What is a digital tattoo? | Burnaby Public Library In short, it is your digital identity. Just like a tattoo, your digital reputation is an expression of yourself. It is formed and added to by you and others over time. Your digital tattoo includes things like websites or blogs you’ve created, tweets, blog comments, your account or screen names and everything else you’ve left on the Internet from your online activities. Just like a real tattoo, a digital tattoo is easy to create but extremely difficult to remove. There is nothing wrong with having a digital tattoo – digital tattoos are not bad or dangerous, and positive posts can actually work to enhance your reputation. Want to learn more about yours? Search yourself. Why does it matter? Being on the Internet is like being in public – anyone and everyone are watching you, and you don’t know who they are. People also judge you by how you behave online, which can affect you later in life with things like employment (finding a job), college acceptance and your real life relationships.
To tackle the spread of misinformation online we must first understand it | Farida Vis Last summer the World Economic Forum (WEF) invited its 1,500 council members to identify the main issues the world faces, and what should be done about them. The WEF consists of 80 councils covering a wide range of issues including social media. Members come from academia, industry, government, international organisations and wider civil society. The top three issues highlighted for 2014 concerned rising societal tensions in the Middle East and north Africa; widening income disparities; and persistent structural unemployment. Perhaps surprisingly, in tenth place was a concern over the rapid spread of misinformation online, and specifically social media's role in this. False information and the news Within a number of professions – journalism being an obvious one – the spread and potential for reporting misinformation is a genuine concern. Are internet users concerned? The authors note: This stability suggests that users have learnt to what extent they can trust information online.
Digital Literacy and Citizenship Curriculum – Know your web – Good to Know – Google At Google we believe in the power of education and the promise of technology to improve the lives of students and educators -- leading the way for a new generation of learning in the classroom and beyond. But no matter what subject you teach, it is important for your students to know how to think critically and evaluate online sources, understand how to protect themselves from online threats from bullies to scammers, and to think before they share and be good digital citizens. Google has partnered with child safety experts at iKeepSafe, and also worked with educators themselves to develop lessons that will work in the classroom, are appropriate for kids, and incorporate some of the best advice and tips that Google's security team has to offer. Class 1: Become an Online Sleuth In this class, students will identify guidelines for evaluating the credibility of content online. We are always looking to improve these classes.
BBC Radio 4 - Digital Human, Series 5, Whispers Classrooms Without Walls: Using Digital Media to Connect Inside and Outside of the Classroom EdSurge Newsletters Receive weekly emails on edtech products, companies, and events that matter. Start by taking a moment to reflect. Think about last year. How well did you integrate technology in your classroom? But at the end of the day, there are always questions to ask yourself: What tool did I use to connect with my parents and students? To answer these questions, I often turn to the people who can help me evaluate how effectively I’ve been integrating edtech tools into the classroom: students, parents and fellow educators. Leveraging relationships with educators One of the most simple ways to begin to break down your classroom walls is to build a strong PLN, or Personal Learning Network. Twitter is one of the easiest and most common ways to develop a strong PLN. And don’t forget to contribute yourself--other educators want to learn your awesome practices, too! Leveraging relationships with students Our students need an authentic audiences, and the ability to connect with others too.
Why big data has made your privacy a thing of the past | Tech Watching the legal system deal with the internet is like watching somebody trying to drive a car by looking only in the rear-view mirror. The results are amusing and predictable but not really interesting. On the other hand, watching the efforts of regulators – whether national ones such as Ofcom, or multinational, such as the European Commission – is more instructive. At the moment, the commission is wrestling with the problem of how to protect the data of European citizens in a world dominated by Google, Facebook and co. The windscreen of the metaphorical car that the commission is trying to drive has been cracked so extensively that it's difficult to see anything clearly through it. So in her desperation, the driver (Viviane Reding, the commission's vice-president) oscillates between consulting the rear-view mirror and asking passers-by (who may or may not be impartial) for tips about what lies ahead. But while all this is going on, the ground is shifting beneath the disputants.
fishtreeblog.tumblr Social media told to simplify terms and conditions 27 November 2014Last updated at 19:04 ET By Rory Cellan-Jones Technology correspondent Most people use social media without every properly studying the services' rules Social networking firms including Facebook and Twitter are being told to make it clearer to members how they collect and use their data. A report by the Commons Science and Technology Select Committee says the firms' terms and conditions are far too long and complex. The MPs say users may not be aware of how their details can be used by websites and apps. Any reasonable person would struggle with long privacy policies, they add. The committee says reading such documents has been likened to "engaging with Shakespeare". And it says that the rules have been designed for use in US courtrooms and to protect organisations in the event of legal action rather than to convey information. T&Cs updates Facebook recently unveiled updated terms and conditions policies that it claims are simpler and easier to read. Relationship of trust
Color Blind or Color Conscious? Feature How schools acknowledge racial and ethnic identities will affect all students’ educational experiences by BEVERLY DANIEL TATUM I've had many teachers say to me, "I’m not prejudiced. I don't notice any differences in these kids. Many teachers aspire to be "color-blind" when interacting with their students. As the father quoted above observed, "If you’re going to teach them all the same, does that mean that you don’t recognize that they are black … that they have an experience that is rich and that you can use to enrich this classroom?" A color-blind approach often means that the educator has not considered the meaning of racial/ethnic identity to the child. However, when dealing especially with adolescents, identity questions are very important to keep in mind. Why are young people of color thinking about themselves in terms of race or ethnicity? Shaping of Self-Perception Some of the key environmental messages are received at school. Social Shaping Affirmation in Class
Digital literacy can boost employability and improve student experience | Higher Education Network | The Guardian The nature of knowledge is changing and, in this digital age, our definition of basic literacy urgently needs expanding. With an estimated 90% of UK jobs requiring some level of IT competency, the notion of digital literacy – those capabilities that equip an individual for living, learning and working in a digital society – is one that needs to be taken seriously by colleges and universities. We live in an online world with the digital divide closing up both through government initiatives (Martha Lane Fox, the government's digital champion, recently took up the challenge of getting 10 million people in the UK online, saying that otherwise "they will be even more isolated and disadvantaged as government and industry expand ever faster into digital-only services") and technological advances – more than half the UK population now own a smartphone with internet capability. But it's not just about employability – increasingly digital literacy is vital for learning itself.
At Waldorf School in Silicon Valley, Technology Can Wait Of course, that figure may not be surprising, given that these are students from families that value education highly enough to seek out a selective private school, and usually have the means to pay for it. And it is difficult to separate the effects of the low-tech instructional methods from other factors. For example, parents of students at the Los Altos school say it attracts great teachers who go through extensive training in the Waldorf approach, creating a strong sense of mission that can be lacking in other schools. Absent clear evidence, the debate comes down to subjectivity, parental choice and a difference of opinion over a single world: engagement. Ann Flynn, director of education technology for the National School Boards Association, which represents school boards nationwide, said computers were essential. “Teaching is a human experience,” he said. And Waldorf parents argue that real engagement comes from great teachers with interesting lesson plans. “It’s supereasy.
Dimensions of digital media literacy and the relationship to social exclusion | Sora Park as existing in many different types and varying on the basis of social contexts. Not only is it the skills to interpret social artifacts but it also involves the social context. A wider range of competencies is involved in using digital media compared with traditional mass media. While literacy skills of mass media focus on how people can critically understand mediated messages, digital media literacy skills expand beyond interpretation of content into the realm of controlling, filtering and appropriating content through various digital media channels (Livingstone, Couvering and Thumim, 2005). However, digital media literacy should not be regarded as replacing traditional media literacy; rather, it expands the literacy skills involved in reading, writing and understanding to encompass the new technologies.