Cool Cat Teacher’s Cool Sites of the Day! 04/13/2008

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Online Predators and Their Victims – Annotated
Cool summary of an article by Liz B. Davis — Liz took the article and extracted the most valuable bits to her using google Docs. This methodology is fascinating, but even moreso the fact we may all begin doing this together with Diigo.
tags: education, hz08, hzmeta, connectingpeople, digiteen, digitalcitizenship
Pioneering research shows ‘Google Generation’ is a myth – Annotated
Wow — this longitudinal study shows that all generations show “google generation” traits with over 65 year olds spending 4 more hours a week online than some of the younger ages.
It argues that libraries must adapt to the digital mindset AND that young people are lacking in information skills!
This is an important study for all educators, business leaders, AND students on the Horizon project. Another reason to remind ourselves that we base practice on RESEARCH not STEREOTYPES!
tags: education, brightideas, hz08, hzmeta, connectingpeople, virtualcollab, arts_entertainment, humanmachine, edu_news, bestpractices, curriculum, digitalcitizenship
» Outside Looking In | Kate Says – Annotated
Added some annotations to this — I highly suggest that bloggers don’t close comments! The conversation belongs to all of us and should take place anywhere it takes place. See Kate’s blog for more.
tags: edu_trends, edublog, education
Dangerously Irrelevant: Dear Jon letter (a.k.a. The world doesn’t care about you)
This is a great post by Scott mcLeod to all bloggers, not just beginners. I think he offers some great points.
tags: edublogging, edublog, education
YouTube – 8 Teens Charged With Beating 16 y/o Girl (Phil Rants)
**WARNING – EXPLICIT LANGUAGE IN THE LINKED VIDEO**
This is an example of a very successful youtube show that many teens are watching and viewing. WARNING – there is explicit language here, however, I find this “question of the day” on Wendesday, the 606,954 views and the 20 video responses and 777,000 teen responses interesting.
Again, this is NOT a video to show your classes, however it IS a video to understand how teens are talking about and trying to make sense of the world. Step back and look at what is happening… and notice, who is not included in the equation!
Also, I do not advocate what this guy suggests doing! I do advocate holding people accountable for what they’ve done and that needs to happen in this case. The blame should go squarely on the kids that did it, for when it doesn’t, people know they can get away with anything and not be held responsible. It would set a dangerous precedent.
tags: education, digitalcitizenship, ethics, questionoftheweek

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Vicki Davis

Vicki Davis has been an educator and IT director in Georgia since 2002. Today, she also works as an instructional technology coach, staying side-by-side with active teachers and students so her work stays grounded in real classrooms.

She's a mom of three, wife of one, and loves talking about the wise, transformational use of technology for teaching and doing good in the world.

She has blogged at the Cool Cat Teacher Blog since 2005 and hosts the 10 Minute Teacher Podcast and Cool Cat Teacher Talk (radio, public access TV, YouTube, and all major podcast platforms), interviewing remarkable educators around the world. Vicki focuses on what unites us — a quest for truly remarkable, life-changing teaching and learning. The goal of her work is to provide actionable, encouraging, relevant ideas for teachers, grounded in truth and shared with love.

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1 comment

Britt Watwood April 13, 2008 - 11:48 am

Vicki:

Concur 100% about holding these teens responsible (and trying them as adults to boot). As a judge once said, it may be too late to rehabilitate you, but I can at least send a signal to all others thinking of doing this!

However, I worry that this very small minority may have major impact on attempts to open up access to the internet in schools. I foresee the fear mongers using this as leverage that the internet is evil (as one of the parents said).

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