Your digital consultant » internet http://yourdigitalconsultant.edublogs.org it's easy but I'm not cheap Thu, 02 Jul 2009 06:08:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Interesting perspective http://yourdigitalconsultant.edublogs.org/2008/07/20/interesting-perspective/ http://yourdigitalconsultant.edublogs.org/2008/07/20/interesting-perspective/#comments Sun, 20 Jul 2008 12:52:20 +0000 Simon Robinson http://yourdigitalconsultant.edublogs.org/2008/07/20/interesting-perspective/ Australian government funding porn
All the filters do, in effect, is point out where the naughty content is, and in the context of the Net, that’s where the naked people are.

I read this with great amusement the other day. It’s always valuable to look at the world in a slightly different way…

]]> http://yourdigitalconsultant.edublogs.org/2008/07/20/interesting-perspective/feed/ 0 The social network saga http://yourdigitalconsultant.edublogs.org/2008/05/25/the-social-network-saga/ http://yourdigitalconsultant.edublogs.org/2008/05/25/the-social-network-saga/#comments Sun, 25 May 2008 03:36:49 +0000 Simon Robinson http://yourdigitalconsultant.edublogs.org/2008/05/25/the-social-network-saga/ At our inaugural Technology Mastery day the other week we had an intensive discussion about social networks, internet safety and related issues particularly in reference to our obligations or otherwise as educators. Bill Ferriter in his blog The Tempered Radical talks about an email question he received from a parent and his response.

The Tempered Radical: Middle Schoolers and Myspace

I’m still trying to think through my own approach to introducing kids to Internet safety—and this just happens to be where my thinking stands today:

He references some great resources providing a good balance of information with advice. I like the “conversations in the foodcourt at the mall” analogy lifted from Clay Shirky’s book and Fear Factor: Dangers overblown (by Anastasia Goodstein) puts the online predator hysteria into perspective and is an article that should be read by everyone. If people get keen they can follow the link in Anastasia’s article to the Advisory Committee to the Congressional Internet Congress where they invited a group of experts to discuss The Facts About Youth Online Victimization. One of the experts is danah boyd who was in Australia last year chatting to all sorts of people and podcasts of some of her events are hosted on the Education.au Seminars blog. They are quite goodTechnorati Tags: , , ,

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