Embrace MySpace: Safe Uses of Social Networking Tools with Students

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Contents 1 Social Networking in Plain English 2 Premise 1: Our Students are Already Using It 3 Premise 2: If We Block It They'll Get Around It 3.1 Head Tracking for Desktop VR Displays using the WiiRemote 4 Premise 3: If We Don't Teach Our Students How to Use It (Appropriately), Who Will? 5 Conclusions: What Are We Preparing Our Students For? 5.1 Flickrvision & WikipediaVision 6 Postscript 6.1 Mr. Winkle Wakes

Social Networking in Plain English

Premise 1: Our Students are Already Using It

• National School Board Association report
  • 96% of teens who go online are using social networking (read the report, pdf)
    • What students are doing online
    • How are students using social networking?
    • A day in the (digital) life of a South Korean boy
      • Highlight 1
      • Highlight 2
        • Yahoo! Answers
        • Or you can pay someone else to do it for you.
          • Okay, but what's it all mean?
    • What about predators? (They're everywhere!)
      • Ever met in Real Life?
      • There have been more articles published on predators than actual reported incidences online. -danah boyd, citied in Wikinomics
      • Pew research shows, the dangers of using social networking are about the same as simply going online (pdf)
      • Study rejects Internet sex predator stereotype
      • Harvard Study: Enhancing Child Safety and Online Technologies
      • doing the math on MySpace and registered sex offenders
        • Internet Safey Education for Teens: Getting it Right (handout) (pdf)
• SNL MySpace skit

Premise 2: If We Block It They'll Get Around It

• Teen unlocks iPhone
  • How did he do it?
• 13-year-old unlocks iPod Touch

Head Tracking for Desktop VR Displays using the WiiRemote

Premise 3: If We Don't Teach Our Students How to Use It (Appropriately), Who Will?

• MySpace Photo Costs Teacher Education Degree
  • See the offending photo
• MySpace judgment: Guilty
  • Las Vegas MySpace Judge Story Gets International Attention
• Obama Team Checks Facebook Pages
• Facebook post gets NFL Eagles' worker fired
  • Pictures of me that other people tag on Facebook

Conclusions: What Are We Preparing Our Students For?

• This year's Freshman will retire in 2056
  • I can't see in to the future
• What skills do you want your own kids to have?
• Which will be worse?

Flickrvision & WikipediaVision

flickr vision | WikipediaVision

Postscript

Mr. Winkle Wakes

• In Between Lauding and Deriding: A Pedagogical Review of MySpace
• MySpace as Research Paper
• Safe Digital Social Networking an hour long talk with Wes Fryer

Contact Information

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