Ann Collier - We don't teach knife safety in culinary classes - YOU TEACH Cooking! Net safety is about use not fear. The kids most at risk online are most at risk off line. Media Literacy + Digital Citizenship = Net Safety 3.0. Students need to use social media so they can practice digital citizenship. We may be making online safety too difficult.
2 kinds of social networking Friendship and Interest driven.
People take care of each other in a community!! Online safety is a community - they watch each other's backs. Barring social media from schools means decoupling education and school from students. Missing opportunity for student and schools. Loss of school's relevancy for youth. Can't teach swimming without a pool! GET BUSY GUIDING AND ENRICHING WITH SOCIAL MEDIA. Virtual worlds growing exponentially. Fastest growing category 5-9 year olds. Pixie Hollow - Webkins - Barbie world - Poptopica Pearson. 11-15 - We world, ???? "No purpose in any school having a firewall" because kids are coming into schools with cellphones with internet access. Best filter is cognitive filter - MORAL Conscience - the filter between kids ears. Focused on "what media are doing to young people - should be asking "what young people are doing with media". MEDIA ETHICS
Online Safetly 3.0 is Respectful, Contextual - safety for full participation, kEmpowering students - constructive participation
