Home - 21st Century Skills Toolkit - LibGuides at Monterey Public Library. The students, for the most part, paid attention; however, before the presentations I would ask them if they liked free food? I let them know that at the end of the presentation, we were going to play a game to see how well they paid attention to me. This got the kids going. At the end of the presentation, we played Jeopardy which included categories that coved each topic I talked about. The class broke into four teams and were allowed to answer collectively. I found is that there was always at least one kid on each team who paid enough attention to know how to FIND the answers the team didn't know by looking at the resources I provided.
Overall, visitng the school and doing the presentations is a positive experience that helps build a relationship bewteen the Teen Librarian, the students, and the teachers. Teach Kids To Be Their Own Internet Filters. ” credit=”flickingerbrad/Flickr It’s becoming less and less effective to block students from websites. When Los Angeles Unified rolled out its one-to-one iPad program, administrators expected to be able to control how students used them both in school and at home. But, not surprisingly, kids are resourceful and students quickly found ways around the security, prompting the district to require students to turn over the devices. Students live in an information-saturated world. Rather than shielding them from the digital world, many agree the most effective way to keep them safe and using the internet responsibly as a learning tool is to teach them how to be their own filters.
That’s not only a life skill, but one that’s important when researching. “If we are not teaching the kids to use the web as a vehicle for enhancing learning and teaching them to be the filter, that’s a dereliction of duty.” A key to making sure good practices stick is to teach research skills when kids need them. HBO Still Doesn't Get It: Game of Thrones Again the Most Torrented Show | Underwire. Photo: Helen Sloan/HBO Three seasons in and Game of Thrones still continues to set records — both legitimate and otherwise. After hitting ratings milestones earlier this year, it now has yet another accomplishment to boast about: the most pirated show of 2013. This latest honor comes via TorrentFreak, which found that the Season 3 finale of the show had 5.9 million downloads via BitTorrent, beating other shows like Breaking Bad and The Walking Dead by large margins.
However, the fact that millions of people are pirating Game of Thrones really isn’t the story here — or, if it is, it’s not a new one. What bears examining is the extent to which that piracy is a direct product of HBO’s policies — and the network’s staunch refusal to budge in the face of mounting evidence that their policy of avoiding third-party distribution to reinforce the value of their product is accomplishing just the opposite. It’s not that HBO doesn’t acknowledge the volume of torrenting taking place. Copyright.columbia.edu/copyright/files/2009/10/fairusechecklist.pdf. Www.cyberbee.com/cb_copyright.swf. Media Fear Tactics - Articles - Gavin de Becker. It would be interesting if the standards of Truth in Advertising were applied to television news as they sometimes are to television commercials.
In that unlikely situation, TV news writers would be required to use phrases and words that convey accurate information – as opposed to the phrases and words they use today. I want to help you break the code of alarming newspeak so that you can more easily find the valuable information that may (or may not) be part of a story. Given the disturbing reasons we’ve all been watching so much TV news, it would be understandable to overlook the sheer ridiculousness that is inherent in some of the sensationalism.
Occasionally, the way TV news is delivered can be downright funny, and indeed, the ability to laugh at something indicates that we are beginning to gain perspective on it. Though not offered as a comprehensive glossary, here are some examples of words and phrases I think you’ll quickly recognize: Are these two things linked? They sure do. How Secure Is My Password? 10 Tests of Good Digital Citizenship.