical and ethical thinking skills that are applicable
to all areas of their lives."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal;">At a recent forum
on "Internet Rights for Women and Children in Ghana," Amenyah
said that her country "does not have a clear provisions focusing on the
protection of children online, no legislation that criminalizes online grooming
or cyberbullying." There is also no legislation criminalizing access or
visualization of child pornography, which are among the critical challenges
confronting children who use the Internet. </span><br />
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Civics to help her and her team meet these global challenges.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Students today use technology as easily as previous generati<a href="" name="_GoBack"></a>ons used a pencil. But technology is much more powerful than a pen or pencil, and it amplifies opportunities for both help and harm. Kids know how to use phones and computers—often more adeptly than adults. The issue for many educators is teaching them <b>to use these tools <i>wisely</i>.</b> Many schools address that challenge by implementing “digital citizenship” into their curriculum. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How can schools do this? What are the costs, both financial and time, to implementing such curriculum? What are the benefits of building this into the students’ educational experience? These are all very difficult questions to address in an already overcrowded educational landscape.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I recently had the opportunity to observe one class session of Diana Graber’s <a href="http://www.cybercivics.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Cyber Civics</span></a> curriculum, a cutting edge digital citizenship curriculum. At The <a href="http://www.journeyschool.net/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Journey School</span></a> in Aliso Viejo, CA, I sat in on the 8<sup>th</sup> grade class that Diana led on the topic of sexting. This is a critical topic for students at this age for two reasons:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Students need to understand the nature of their romantic relationships. The reality is that these relationships end, and the trust and intention that exists at one moment can quickly be violated. These are challenging issues for us as a society, but they are especially difficult for young teenagers who are attempting to navigate the intersection of relationships with a world of technology.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The success of the session is in the sequential delivery of the content. First, sexting was clearly defined. It was apparent that most students had an incomplete definition of sexting. Second, sexting was discussed and analyzed through the use of a recent current event of sexting in a high school. This allowed Diana to challenge the students to make the connection from the definition to the consequences of the action, both personally and legally. There appeared to be a disconnect for the students on this point. Most students did not realize that the consequences could range from school disciplinary action to legal charges resulting in a criminal record.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The next step in Diana’s session was to allow students a forum where they could examine this issue from an ethical perspective. This was the portion of the class that truly engaged the students and where the quality learning occurred. They discussed the fairness of sending and receiving sexts by thinking through various scenarios of how they could be involved in such situations. They incorporated many of the tenants of Cyber Civics that are the common threads of the entire program: judgment, stereotyping of people, leadership in their communities, especially their online community, and making ethical decisions.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Near the end of the session, one student posed the question "<i>What do I do if someone asks me for nudes?</i>" Great, simple question! Clearly Cyber Civics does an excellent job of moving through topics in an effective, pragmatic way. However, one of the greatest outcomes of implementing the curriculum is that it provides students a safe environment to ask these types of questions as they try to navigate the intersection of ethical, appropriate behavior with access to powerful technology. Cyber Civics provides a venue to tie the characteristics and actions of good citizenship to the digital landscape.</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Find these lessons on Sexting in <span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.cyberwisecert.com/cyber-civics-teach-year-3" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Cyber Civics: Year 3</span></a>.</span></b></span></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="color: #434343; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Liz Repking is the mother of 3 children, ranging in age from elementary school to high school. Entering the workforce over 20 years ago, she has spent the majority of her career working as a technology consultant, developing and delivering a variety of training courses for clients.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #434343;">Five years ago, Liz became acutely aware of the dangers the Internet posed to children like her own. It was apparent that while many parents recognize these dangers, they are uncomfortable and even intimidated by the depth and breadth of the technology our children use. This awareness and recognition led Liz to create </span><a href="http://www.cybersafetyconsulting.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Cyber Safety Consulting</span></a><span style="color: #434343;"> with the goal to educate parents, children and school educators on both the dangers of the Internet as well as tangible solutions for these issues.</span></span><span style="color: #434343; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #434343; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">As the Founder of Cyber Safety Consulting, Liz’s technology and training experience is perfectly paired with her passion for the online safety of our children. She believes that every parent has the ability and knowledge to understand the technology and social networking sites that our children are frequenting. Her mission is to help parents and children create an ongoing conversation around appropriate and safe online behavior. Parents need to increase their comfort and confidence in order to keep their children safe by being involved in their online life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">While there are lots of ways to protect your personal information online, your first line of defense is a a GREAT password.
Unfortunately, many of us have outsourced the work of making a great password to Apple, who
just prompts us with an impossible to remember string of symbols and letters.
Then we further outsource the job of remembering these passwords to third
parties, like <a href="https://lastpass.com/" target="_blank">LastPass</a> …the password-storage company that got famously hacked
last year. </span><span style="color: #343434; font-family: "calibri"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; mso-bidi-font-size: 17.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Yep, you read that right. Somehow hackers were
able to get at the email addresses and encrypted master passwords, as well as
the reminder words and phrases that users stored with LastPass to help users remember their master passwords.</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">I teach students how to do this in Year 2 of <a href="http://www.cybercivics.com/" target="_blank">Cyber Civics</a>, at the end of a unit on "Privacy and Personal Information." They learn that a </span><span style="color: #343434; font-family: "calibri"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; mso-bidi-font-size: 17.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">GREAT password
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cow, who can remember even a master password? So students are taught to use
"mnemonic," or memory device for this task. It works best if it's
something they like. For example, one girl chose her favorite artist, Taylor Swift,
as her mnemonic. With Swift in mind, she came up with this password:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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word of Swift's hit song, "Shake It Off" (employing both upper and
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and ends with the album title (1989). So by thinking of Swift, this student
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plus it should be easy for her to remember. Additionally, she will be encouraged
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students came up with these 3 GREAT passwords. The rest of the class had to try
to guess who each student's “mnemonic” (or famous person) was and, believe it or not, they were incredibly adept
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That’s what students see on the board at the start of their 8th grade </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.cybercivics.com/" target="_blank">Cyber Civics</a></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> “Media Literacy” lessons. It gets their attention. Believe me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I learned this handy acronym in the book, <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Net-Smart-How-Thrive-Online/dp/0262526131" target="_blank">NetSmart: How to Thrive Online</a> </span>(2012) by Stanford University Professor, Howard Rheingold. At the beginning of “<span style="font-weight: bold;">Chapter 2: Crap Detection 101: How to Find What You Need to Know, and How to Decide if its True</span>,” Rheingold quotes Hemingway,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is the essence (<span style="font-style: italic;">if you can actually consider CRAP an essence</span>) of "media literacy." Like its sister terms—digital literacy, digital citizenship, information literacy--“media literacy” isn’t well understood. You’ll find a detailed definition and description of this 21st century skill on the <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.namle.org/" target="_blank">NAMLE</a></span> (National Association of Media Literacy Education) website. On CyberWise, our <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.cyberwise.org/#!media-literacy-hub/c1y03" target="_blank">Media Literacy Hub</a></span> provides a load of “media literacy” resources and information, as well as our short definition,</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="color: #213f92;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Media Literacy is knowing how to critically </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But boring terms and definitions aside, how can we make “media literacy” matter to kids? Tell them it’s C.R.A.P.!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kids today are bombarded with media messages, via their smartphones, computers, tablets, television, and more. In this newly networked world, anyone, anywhere can produce and publish just about anything and thus be viewed as an instant expert. It’s hard to cut through the, <span style="font-style: italic;">well</span>, crap. That’s where Rheingold’s handy acronym comes in. It helps, no actually it is ESSENTIAL, to give kids the tools to accurately assess online information. That’s why I teach them to give online information Rheingold’s four-part test:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">-Howard Rheingold, "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Net-Smart-How-Thrive-Online/dp/0262526131" target="_blank">Net Smart: How To Thrive Online</a>"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In Cyber Civics we treat this as a two-part lesson, applying C.R.A.P. Detection skills to a host of websites that students are asked to evaluate using the four points above. We revisit the C.R.A.P. test throughout the year, applying it to all the media messages we evaluate-- from gender and race stereotypes, to political campaigns (a wealth of crap there), to doctored photos, and much more. <span style="color: #403e3e; font-size: 14pt;"></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last year I even overheard one student recommending to her mother to use the C.R.A.P. test to evaluate a questionable email she'd received from a banker in Nigeria.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So in honor of this week--National Media Literacy Week--let's all start talking about C.R.A.P. Because sometimes it takes a scatological reference to make media literacy matter. Thank you Rheingold!</span></div>
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Diana Graber, Founder, Cyber Civicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02258311692853215992noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7021217866058399291.post-15548821971216708672015-10-14T20:27:00.003-07:002015-10-14T20:34:08.134-07:00Participating in the First-Ever Digital Citizenship Summit<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Earlier this month the first-ever Digital Citizenship Summit took place in West Hartford, CT. It was an awesome gathering of digital citizenship educators (yes there is such a thing), supporters, and advocates. These are people who work tirelessly to make the Internet a kinder and safer place for our children. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">I was honored to participate as a presenter, sharing stories from the Cyber Civics classroom. Although</span> it's not quite engaging without audio or a chance to participate in the actual activities, here is a copy of my presentation. </span></div>
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Diana Graber, Founder, Cyber Civicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02258311692853215992noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7021217866058399291.post-74437568948947340262015-08-31T13:01:00.000-07:002015-08-31T21:06:34.100-07:00When Schools Use Tech, They Need a Plan<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #292929;">Two years ago, the Los Angeles Unified School District
(LAUSD), the nation’s second largest school district, initiated a $1-billion
plan to equip students with iPads. Within weeks, the program </span><a href="http://digital.hechingerreport.org/content/the-inside-story-on-la-schools-ipad-rollout-a-colossal-disaster_914/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">made headlines</span></a><span style="color: #292929;"> when hundreds of students started accessing social media sites, among other things. School official quickly recalled most of the devices and the debacle contributed to the departure of the superintendent and other top staff and led to an ongoing FBI investigation. </span></span></div>
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year of Cyber Civics. Although, like the first year of the program,</span><span style="color: blue;"> <a href="http://www.cybercivics.com/#!year-2/c13nq" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">CyberCivics: Year 2</span></a> </span><span style="color: #292929;">can be taught entirely without technology, many schools (like
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establishment of classroom agreements on the use of technology. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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lot of time online, most of it away from the watchful eyes of parents and
teachers. So any “rules” we set for them aren’t nearly as effective as “agreements”
they make together. Kids like being the architects of the norms that rule <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">their</i> digital spaces.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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students about what happened in LAUSD; I tell them how the kids in L.A.
“hacked” their iPads in only 10 days. The first question? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #292929;">Then we take a look at the </span><a href="https://www.fosi.org/good-digital-parenting/online-safety-cards-kids-technology-gifts/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Online Safety Cards </span></a><span style="color: #292929;">offered by Good Digital Parenting. These cards set some
terrific ground rules and are a great place to start. To solicit students’ input
and, more importantly, their buy-in, we use these cards as a template to craft our own agreement between the students and the school. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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changes/additions to these “rules.” You'd be surprised, as I am every year,
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how to get around our measures to “protect” them, they also know better than anyone
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #292929;">Last week </span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.latimes.com/local/education/la-me-lausd-tech-20150818-story.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">an update</span></a> </span><span style="color: #292929; font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">on LAUSD’s technology “plan” ran
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #262626;">In that first year [of the iPad roll-out], students
initially could have taken the iPads home; later, they couldn't. The next year,
students were allowed to use the iPads only during a single class period, every
other day. Last year, students didn't receive the devices until they were in
the third month of school.</span><span style="color: #262626;"> </span></span></blockquote>
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demonstrate that they can make good use of the devices. Valley Academy was the
first to get such a plan approved. As of last week, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">it was the only school with an approved plan,</b> but other campuses
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<span style="color: #292929; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hmmm, I’m thinking about lending some of our students
out as consultants to LAUSD to help them with their plan. What do you think?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Diana Graber, Founder, Cyber Civicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02258311692853215992noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7021217866058399291.post-86221292545511688682015-07-21T08:28:00.000-07:002015-07-21T08:29:21.762-07:00Digital Literacy Classes Raise Other Scores<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Dr. Jane Karwoski of the Social Network Show recently invited me to talk to her about<span style="color: blue;"> <a href="http://www.cybercivics.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Cyber Civics</span></a></span>, the middle school digital literacy program that equips students to be ethical and competent users of technology. We talked about a lot of topics, including the actual lessons, three tips for parents, and how these classes raise test scores. You can <a href="http://thesocialnetworkstation.com/digital-literacy-classes-raise-other-scores/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">read about it here</span></a> or <a href="http://thesocialnetworkstation.com/digital-literacy-classes-raise-other-scores/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">listen to the entire podcast here</span></a>.<br />
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<br />Diana Graber, Founder, Cyber Civicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02258311692853215992noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7021217866058399291.post-89125541342636414752014-11-03T18:40:00.003-08:002014-11-03T18:52:17.886-08:00A Funny Thing Happens When You Teach Media Literacy: Kids Get Smarter<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The average 8- to 18-year old spends more time with media
than they do with their parents or in school. They are assaulted by media
messages nearly eight hours per day— 10 hours and 45 minutes if you account for
multitasking — on smart phones, tablets, laptops, televisions, and computers. Much
of this media comes at them unfiltered, as few gatekeepers (formally known as editors)
check the veracity of things posted on the Internet (like this blog post) that
can be written by just about anybody. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yet little to no “media literacy” is being taught in the
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">is</i> being taught,
however, at the school my kids attended. That’s because I asked the principal
if I could teach “media literacy” as part of our <span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.cyberwise.org/#!cyber-civics/c22oq" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Cyber Civics curriculum</span></a> </span>and he, surprisingly, said yes. That was five years ago and now our robust,
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Students spend the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">entire</i>
8<sup>th</sup> grade year—one hour per week—using critical thinking skills to
evaluate media messages. After a primer class on C.R.A.P Detection, courtesy of
<span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.rheingold.com/howard/"><span style="color: blue;">Howard Rheingold</span></a> </span>(if you don’t
know what this is read about it <a href="http://dianagraber-cybercivics.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-crap-kids-remember-in-class.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">here</span></a>),
we dig in, critically evaluating and discussing images, video, music, text, and
more. We grapple with stereotypes, extreme photoshopping, online scams, and
urban legends. These students leave middle school equipped with critical
evaluation skills that will help them in high school and beyond.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Even though media literacy <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">and</i> digital literacy is embedded in the new Common Core standards,
few schools take the time to teach these skills, but they should. Not only
because it’s the job of schools to pump out literate students, and today
literacy encompasses a broad spectrum of media, but also because it makes
students smarter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At<span style="color: blue;"> <a href="http://www.journeyschool.net/" target="_blank">our school</a></span><a href="http://www.journeyschool.net/" target="_blank"> </a>STAR
test scores have risen consistently and significantly (the highest point gain
in our district) since we started teaching Cyber Civics, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">despite </i>the hour per week from “academic” time these classes take. When
I tell fellow media literacy educators about these outcomes they are not
surprised, because media literacy teaches critical thinking… and critical
thinking makes kids smarter. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And it’s as simple as that. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Diana Graber is Co-founder of <a href="http://www.cyberwise.org/">Cyberwise.org</a>, where you can visit our <a href="http://www.cyberwise.org/#!media-literacy-hub/c1y03">Media Literacy Hub</a>.
She also created and teaches Cyber Civics™, learn about it <a href="http://www.cyberwise.org/#!cyber-civics/c22oq">here</a>.</span></div>
Diana Graber, Founder, Cyber Civicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02258311692853215992noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7021217866058399291.post-12636793192901995432014-10-14T14:58:00.001-07:002014-10-14T17:53:43.981-07:00Digital Literacy Has a Winning Weekend<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">(Cross-posted on iKeepSafe's Blog)</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;"><b>Project Tomorrow "Innovation in Education" Award Finalists</b></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Last
week in California, <span style="color: #262626;">the</span><span style="color: #e69138;"> </span><span style="color: orange;"><a href="http://www.tomorrow.org/programs/innovationawards.html"><i><span style="color: orange;">2014 Project
Tomorrow Innovation in Education Awards</span></i></a> </span><span style="color: #262626;">were presented at the
21st Annual High-Tech Innovation Awards dinner reception. This high profile
event, held in tandem with the </span><a href="http://www.octechalliance.com/"><span style="color: orange;">O.C. Tech Alliance</span></a><span style="color: #262626;">’s
corporate awards, attracts over 300 business and community leaders each year.
It recognizes corporations, schools, and individuals demonstrating i</span>nnovative
uses of science, math and technology in the classroom and community.<br /> <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #262626;">Our school, where I teach </span><a href="http://www.cyberwise.org/#!cyber-civics/c22oq"><span style="color: orange;">Cyber Civics</span></a><span style="color: #262626;"> (or,
“digital literacy”), was a runner-up for this program and received a grant to expand
it (the well deserved winner was the</span><span style="color: orange;"> </span><a href="http://www.sausd.us/Domain/2116"><span style="color: #e69138;">Jose Sepulveda Elementary School</span></a><span style="color: #262626;">). Even
though we didn’t win, we felt like winners nonetheless…simply because “digital
literacy” was invited to the table. We were honored that Project Tomorrow and
the OC Tech Alliance recognized the important contribution that digital
literacy—<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">knowing how to use digital tools
wisely, competently, and safely</i>— makes to the world of innovation.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #262626;"><br /><o:p></o:p></span><span style="color: #262626;">Longtime digital literacy evangelist Glen Warren of
McPherson Magnet School, who I met through working on iKeepSafe’s BE a PRO
Digital Literacy program, was also a Project Tomorrow finalist. So for our mutual
cause of digital literacy, it truly felt like a double-header.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #262626;"><br /></span><span style="color: #262626;">Upon the heels of the Project Tomorrow gala, educators
from several western states gathered for the </span><span style="color: #e69138;"><a href="http://www.journeyschool.net/special-events/"><span style="color: #e69138;">Educating the Whole Child in the
Digital Age Workshop</span></a> </span><span style="color: #262626;">at Journey School. They came to learn about our “innovative”
three-year, middle school Cyber Civics program and how, and why, to take the
lessons back to their own schools. I was honored to present alongside Waldorf
educator, mentor, and cognitive development expert Patti Connolly, longtime
media literacy educator Patty Page, and </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/cybersafetycopo.com"><span style="color: orange;">Cyber Safety Cop</span></a><span style="color: #e69138;"> </span><span style="color: #262626;">and
online safety expert Deputy Clay Cranford.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #262626;"><br /><o:p></o:p></span><span style="color: #262626;">Educators left the workshop enthused about sharing lessons
on digital citizenship, information literacy, and media literacy with their own
students, as one educator put it:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #262626;">I’m inspired by the program, the brain research, and the
critical thinking skills. I love the words </span><i style="color: #262626;">cyber
civics, ethical thinking</i><span style="color: #262626;">, and </span><i style="color: #262626;">social
cognition</i><span style="color: #262626;">. This workshop raised my awareness and I’m committed to adding
this to the curriculum.</span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #262626;">It was a great weekend, and as it turns out the real
winners will be the students empowered with “innovative” digital literacy skills.</span></span></div>
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Diana Graber, Founder, Cyber Civicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02258311692853215992noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7021217866058399291.post-15163393224645616342014-02-28T14:34:00.000-08:002014-02-28T14:34:59.821-08:00iPads Coming to Your School? Be Prepared!<h4>
<i style="font-weight: normal;">This post is reprinted with permission from <a href="http://www.aplatformforgood.org/teachers/blog/entry/ipads-coming-to-your-school-be-prepared">A Platform For Good</a>. It is about Journey School's 8th grade class getting iPads in the classroom.</i></h4>
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The educational landscape in Los Angeles experienced a shake-up last fall, when the LAUSD, the nation’s second largest school district, initiated its $1-billion plan to equip all of its students with iPads. Immediately after the devices were issued, the program made <a href="http://lat.ms/MrEVfc" style="background-color: transparent; color: #932b8f; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">headlines</a> when hundreds of students bypassed security measures and started accessing, from home, sites like Pandora and Facebook. School officials quickly recalled many of the devices as they tried to figure out what to do next.</div>
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Yesterday, we handed out iPads for the first time at Journey School in Aliso Viejo, CA, just south of L.A., so I shared this story with my class. When I told them that the kids in L.A. had “hacked” their iPads in only 10 days my students had just one question.</div>
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“What took them so long?”</div>
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Kids, you see, know a lot more about all this technology stuff than we do. Watching the LAUSD story unfold was a good wake-up call and reminder for educators (and parents) that “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”</div>
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Our preventative program started four years ago, with <a href="http://www.journeyschool.net/innovation/digital-literacy/" style="background-color: transparent; color: #932b8f; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Cyber Civics</a>, a three-year, digital literacy class I teach starting in 6th grade. These weekly classes equip students with the skills they need to use the Internet safely and wisely; still, we wanted to implement an additional precautionary measure.</div>
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<a href="http://www.aplatformforgood.org/teachers/blog/entry/www.aplatformforgood.org/pages/online-safety-cards" style="background-color: transparent; clear: left; color: #932b8f; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="Online Safety for Tablets" src="http://www.aplatformforgood.org/page/-/tablet.png" height="320" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; float: left; height: 208px; margin: 5px 8px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 150px;" width="230" /></a>So we downloaded A Platform for Good’s <a href="http://www.aplatformforgood.org/pages/online-safety-cards" style="background-color: transparent; color: #932b8f; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Online Safety Cards</a>from this site; these are excellent resources for a parent or teacher planning to hand a digital device to a child. These cards set some terrific ground rules, so to ensure our students’ buy-in and, more importantly, their input, we used these cards as a template to craft our own agreement between the students and the school. </div>
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I asked students to recommend changes/additions to these “rules” and was surprised by all of the “what-if” scenarios they imagined.</div>
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They wanted to know:</div>
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<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">What happens if an iPad is broken or the screen is cracked? Who pays for it?</li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Do the devices have warranty protection, or protective covers?</li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">What about passwords? Security settings? Shouldn’t we set these up together as a learning experience? (Since they could likely hack anything we set up without their input, they may as well learn how to manage the security settings on their own devices, right?)</li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Should there be rules about taking/posting photos of other students? What about their privacy?</li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Should they have a class email account?</li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">What about educational apps? Could we set up an approval procedure for possible downloads?</li>
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And on, and on. The point is that while kids know an awful lot about how to get around our measures to “protect” them, they can also be taught (by us) how to protect themselves.</div>
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I’m thinking about hiring these kids out as consultants for future iPad rollouts, what do you think?</div>
Diana Graber, Founder, Cyber Civicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02258311692853215992noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7021217866058399291.post-4091688570357033412013-12-18T15:00:00.005-08:002013-12-19T08:01:35.731-08:00A Gift Kids Really Want: A Digital Parent!<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Yesterday I taught one of
my favorite <a href="http://www.commonsensemedia.org/educators/curriculum">Common Sense Media</a> lessons during a 6<sup>th</sup> grade Cyber Civics </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">class. Called “Chart It,” this lesson challenges </span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial;">students
to think through online ethical dilemmas — like a friend posting an
unflattering photo on Facebook, a classmate cutting and pasting freely from the
Internet for a homework assignment, or a girl posting misinformation on her
blog. This lesson helps kids explore whether online acts like these are <i>intentional</i> or <i>unintentional</i>, and meant to be <i>hurtful</i>
or <i>helpful</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-bidi-font-size: 15.0pt;">We spend a lot of time in this
class sharing examples of online interactions like the ones above. <i>And parents,
I really hate to be the bearer of bad news, particularly right before the
holidays, but guess what? Most of their examples involve us. </i></span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial;">Here’s what the kids say:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-bidi-font-size: 15.0pt;">-My mom <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">intentionally</i> posted an unflattering photo of me on Facebook that
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-bidi-font-size: 15.0pt;">After one of these lessons, a
boy said to me, “You really should be teaching this class to our parents.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-bidi-font-size: 15.0pt;"><a href="http://www.cyberwisecert.com/get-digital">Get Digital</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-bidi-font-size: 15.0pt;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-bidi-font-size: 15.0pt;">is a course created <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">exactly</i>
for this reason.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial;">This series of online,
self-paced lessons helps grownups understand the essentials of digital life. In
fact there is a whole unit of classes in this course on “Digital Citizenship” that
includes many of the lessons I’ve been teaching to kids for the past four
years. Just launched in time for the holidays, this CyberWise Certified course
makes a great gift for </span><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial;">teachers tasked with teaching digital literacy, parents
looking to understand the digital world our kids inhabit, and administrators
looking to understand how digital media impacts education.</b><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial;"> It’s a gift that
delivers lifelong returns.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-bidi-font-size: 15.0pt;">When I told the kids about
“Get Digital” for grownups, they immediately wanted to know if it included
lessons about the social networks they love most, like Instagram, Tumblr, and Snapchat.
(It does). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-bidi-font-size: 15.0pt;">Here are a few other
precious take-aways for parents from the kids:</span></div>
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<li><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Don’t talk so much on the phone in the
car or in public places.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Learn some of the online games we play, and maybe even play
with us.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When something bad happens, instead of restricting us from
technology, help us understand and talk about it first.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No smartphones or iPads/tablets at school and sporting
events, please.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Help me do my schoolwork online (telling me not to use
Wikipedia doesn’t count).</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a;">At least </span><i style="color: #1a1a1a;">try</i><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"> to learn more about social media and
technology so we can talk about it with you.</span></span></li>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-bidi-font-size: 15.0pt;">In other words,<a href="http://www.cyberwisecert.com/get-digital"> </a></span><span style="color: blue;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-bidi-font-size: 15.0pt;"><a href="http://www.cyberwisecert.com/get-digital">get digital</a></span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-bidi-font-size: 15.0pt;">.</span></i></span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-bidi-font-size: 15.0pt;"> We hope to see you
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Diana Graber, Founder, Cyber Civicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02258311692853215992noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7021217866058399291.post-30000912267159452542013-12-18T13:35:00.000-08:002013-12-18T15:01:17.251-08:00A Case for Cyber Civics<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Cross-Posted on <a href="http://www.ikeepsafe.org/educational-issues/lessons-on-cybercivics-too-important-to-ignore/">iKeepSafe's Blog</a>.</span></div>
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daughter, who is busy working on her college applications, received this
message from her counselor yesterday:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">“</span><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>Just
received an email from the National Association of College Admission Counseling
(NACAC)… a friendly reminder that colleges are reading your social media.</i>”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">Today, in addition to having a sky-high GPA and equally
impressive test scores, kids also need to have a squeaky clean “digital
footprint.” Unfortunately, by 12<sup>th</sup> grade that “digital footprint”
might as well be set in stone, it’s permanent and it started taking shape the
day they posted their first picture on Facebook.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">Last week I introduced the concept of the “digital
footprint” to a sixth grade class just starting to use social media to define
themselves to the world. Pretending they had to hire someone for a job at their
school, students conducted “background checks” on potential candidates by
studying each applicant’s social media accounts. What they learned through this
exercise is that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">everything you say and post
online, and everything other people say or post about you, becomes part of your
“digital footprint.” </i>This is the same digital footprint that college
admissions officers will potentially see and judge them by; the same digital footprint
that will help shape their future.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">I’m fortunate to be able to spend an hour per week
with grades 6-8 teaching </span><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;"><a href="http://www.journeyschool.net/innovation/digital-literacy/">CyberCivics</a>.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;"> We cover important topics like <i>online reputations,
online safety, copyright, plagiarism, cyberbullying, </i>and more. According to
research conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation, our kids are spending more
time online than in school or with their families. So I was surprised to read in
the L.A. Times earlier this week, this concern posed about teaching students lessons
on “copyright”: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>"While it's certainly a worthy topic of
discussion with students, I'm sure some teachers would have a concern that
adding anything of any real length to an already packed school day would take
away from the basic curriculum that they're trying to get through now,"
</i>said Frank Wells, spokesman for the California Teachers Assn.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">That was a concern at our school too, however in
the three years of our pilot program the school’s API (Academic Performance
Index) score has risen steadily and significantly, despite the loss of
“academic” time. It’s also given the administrator more time too, as incidences
of “cyberbullying” and such that used to find their way into his office a
couple times per week have virtually vanished since we started the program.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: x-small;">Cross-posted on iKeepSafe's Blog</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Digital Media Literacy education is
primarily a top-down endeavor: adults design curriculum based upon what <i>they</i>
think kids should know about the digital world. It’s sort of like Martians deciding
what Earthlings need to know about life on this planet. Sure we do our best, but
at the end of the day many of </span><i style="font-family: Calibri;">us </i><span style="font-family: Calibri;">are
still trying to sort out the difference between a </span><i style="font-family: Calibri;">text, </i><span style="font-family: Calibri;">a</span><i style="font-family: Calibri;"> tweet</i><span style="font-family: Calibri;">, and a </span><i style="font-family: Calibri;">timeline.</i><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> Additionally, while we generally
cover the risk-prevention/online safety stuff well; we're not so good at imparting the skills that actually empower kids to use their digital
tools masterfully.</span></div>
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give you some very smart answers. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">For example, at the completion of a three-year
pilot program in Digital Citizenship, Information Literacy, and Media Literacy at
Journey School, what we call </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><a href="http://www.journeyschool.net/innovation/digital-literacy/">Cyber Civics</a></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">,</span> I asked
the kids to tell me which lessons they found most valuable.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">The overwhelming answer? CRAP Detection. Yes I admit, that’s an
acronym hard to forget. But it’s also an incredibly useful tool for finding the
trees in a forest of online information. In short, CRAP Detection comes from </span><span style="color: #262526; font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 19.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">the
book,<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Net-Smart-How-Thrive-Online/dp/0262017458"> </a></span><i><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 19.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Net-Smart-How-Thrive-Online/dp/0262017458">NetSmart: How to Thrive Online</a></span></i><i><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 19.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> </span></i><span style="color: #262526; font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 19.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">(2012)
by Stanford University Professor, Howard Rheingold. It suggests that we evaluate online information based on the
following criteria:</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Is this fact or opinion? Is it biased?</span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 15.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Is the creator/author trying to sell you something?</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">The second two things the kids liked learning
about most were <b>Copyright </b>and <b>Plagiarism.</b> Now this was surprising to
me, because those aren’t topics you’d think an 8<sup>th</sup> grader would
remember fondly, yet as one student wrote,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">“I liked learning about copyright rules so I don’t get arrested or
kicked out of high school.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Here are the other lessons the students liked
most: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">“The most valuable thing I learned was to check to see if websites
are trustworthy.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">“That every time you post something online it sticks onto your
digital footprint like permanent glue.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">“That technology shouldn’t take over our lives.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">“That passwords should be around 8 characters w/symbols and
numbers.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">“That people in magazines are photo-shopped and no one is perfect.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">And finally, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">“Don’t post anything you wouldn’t want your parents to see.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Amen to that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">By: Piper Graber, Age 14. Piper is the narrator of <span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdLR4ANs2AI">What Kids Are (Really) Doing Online</a>. </span>Cross-posted on <a href="http://www.ikeepsafe.org/parenting/ask-fm-and-ask-again/">iKeepSafe Blog</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Last month my mom wrote </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">on
this blog (see below) about an incident that happened in my 8<sup>th</sup> grade class surrounding Ask.fm, a website that lets users pose and answer questions anonymously: </span><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 19px; line-height: 26px;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Grande"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>A student in
our class was the recipient of a cruel post on Ask.fm. In this case, the victim
was smart, and shared this information with a trusted adult. Their teacher
turned this unfortunate situation into a terrific learning opportunity by
addressing the situation in class, and also alerted the parents. The parents
responded largely by advising one another to have their kids drop the site.</i></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">This post is a follow-up:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">After spending a good part
of my last week of school discussing a “bullying” situation that happened on
Ask.fm, I was shocked when I saw a post on Instagram by the same girl who was
bullied. She posted, “Ask me questions” with a link to her re-opened Ask.fm
account. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">After my initial disbelief,
I decided to click on the link and see for myself if she really had reopened her
account. Lo and behold, she had. I was angry and upset that she decided to
ignore all the advice given by her teacher and classmates after three long days
of discussing the incident. After all, we had all come to the conclusion that given
her situation, it would be best for her to discontinue her account on Ask.fm.
Her mom even sent emails around to all the parents of the class assuring
everyone that her daughter would never use that site again (and suggesting that
we shouldn’t use it either). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">So I decided to “ask” her
this question:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Calibri;">“Why would you put yourself in the same situation
after making such a big deal about being bullied the first time around?”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Thoroughly puzzled by her
motives, I was anxious to see the answer she would give me, but the answer I
received was not quite what I was looking for. Instead she responded eloquently: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">“<i>Go (blank) a (male’s private
parts)</i>.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Now the thing I’d like to
point out here, is that the device did not make her respond the way she did. In
fact, it did not force her to respond at all. This was a result of her own
thinking skills. So before you blame the tool, remember it’s not the phone’s
job to raise your child. It’s yours. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><i><b>And taking away the shoe
isn’t going to stop your child from walking.</b></i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">So my advice is this: When
it comes to digital tools and your
kids, don’t just ask once, but ask and ask again. Here is a helpful list of
things to ask your child:</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Calibri;">If you can’t take the heat of a potentially
cruel statement online, should you be using that app or website in the first
place?</span></li>
</ul>
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<li><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Do you ever post anything that you wouldn’t
want your grandma to see?</span></li>
</ul>
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<li><span style="font-family: Calibri;">If something cruel has happened to you
before online, have you taken steps to make sure it won’t happen again (like
blocking anonymous questions on Ask.fm)?</span></li>
</ul>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">As a daughter, I would rather have my mom ask
me these questions and even ask to look at my social network accounts with me,
rather than going behind my back, or worse, not asking me anything at all. So remember,
just ask, and ask again.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Unfortunately in this case my peer didn’t get
a chance to be in the </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><a href="http://www.journeyschool.net/innovation/digital-literacy/"><span style="color: blue;">Cyber Civics</span></a></span> <span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">classes in 6<sup>th</sup>
and 7<sup>th</sup> grades where we talked about all this stuff. Too bad,
because then she wouldn’t be asking for more trouble on ask.fm.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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is it with parents and the knee jerk reaction to technology?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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child on _______________ (fill in the blank with today’s most popular app/social
networking site). We response by either, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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demanding they delete the offending app and/or social networking site from
their device. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Problem
solved.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">But
is it, <i>really</i>?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">This all-too-common
scenario played out in our </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><a href="http://www.journeyschool.net/innovation/digital-literacy/">Cyber Civics</a></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> class last week. The offending site was Ask.fm. In case you aren’t familiar with it,
Ask.fm is a service that lets users pose and answer questions anonymously. It’s
integrated with other popular social networking sites like Facebook, Tumblr and
Twitter, which means responses are posted on those sites too. What kids like
about Ask.fm is its anonymity. However it’s this very feature that potentially
makes it fertile ground for cyberbullies. In fact, Ask.fm has fallen under a
lot of scrutiny recently due to allegations that activity on the site has led
to a half dozen teenage suicides. Meanwhile, the number of people who use the service
has swelled to 50 million in just a short period of time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Just the thought that this site might
be responsible for teen suicide is enough to make us want to protect our children
from it. However, when it comes to technology, or anything for that matter, it’s
our job<i> not just to protect, but also to prepare our kids. </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">A
student in our class was the recipient of a cruel post on ask.fm. In this case,
the victim was smart, and shared this information with a trusted adult. Their
teacher turned this unfortunate situation into a terrific learning opportunity
by addressing the situation in class, and also alerted the parents. Parents
responded largely by advising one another to have their kids drop the site.
While this is certainly a valid option — part of being a digital citizen is
realizing we have choices, and those choices influence what survives in the
marketplace — it might not be the wisest long-term solution.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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is best explained by </span><a href="http://www.netfamilynews.org/"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">NetFamilyNews</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">.org’s news Ann
Collier: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">“<i>So there’s always going to be a site that
everybody’s going to love to hate, and we’re not helping children develop the
self-respect, empathy and resilience that will truly protect them by getting
caught up in an endless frustrating game of whack-a-mole. It also doesn’t help
our credibility with our kids and – even when sites show little or no corporate
responsibility – the sites aren’t the root problem.</i>”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">If
it’s not ask.fm today, then it’s going to be something else tomorrow (or
yesterday, like </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><a href="http://www.ikeepsafe.org/parenting/it-takes-a-village-to-understand-an-app-called-vine/">Vine</a></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">). It’s time
for us to face the fact that technology isn’t going anywhere. In order to be
resilient digital citizens our kids <i>need</i>
be prepared with strategies that enable them to thrive in the digital world. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">That’s
what our Cyber Civics classes are intended to do — prepare kids to be wise and
capable users of the tools. Asking them to shoot the messenger, so to speak,
doesn’t achieve this goal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">This
unfortunate incident provided an excellent opportunity to investigate how to
use the site wisely. For example:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;">Users can choose to prevent anonymous
questions by going to their privacy settings and selecting, “Do not allow
anonymous questions.”</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;">In
the event you observe someone violating the “Terms” of the site (you and your
child can read these together), such as the rule prohibiting “pornographic,
obscene, offensive, threatening, harassing, libelous, hate-oriented, harmful,
defamatory, racist, illegal or other wise objectionable material or content,” you
can (and should) do something about it. Report the incident by clicking on
“report as” which appears below every question, answer and comment. On mobile
apps you can tap the flag button.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;">Or
you can directly contact a guy named Eric, whose link is found on the site.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Although leaving the site is certainly a respectable option, learning (and
teaching) how to be a proactive user might be a better solution. Or writing
about what you don’t like about Ask.fm on other social networks, as many of
the victim’s classmates did, is also a terrific way to demonstrate proactive
behavior. Bad conduct happens online and off. <i>Doing</i> something
about it instills, in the words of Ann, “ <i>self-respect,
empathy and resilience</i>.” </span><br />
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Diana Graber, Founder, Cyber Civicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02258311692853215992noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7021217866058399291.post-85187379888823158332013-05-06T13:34:00.004-07:002013-05-06T13:41:52.915-07:00What Kids Are (Really) Doing Online<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Maybe
you’ve heard? It appears that Facebook is losing its groove. A recent
<a href="http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/10/facebook-still-reigns-supreme-with-teens-but-social-media-interest-dwindling/"><span style="background-color: white; color: blue;">survey </span></a>of 5,200 teenagers found that while 33% called Facebook their “most
important” social network in Spring ‘12, by Spring of this year that number had
fallen to just 25%. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">An
unofficial survey of the eighth graders in my Cyber Civics class at <a href="http://www.journeyschool.net/innovation/digital-literacy/"><span style="color: blue;">Journey School</span></a> yielded even worse news for Facebook. During a project that involved using
social media, I asked the students how many of them used Facebook and not a
single hand was raised. Instagram? Every hand shot up. Other social networks of choice
included Snapchat, Vine, and Kik Messenger.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">If
none of these apps sound familiar to you, you’re not alone. Most parents (and
educators) are largely unaware of what their kids are doing on their digital
devices, and that’s too bad because <a href="http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2011/Teens-and-social-media/Part-4/Online-safety-and-parent-involvement.aspx"><span style="color: blue;">research</span></a> shows that kids look to their parents
more than any other source to learn how to conduct their online lives. It’s
hard to be a good role model when you don’t know what it is you are modeling. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">We hope that this video: “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdLR4ANs2AI"><span style="color: blue;">What Kids are (Really) Doing Online</span></a>” will
help. It’s a key element of iKeepSafe’s <a href="http://www.ikeepsafe.org/be-a-pro-mobile/"><span style="color: blue;">BE a PRO workshops</span></a> </span><span style="font-size: large;">to
improve family literacy sponsored by Verizon Wireless and the California School Library Association (CSLA).
The first phase rollout, called “BE a PRO Mobile: Connect with Confidence” is
currently being introduced to a few select California schools. These workshops help
bridge the generational gap many families are experiencing with technology by
providing digital literacy and citizenship education. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">In
addition to being research-based, this video has also been kid-approved. The
narrator is not a professional voice actress but an actual device-using, 14-year
old (full disclosure: my daughter) whose agent (my other daughter) insisted
that her participation in this project be contingent upon full script-approval.
In other words, what you will learn about “What Kids Are (Really) Doing Online”
comes directly from the source.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">If
you have any questions after watching, please visit the </span><a href="http://www.cyberwise.org/NewsWise.html#.UYfkJJUsdQ0"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="color: blue;">NewsWise</span></span></a><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> section of the CyberWise
website for current news articles and research about what kids are up to
online. Good luck.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Recently, while giving a presentation on "Digital Literacy" to a group of K-8 parents, I shared some
interesting data from a <span style="text-decoration: none;"><a href="http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2011/Teens-and-social-media/Part-3/Sharing-passwords.aspx"><span style="color: blue;">Pew Internet & American Life Project</span></a><span style="color: blue;"> </span></span>report regarding kids and their online passwords.
In this study Pew found that <b>30 percent of 12-17 year olds
who were regularly online had share</b><b>d a password</b> with a friend, boyfriend or
girlfriend, and that almost <b>half of those 14-17 do the same.
</b>In fact, in more than two dozen interviews, parents,
students and counselors said that the practice had become widespread.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When a parent in the room asked me <i>why</i> kids share their passwords, I couldn’t
give them a good reason. So I decided to take this question directly to the
students in my 8<sup>th</sup> grade Cyber Civics class.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Their response? Simply this: they <i>like</i> to share. Remember, this is a
generation who has grown up immersed in an online world where the ethos of <i>community</i>, <i>collaboration</i>, and <i>networking</i>
is the norm. Here are three examples from their online world:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<li><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">Wikipedia:</b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">
The free online encyclopedia that everyone can edit and use.</span></li>
<li><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">Instagram:</b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">
The online photo and social networking site that also lets users share what
they upload with friends and followers on Facebook and Twitter.</span></li>
<li><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">Flickr:</b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">
the online photo-sharing website where everyone can upload and view one
another’s photos.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The other reason kids like to share their
passwords, according to this 8<sup>th</sup> grade class, is because passwords are
hard to remember, so it helps to have a friend who can help remember them for
you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This second reason provided an opportunity to use
a terrific lesson that gives kids a strategy for making and remembering
passwords. This lesson (albeit a bit tweaked) comes from <a href="http://www.commonsensemedia.org/educators/curriculum"><span style="color: blue;">Common Sense Media’s Digital Literacy and Citizenship</span></a> free curriculum. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For this lesson every student received a slip of
paper with the name of a famous person on it (an actor, musician, political or
historical figure). Their task was to create password using that person as a
mnemonic device while also following five simple rules (parents take note, these rules are for you too!). Every password should:</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Include upper and lowercase letters.</span></li>
<li><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Include numbers and symbols.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Be
at least eight characters in length.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Contain
no personal information.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Use
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kids
love challenges like this one and these students came up with some really creative
and funny passwords. But the best part was the follow-up activity: every
student wrote his or her password on the board, then the entire class tried to
guess the person behind each password by playing a “Charades”-like guessing
game. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here’s
an example of one of their passwords:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> <b>Sfttr24UK!!</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In case you can’t figure it out… the mnemonic
device for this password is the singer, Adele. It includes the first initials
of her well-known song “Set Fire to the Rain”, she is 24 years old, from the
UK, and she rocks (!!).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You get the idea. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While it’s always a good idea to remind kids
about the potential downsides to sharing passwords with others (i.e., friends
might post unwanted information or photos onto their social networking sites),
it’s also smart to equip them with practical tools that will keep them safe
online. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It also doesn’t hurt to have a little fun at the
same time. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #323133;">Sometimes truth really is stranger than fiction. Just
consider two recent events in the news. Young girls, unable to recognize an
online hoax called </span><a href="http://parentingtodayskids.com/article/cutforbieber-sure-your-tween-heard-about-it/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+parentingtodayskids+%28Parenting+Today%27s+Kids%29"><span style="color: blue;">#CutForBieber</span></a><span style="color: #323133;">, upload bloody photos of self-inflicted wounds
to Twitter to show their concern for Justin Bieber’s alleged marijuana use.
Meanwhile, 21-year old Notre Dame football player </span><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/tv-column/post/katie-couric-grills-and-joshes-manti-teo/2013/01/24/5f5219b0-6685-11e2-85f5-a8a9228e55e7_blog.html"><span style="color: blue;">Manti Te’o</span></a><span style="color: #323133;"> falls for and
carries on a serious relationship with an online girlfriend who doesn’t actually
exist. Just last week, while interviewing Te’o about this well-publicized
affair, Katie Couric asks him if he’s “technologically challenged.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #323133; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Couric asks an important question. If Te’o, Bieber’s fans,
or any of us for that matter, can’t evaluate online information well enough to
recognize online hoaxes like these when we see them, then <i>yes</i>, we’re technologically challenged. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #323133; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Perhaps we could all use a lesson in CRAP detection.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #323133; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">At Journey School in Aliso Viejo, CA, we turn to the
second chapter of the book, </span><i><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Net-Smart-How-Thrive-Online/dp/0262017458"><span style="color: blue;">NetSmart: How to Thrive Online</span></a> </span></span></i><span style="color: #323133; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">(2012)
by Stanford University Professor, Howard Rheingold for our Cyber Civics </span><span style="color: #323133; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">classes on Information Literacy. I
like Rheingold’s approach to evaluating online information because there’s not
a 13-year old alive whose ears don’t perk up when you start talking about CRAP.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to suggest they ask the following questions when evaluating online information:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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your child is like most, he or she is probably starting out the new year as the proud
owner of a new digital device. A gift from you perhaps? If so, don’t let the
gift-giving end there. Give the best gift of all: <b>10 TIPS</b> to help them use their new phone, tablet, PC, laptop, or
other digital tool <i>wisely</i> and <i>safely</i>:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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their digital devices. A good rule of thumb is to keep bedrooms device free at
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haven’t already set the privacy settings on your own social networking sites,
like Facebook, this is something you and your child can do together. Decide who can see what they post
online and how people can connect with them. Chances are you’ll both learn
something in the process.<b><span style="color: red;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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can be long, dull and boring; but Privacy Policies are important to read, so try
this: </span><a href="http://bit.ly/N5h14w"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">http://bit.ly/N5h14w</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">. It reads
privacy policies and user agreement for you and </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">quickly scans them to flag words, statements,
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the “Do Not Track Tool.”<span style="color: red;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Most Internet browsers have a "Do Not Track" tool to
tell sites you don't want cookies installed on your device. In case you didn’t
already know this, "cookies" are what websites drop on your computer
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child to keep their passwords private and teach them how to make a strong passwords
by following simple rules, like combining upper and lower case letters with
numbers and symbols (and never include personal info!). <b><span style="color: red;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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Info Personal and Don’t Chat With or Send Photos to Strangers. </span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">The good
news is that kids already know this. Research shows that<b> adults actually share personal information more freely online than
kids do. </b>So here’s where we can work a little harder to be better online
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that close to half of online teens admit to lying about their age in order to
access a website. Just like we teach our kids to be ethical, law-abiding
citizens of the offline world, show them how to extend these same behaviors
into the online world. And remember that it’s smart to let kids develop the
maturity needed to deal with the many ethical decisions that loom in cyberspace.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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child. Chances are you’ll learn something from them about how to use your own
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here’s a question: Who is more apt to post an embarrassing photo online, a 7th grader or his/her parent? If you answered “a 7th grader”… then you’d be wrong. According to a recent study conducted by the Pew Research Center called </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Reputation-Management.aspx"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Reputation Management and Social Media</span>,</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> adults share personal information online more freely than kids. And guess what? They’d really like us to stop.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> <br />This past year, in our weekly “<a href="http://www.journeyschool.net/innovation/digital-literacy/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Cyber Civics</span></a>” class at Journey School, I asked a roomful of 7th graders to come up with ten rules for “safe and respectable online behavior.” Here is their list: </span><br />
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>I will not post embarrassing pictures of other people on public sites.</b></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>I will not post mean comments online.</b></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>I will not post any personal information about myself online.</b></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>I will not give out any personal information about my friends.</b></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>I will not make up fake identities.</b></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>I will always ask permission before posting pictures of others.</b></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>I will respect a person’s decision if they do not want a picture or video of themselves posted online.</b></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>I will think twice (or three times) before putting anything online.</b></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>I will not pretend to be another person online behind their back.</b></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>I will not post personal stories about my friends online without their permission.</b></span></li>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I think these are terrific rules for all of us, young person and adult alike. After all, as tempting as it is to over share personal information on social networks, like Facebook, following these guidelines not only demonstrates respect for the “digital footprints” of our families and friends, it’s also just plain smart. After all, posting that photo of your family frolicking on the beach in Maui also broadcasts to the world that nobody is at home. That’s not so wise. Don’t believe me? Just ask your 7th grader. <br /> <br />(Btw, in case you were wondering, yes the class gave me permission to post this list and to give out the name of their school!)</span><br />
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lining your bookshelf (alas, the final print edition was published in 2010),
using Wikipedia as a source of information seems counterintuitive. After all,
<i>is it really possible</i> f<i>or a group of random online strangers to know more about
a given topic than experts employed by the world’s most venerable institution
of knowledge? </i>The answer is yes, sort of.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">The secret of <a href="http://www.wikipedia.org/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Wikipedia</span></a> is this: groups are remarkably smart.
In fact, they are usually smarter than the smartest person in them. Nowhere is
this explained better than in the book <i>“The Wisdom of Crowds”</i> by James
Surowiecki. He opens the book with a story about British scientist Francis
Galton who, in 1906, attended the West of England Fat Stock and Poultry
Exhibition where he watched 800 people attempt to guess the weight of a fat ox.
Out of curiosity, Galton set out to figure out the statistical mean of the
group’s guesses and discovered that the crowd guessed that the ox weighed 1,197
pounds. It’s actual weight? 1,198 pounds. In other words, the crowd was pretty
much spot on. Versions of this experiment have been conducted time and again,
with results confirming that the <i>crowd will almost always come up with a better
answer than the smartest person in that crowd. </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">For kids who have never heard of Encyclopedia Britannica and
who readily turn to Wikipedia as a quick and easy reference for their
schoolwork, learning how Wikipedia works, and understanding its strengths and weaknesses,
is an important lesson in 21<sup>st</sup> century literacy. So we spent a
couple weeks focusing on this topic during our 7<sup>th</sup> grade <span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: blue;"><a href="http://www.journeyschool.net/innovation/digital-literacy/">CyberCivics classes at Journey School</a> </span>in Southern California.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">We used a lesson from <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><a href="http://newmedialiteracies.org/our-space-being-a-responsible.php">“Our Space: Being a Responsible Citizen of the Digital World</a>"</span> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">from
<i>Project New Media Literacies</i> called <a href="http://newmedialiteracies.org/VI_E_Wikipedia_Our_Space.pdf"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">“Wikipedia: The Group Behind the Screen.”</span> </a>Although
designed for students in high school, this lesson was easily adapted for 7th
graders as follows: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">Every student received a piece of paper with a topic on it,
ranging from spaghetti to running shoes. They were asked to list everything
they personally knew about that topic. After completing this task, they broke
into small groups with other students who had received the same topic. In these
small groups students pooled their collective knowledge and corrected each other’s
mistakes, finally coming up with a list that turned out to be both more
accurate and comprehensive that what they had come up with individually.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">Obviously
this is a lesson on “collective intelligence” and an excellent student
introduction to Wikipedia. A terrific article by scholar Henry Jenkins called,
“What Wikipedia Can Teach Us About the New Media Literacies”, accompanies this
free lesson. In his article Jenkins reminds us, <i>“</i></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;"><i>in a world where many young people are turning to
(Wikipedia) as a key source for information, educators need to understand what
is going on well enough to offer them meaningful advice and guidance… it is not
enough to construct policies restricting the use of Wikipedia as a source if we
don’t help foster the skills young people need in order to critically engage
with a site which has become so central to their online lives. ”</i> (p. 14). Hear,
hear.<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">It’s
interesting really, that so many educators still perceive Wikipedia negatively.
Roy Rosenzweig, director of the Center for History and New Media at George
Mason University, conducted an analysis </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15pt;">of Wikipedia for <i>The Journal
of American History</i>, and though he
found the quality of its information inconsistent, he also found that overall
Wikipedia is <b>as</b><b> accurate or more accurate</b> than traditional
encyclopedias.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;"> In fact, a number of studies, including the landmark early study by
the journal <a href="http://news.cnet.com/2100-1038_3-5997332.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Nature</span></a>, have also
found Wikipedia to be as, if not more, reliable and statistically accurate than a traditional encyclopedia. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">Of course,
if you were a 7th grader, you’d already know this, as did the ones </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">I posed the following question to:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;"><b>“Which do you think is more reliable: Wikipedia or
the old-fashioned encyclopedia?<o:p></o:p></b></span></i></div>
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because everything is up-to-date and constantly checked. The old-fashioned
encyclopedia is outdated.”<o:p></o:p></b></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;"><b>“I think
Wikipedia is more reliable because it’s by people like you and me.”<o:p></o:p></b></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;"><b>"Wikipedia,
because it gets corrected all the time.”<o:p></o:p></b></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;"><b>"Wikipedia,
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">There you
have it. These students, who many consider to be the first of a new generation that has truly
grown up in a hyper mediated culture, instinctively know what scholar Pierre
Levy wrote before they were even born: “Collective intelligence exploits the
potential of network culture to allow many different minds operating in many
different contexts to work together to solve problems that are more challenging
than any of them could master as individuals.” In such a world,
he tells us, "nobody knows everything, everyone knows something, and what any
member knows is available to the group as a whole at a moment’s notice" (as cited by Jenkins, p. 22).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">That’s not
to say that students should be taught to take Wikipedia, or any media source
for that matter, at face value. Now, more than ever, young people need to be
taught to call on their critical thinking skills to engage in what Harold
Rheingold calls “crap detection” - </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">a way
to evaluate a source based on the following criteria: <i>Currency, Reliability,
Authority and Purpose/Point of View. </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">This is one of the many reasons why it’s so important to find time for
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">cyber civics, media literacy, digital
citizenship, information literacy</i>, or whatever you care to call it, in school. To be a functioning citizen of our new digital world, it’s no longer enough to give</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;"> the right answer on a bubble test. It requires being
able to find and/or produce credible information that everyone can share. Because
<b><i>we are why Wikipedia works</i></b><i>.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Clinton, K., et al. "Wikipedia: The Group Behind the Screen." Retrieved from </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px;"><a href="http://newmedialiteracies.org/VI_E_Wikipedia_Our_Space.pdf">http://newmedialiteracies.org/VI_E_Wikipedia_Our_Space.pdf</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Jenkins, H. (2007). "What Wikipedia Can Teach Us About the New Media Literacies." Retrieved from</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Lesson and Article: Wikipedia: The Group Behind the Screen <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"><a href="http://newmedialiteracies.org/VI_E_Wikipedia_Our_Space.pdf">http://newmedialiteracies.org/VI_E_Wikipedia_Our_Space.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Levy,
Pierre (1997). <i>Collective Intelligence: Mankind’s Emerging World in
Cyberspace </i>(New York: Plenum). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Surowiecki
, James (2004). <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Wisdom of the Crowd</i>.
New York: Random House. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWZHbUtcSW2nUjVnbK5YFiSFMX1RyDkVHmdbhyYZaEswaFitr2d8cDl9-VBqKYeUA0VkS4I4Q6uL09W5DjLTq81DvxR-IcxigaidXudvnWuFByMcy-jFKXrvJir2_XIRPeB1lO-jUXxdZ2/s1600/fun_meter.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWZHbUtcSW2nUjVnbK5YFiSFMX1RyDkVHmdbhyYZaEswaFitr2d8cDl9-VBqKYeUA0VkS4I4Q6uL09W5DjLTq81DvxR-IcxigaidXudvnWuFByMcy-jFKXrvJir2_XIRPeB1lO-jUXxdZ2/s200/fun_meter.jpg" width="196" /></a><span style="color: black;">Classroom lessons about "copyright" and "fair use" usually rank up there on the fun meter right next to
“algebraic equations” and “dangling participles.” Even saying the words “fair
use,” especially in front of class full of 7<sup>th</sup> graders, is sure to
make their eyes glaze over. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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However, what <i style="color: black;">I</i> learned teaching this lesson (using
<a href="http://www.commonsensemedia.org/educators"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Common Sense Media’s Digital Literacy and Citizenship curriculum</span></a>) can be best summed
up as a mathematical equation: <span style="color: black;"> </span></div>
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Here’s the <i style="color: black;">relevan</i>t part. For most of us, it’s difficult
to get a real sense of appreciation for copyright law is until we've created a piece
of work we feel is worthy of protection. In other words, it helps to have a
little skin in the game. To create this relevancy the class was told that the
Happy Birthday song they’ve been singing for years is actually protected by
copyright law (yes, it’s true, so if you plan to perform the song in public or
include it in a movie, get out your checkbook). So, following the curricular
advice of the Common Sense Media unit <i><a href="http://www.commonsensemedia.org/educators/curriculum/6-8"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Respecting Creative Work</span></a></i>, the
class broke into small groups and created original birthday songs for their
teacher. Here are snippets they shot of their creations.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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This lesson became <i>relatable</i> when the students discussed
how they would feel if someone sang their song and, a) did not give them credit
for it or, b) claimed them as their own. They didn’t like either of these two
possible scenarios and were eager for copyright protection of their creative
work.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguubMtsVyX36p4gdHcdd911nR6juvPL5Sj0xjzMWMBJHI_FUURdnkX-wuPBdC4RBKuh_nb92mC03HVugZXohnI89aQi1CW7_lFTbLULgR_3SgUFGNLO_qKEmvIietOauO6UR90-TRNoMQO/s1600/L1040264.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguubMtsVyX36p4gdHcdd911nR6juvPL5Sj0xjzMWMBJHI_FUURdnkX-wuPBdC4RBKuh_nb92mC03HVugZXohnI89aQi1CW7_lFTbLULgR_3SgUFGNLO_qKEmvIietOauO6UR90-TRNoMQO/s200/L1040264.JPG" width="135" /></a><span style="color: black;">However, when the tables
were turned and they were asked to create “mashup" posters using copyrighted
materials in a manner that would be considered “fair use” (i.e., using a
limited amount, adding new meaning/making it original, reworking/using in a
different way), they were eager for the opportunity to dig in and reassemble,
reuse, repurpose and rework the work of others. However before attacking the
stack of magazines with their scissors, I did notice a moment of pause as many
wondered how to credit the authors of the works within the pages. In fact, many
of them scanned the pages searching for names to credit (even
though this is not always necessary in under the parameters of <i>fair use</i>, it is still good manners to
give credit when you can). <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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In a world where cut,
copy and paste have become almost automatic reflexes, all of this is confusing,
murky, grey area stuff. Even as a filmmaker, I found I had to refresh myself on
the current state of <i style="color: black;">copyright, public
domain</i> and <i style="color: black;">fair use</i> as they apply
to all the information (seemingly) freely available on the Internet before I could begin to
speak about these things with the students. In fact I’m still feeling badly about the image at the top of
this blog that I found used on multiple other blogs, none of which included an
attribution (if anyone knows the creator, contact me!). Luckily I found a world
of help in a just published chapter (<i><a href="http://mediaeducationlab.com/news/copywrite-intellectual-property-writing-classroom"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Toward a Pedagogy of Fair Use for Multimedia Composition</span></a></i>) in a new book by Renee
Hobbs and Katie Donnelly titled <i><a href="http://mediaeducationlab.com/news/copywrite-intellectual-property-writing-classroom"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Copy(write):</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Intellectual Property in the Writing Classroom</span></a>.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: black;">As Hobbs and Donnelly
tell us, “the rise of digital media has contributed to greater levels of
awareness and sensitivity because ‘the practice of making one’s own </span>music,
movie or essay makes one a more self-conscious user of the cultural artifacts
of others,’ as media literacy education is part of a broad practice of learning
by doing that ‘makes the entire society more effective readers and writers of
their own culture’" (Benkler, p. 299, as cited in <a href="http://mediaeducationlab.com/news/copywrite-intellectual-property-writing-classroom"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Hobbs & Donnelly, 2011, pp. 279-280</span></a>).<o:p></o:p></div>
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I agree with that
statement wholeheartedly. In fact, it got me wondering about members of
Congress who, ironically, on the same day as we were experiencing this lesson,
were debating the <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/sopa-stop-online-piracy-act-lawmaker-opposition-grows-as-debate-heats-up/2011/11/18/gIQADBdQZN_story.html?tid=pm_business_pop"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)</span></a>, a
new bill intended to ban allegedly copyright-infringing websites from the
Internet. Critics of the legislation say it would strike at
the very core of the sharing, openness, and participation that the Internet
represents. In fact, many feel this bill could usher in an era of Internet
censorship that will make the critical thinking skills like those practiced in this class a pointless waste of time and these students might as well have been
filling in bubbles on some mandated state test. I honestly wish at least some
members of Congress had gotten to make their own birthday songs and “mashup”
posters when they were in school. At least then I’d feel a whole lot better
about their abilities to cast an informed vote on this bill. But I digress…</div>
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<span style="color: black;">If these students hadn’t
had the experience of creating, documenting and feeling proud of their musical numbers, I
don’t think they would have tried so hard, as they did, to find the names of
those who created the works used in their “mashup” posters. At the very
least I believe they learned a valuable lesson that day… that that the old
adage, “<i>what goes around, comes around</i>” carries more meaning now, than ever
before. <i style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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