Comments on: Deleting Online Teens Act http://www.teach42.com/2006/08/08/deleting-online-teens-act/ Education and Technology by Steve Dembo Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:39:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Jewell Folta http://www.teach42.com/2006/08/08/deleting-online-teens-act/#comment-48769 Jewell Folta Thu, 10 Aug 2006 11:43:46 +0000 http://www.teach42.com/2006/08/08/deleting-online-teens-act/#comment-48769 Amen!! Teaching students to be safe on the Internet, I feel, should be part of the curriculum. Starting in Kindergarten, students should be learning Internet Safety and it should continue well into high school. If you think about it, nobody has really taught today's teenagers Internet Safety. Most everything they have learned and are engaging in has been all on their own. They're growing up in the Digital Age where their parents and teachers did not. It would be great to see this part of the curriculum. iSafe America http://www.isafe.org/ is a great place to start. It has free PD and free K-12 curriculum once you complete the PD. Thanks for the post =) Amen!! Teaching students to be safe on the Internet, I feel, should be part of the curriculum. Starting in Kindergarten, students should be learning Internet Safety and it should continue well into high school. If you think about it, nobody has really taught today’s teenagers Internet Safety. Most everything they have learned and are engaging in has been all on their own. They’re growing up in the Digital Age where their parents and teachers did not. It would be great to see this part of the curriculum. iSafe America http://www.isafe.org/ is a great place to start. It has free PD and free K-12 curriculum once you complete the PD. Thanks for the post =)

]]> By: Andrew Pass http://www.teach42.com/2006/08/08/deleting-online-teens-act/#comment-48695 Andrew Pass Wed, 09 Aug 2006 22:10:42 +0000 http://www.teach42.com/2006/08/08/deleting-online-teens-act/#comment-48695 I couldn't agree more. It's essential for students to learn how to be safe even as they use social software on the Internet. We should take it for granted that they are going to use the Internet. Now we need to decide if we want them to have the skills to use it wisely. Prohibiting students from using social software at school would have been a lot like prohbiting them from going on field trips in days gone by. Because once you leave the school and go out onto the streets dangerous things can happen. Yes, this is true. But to forbid field trips would have been absurd. Smart adults should want students to develop "Internet smarts" which nicely compliment "street smarts." Andrew Pass http://www.Pass-Ed.com/blogger.html I couldn’t agree more. It’s essential for students to learn how to be safe even as they use social software on the Internet. We should take it for granted that they are going to use the Internet. Now we need to decide if we want them to have the skills to use it wisely. Prohibiting students from using social software at school would have been a lot like prohbiting them from going on field trips in days gone by. Because once you leave the school and go out onto the streets dangerous things can happen. Yes, this is true. But to forbid field trips would have been absurd. Smart adults should want students to develop “Internet smarts” which nicely compliment “street smarts.”

Andrew Pass
http://www.Pass-Ed.com/blogger.html

]]> By: Kimberly Moritz http://www.teach42.com/2006/08/08/deleting-online-teens-act/#comment-48682 Kimberly Moritz Wed, 09 Aug 2006 16:37:16 +0000 http://www.teach42.com/2006/08/08/deleting-online-teens-act/#comment-48682 AMEN. Thank you for a terrific post, much along what I've been thinking lately--well done. AMEN. Thank you for a terrific post, much along what I’ve been thinking lately–well done.

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