NEIT2010-Cybersmart+--+What+is+it?


 * CYBERSMART Open Space Session #3** Allyson Noel

(now owned by Commonsense Media) cybersmartcurriculum.org

Goes up to high school

SMART definition --Safety --Manners --Authentic Learning --Research and Information Fluency --Twenty-first century challenges

Anybody can teach, theoretically

Students need to be prepared before they start their digital footprint

Start with: --Private information: what is it, why not send it out to cyberspace --Digital footprint

Half hour lessons/ Gives materials, list, lesson plans, NETS reference, script, assessments, extensions, notes to families—everything a teacher would need to teach the unit. Gives real life situations that students can discuss—receiving spam

Sequential? Subject to subject. Could be a year long curriculum. Can do w/ 1-to-1 or with students sharing computers

Could also use the program to educate TEACHERS

//CYBERBULLYING// --5th grade too late to start talking about cyberbullying. Teaching them what it is --School should reinforce the education of kids on the ethical issues, which really needs to start at home. So need to educate the parents, who may not know what to do and how to approach it. --Technology facilitating the bullying.

--Care Program type of support necessary to raise awareness of ethical issues. Students need a face they can come to about bullying.

Viewed __Digital Dossier__ clip—traces from 5th month of pregnancy and first sonogram, through to adulthood and even after death.

Some discussion of identity theft and what age appropriate to discuss. Target kids and the elderly.

Information literacy crucial