All Blog Posts Tagged 'social' (3)

The other day my principal called my classroom and asked me to send a few of my students (8th graders) down to her office. She said someone had created a fake Facebook page for one of our campus supervisors, and three of my students appeared to be involved. They had copied a picture of the victim from his own Facebook page, and then gave him a name that was a slight variation of his own. Then they filled the page with all kinds of hateful profanity.

These kids are so clueless about…

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Since social networking appears to be here to stay, don't we owe it to our students to teach them how to use these sites safely and responsibly? Since bringing my students on to a class blog last year, I discovered how little they really know… Continue

I found a blog post by Susan Carter Morgan which included MIT's Henry Jenkins's video about New Media Literacies. See the blog here.





Love this:

New Media Literacies: "Becoming part of the participatory culture….Skills that connect people together with something larger than the individual levels…."



The logo for Project New Media Skills is "create,… Continue