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Digital Citizenship & Safety. KRCL | RadioActive: April 5, 2017. Fake News, Digital Literacy, Rock Canyon Poets Hosted by Lara Jones and Nick Burns, tonight's show featured a preview of the April 11th community panel on Facts, fake news and a post-truth America. Guests on the show: BYU journalism professor Joel Campbell, City Weekly Editor Enrique LimónCarrie Rogers-Whitehead of Digital Respons-Ability Plus, #OpenMicActivists: Prof.
Amos Guiora on the most recent chemical attack on civilians in Syria.Poet Bonnie Shiffler-Olsen, co-founder of Rock Canyon Poets. Thanks to Trish Hopkinson of Provo Poetry for curating poets for RadioActive this week. Share. Nude selfies a big problem in Utah schools, officials warn. SALT LAKE CITY — To some it's a sign of affection. To some it's flirting. And to others, it's just what their generation does. But what many high school students are shocked to discover is that sending a nude selfie to another person can also be a felony crime.
"You could be charged with creating and distributing child pornography, even though it’s just a picture of yourself. The issue of sexting teenagers is not new. Unified police detective Jerry Byam talks to a student at Taylorsville High School on Monday, March 13, 2017. School officials say, to a lesser degree, they have also dealt with sexting issues in junior high and middle schools.
But while many teens believe sending or receiving nude photos is harmless, most don't see the potential problems such actions can create until it gets to the point that police become involved. "This is a huge problem and seems to be a normal behavior in school today. Sexting cases In one case, Horsley described a boy and a girl who had broken up.
Digital Citizenship: Resource Roundup. Digital Literacy/Digital Citizenship. Digital citizenship. The Kids Who Lie About Their Age to Join Facebook - The Atlantic. Between 2011 and 2014, a group called EU Kids Online conducted comprehensive studies, looking at children in 22 European countries and across many cultures. A strong majority of children used the Internet to visit social-networking sites like Facebook and to watch video clips on sites like YouTube. About half used the Internet for instant messaging and to do schoolwork. About one-third used it for Internet gaming, slightly less to download movies or music, and less again to read the news. A similarly comprehensive study was done in the United States in 2014 by four researchers from the fields of education and psychology.
A national sample of 442 children between the ages of 8 and 12, or what is called “middle childhood,” were asked how they spent their time online. Younger children (8 to 10 years) spent an average of 46 minutes per day on a computer, compared with older ones (11 to 12 years), who spent one hour and 46 minutes per day on a computer. But wait a second. How large? Nearpod - Create, Engage, Assess through Mobile Devices. Making Sense of the News: News Literacy Lessons for Digital Citizens - The University of Hong Kong, The State University of New York.
Can You Tell Fake News From Real? Study Finds Students Have 'Dismaying' Inability. Stanford researchers assessed students from middle school to college and found they struggled to distinguish ads from articles, neutral sources from biased ones and fake accounts from real ones. Gary Waters/Ikon Images/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Gary Waters/Ikon Images/Getty Images Stanford researchers assessed students from middle school to college and found they struggled to distinguish ads from articles, neutral sources from biased ones and fake accounts from real ones.
If the children are the future, the future might be very ill-informed. That's one implication of a new study from Stanford researchers that evaluated students' ability to assess information sources and described the results as "dismaying," "bleak" and "[a] threat to democracy. " As content creators and social media platforms grapple with the fake news crisis, the study highlights the other side of the equation: What it looks like when readers are duped. "The photograph had no attribution. Op-ed: We owe it to children to take digital citizenship seriously. One researcher from the study said, "Many assume that because young people are fluent in social media they are equally savvy about what they find there. ... Our work shows the opposite. " The ability to evaluate information is an essential part of digital citizenship — the appropriate and responsible use of technology. The 21st century skills in digital citizenship are more important now than ever.
The recent election results attest to this. In the last three months of the 2016 presidential election, fake news sources had more engagement than real sources. The implications in evaluating information online goes beyond politics, affecting college and career, health, relationships and more. Utah is one of a few states that has a law around digital citizenship. Despite legislation like HB213 and work by other organizations, many students still lack basic media literacy skills.
Carrie Rogers-Whitehead is an information professional, educator and founder of Digital Respons-Ability. UCET 2017 - Michelle Shimmin - Education Technology. Home | Northstar Digital Literacy Assessment. Gigabit Libraries Network - Home. Digital Citizenship. Digital Citizenship.