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Safe Digital Social Networking (DSN) -or- Proactive Approaches to Address Cyberbullying and Digital Social Networking
Generally adults help young people learn to drive safely before giving them car keys and turning them loose on the streets of the world. Young people also need guidance and adult assistance to learn how to safely navigate the virtual environments of the 21st Century. Schools must be proactive, rather than merely defensive, in helping students acquire the skills of digital citizenship needed today and in the future. Simply banning read/write web tools on school networks is an inadequate response: Educators must strive to learn alongside students and parents how these technologies can be safely and powerfully used to communicate and collaborate.
Video clips related to this topic are linked on my "Videos for Professional Development page" under the heading "Cyberbullying Prevention, Internet Safety, Safe DSN."
Related Articles and Links
- Study Debunks Web Predator Myths (6 March 2008)
- "Online 'Predators' and Their Victims: Myths, Realities and Implications for Prevention" (Feb-Mar 2008 - PDF)
- PBS Frontline Special "Growing Up Online" (January 2008 - entire documentary is viewable online)
- 96 percent of teens use social-networking tools: Survey reveals schools have a huge opportunity to harness technology for instruction (15 Aug 2007)
- No longer the MySpace of your youth (Oct 2006)
- We Are the Web (Wired Article August 2005)
- Dan Pink (author of "A Whole New Mind")
- A Proposal for Banning Pencils (PDF) by Doug Johnson
- Online Social Lives of Teens - MP3 podcast from NPR with Amanda Lenhart (PEW Internet senior researcher and Fred Stutzman (Univ of North Carolina Grad student, founder of ClaimID.com)
- Social networking stats
- 57% of teenagers create content for the Internet ( Amanda Lenhart, Mary Madden - 'Teen Content Creators and Consumers,' Nov 2005 report from the PEW Internet & American Life Project).
Web Environments and Tools
- Think.com - School-based DSN environment, "walled-garden"
- Imbee.com - For parents and kids, teachers and students, "walled-garden"
- Moodle.org - Open source course management software, can be installed for closed / "walled-garden" use, public use, or variants in-between
- Others: Webkinz, Club Penguin, Whyville, Panwapa, Beanie Babies, BuildABear, WoogiWorld, and Cybersmartz. Refer to Bob Sprankle, Maria Knee and Kevin Jarrett's discussion of "tween" social networking environments like these on Bit by Bit.
Recommendations
Resources
Previous oresentations on this topic include:
Oklahoma EncyloMedia Conference - 30 Aug 2007
Operation Aware, Tulsa, OK - 17 Aug 2007
ESC01 South Padre May 2007
KSDE April 2007 Presentations
COSN March 2007 Preso
Watch Vanessa Van Petten describe the reasons she thinks teens engage in social networking in the YouTube video: “For Parents: Why do Teens Use Social Networking Sites?”
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