Comments for Generation Internet http://generationi.wordpress.com Parents learning to drive as fast as their children on the technological superhighway Sun, 21 Dec 2008 05:36:47 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on Curriculum Helps Teachers Fight Cyberbullying by jcshakespeare http://generationi.wordpress.com/2008/12/16/curriculum-helps-teachers-fight-cyberbullying/#comment-100 jcshakespeare Sun, 21 Dec 2008 05:36:47 +0000 http://generationi.wordpress.com/?p=52#comment-100 This is great to find! I look forward to checking out the curriculum. I've been dealing with students impersonating other students to set up fake pages, students creating Facebook groups to defame teachers, and students taunting students from other schools -- all of which goes against the values we hope to instill as educators. I look forward to becoming more involved in the dialogue. Thanks! This is great to find! I look forward to checking out the curriculum. I’ve been dealing with students impersonating other students to set up fake pages, students creating Facebook groups to defame teachers, and students taunting students from other schools — all of which goes against the values we hope to instill as educators. I look forward to becoming more involved in the dialogue.

Thanks!

]]> Comment on Freshmen Prepared To Intervene With “Juicy Campus” by DOMINO http://generationi.wordpress.com/2008/12/16/freshmen-prepared-to-intervene-with-juicy-campus/#comment-94 DOMINO Tue, 16 Dec 2008 02:55:18 +0000 http://generationi.wordpress.com/?p=48#comment-94 In my experience, when a college receives this type of complaint they deny, cover up, and attack the victim. In my experience, when a college receives this type of complaint they deny, cover up, and attack the victim.

]]> Comment on Raise Web Wise Kids by Lee Lacy http://generationi.wordpress.com/2008/07/23/raise-web-wise-kids/#comment-39 Lee Lacy Sun, 17 Aug 2008 20:06:24 +0000 http://generationi.wordpress.com/?p=26#comment-39 For a fun way for parents to jump-start a discussion about internet and social networking safety, here’s a website that includes an instructional video and a very easy quiz. http://www.auntlee.com/safety/ The video is a selection of silly clips supposedly posted to the MySpace pages of the famous auntlee.com puppy and some of her friends. The clips demonstrate mistakes kids can make online. The 10 question quiz covers the topics of cyber-bullying, privacy, safety, dangers of spyware and malware, etc. The quiz doesn’t really focus on stranger-danger type concerns but rather gently and humorously reminds the reader that it’s possible to hurt people’s feelings, to mislead people who don’t realize you’re joking, to remember that online postings can be seen by anybody and that postings are often impossible to remove once posted. For a fun way for parents to jump-start a discussion about internet and social networking safety, here’s a website that includes an instructional video and a very easy quiz.

http://www.auntlee.com/safety/

The video is a selection of silly clips supposedly posted to the MySpace pages of the famous auntlee.com puppy and some of her friends. The clips demonstrate mistakes kids can make online.

The 10 question quiz covers the topics of cyber-bullying, privacy, safety, dangers of spyware and malware, etc.

The quiz doesn’t really focus on stranger-danger type concerns but rather gently and humorously reminds the reader that it’s possible to hurt people’s feelings, to mislead people who don’t realize you’re joking, to remember that online postings can be seen by anybody and that postings are often impossible to remove once posted.

]]> Comment on Raise Web Wise Kids by Alex Steed [of Make Something Happen] http://generationi.wordpress.com/2008/07/23/raise-web-wise-kids/#comment-22 Alex Steed [of Make Something Happen] Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:14:43 +0000 http://generationi.wordpress.com/?p=26#comment-22 Re: Teenagers and the Internet - I have been checking out a lot of the blogs that feature horror stories about teenagers and the Internet - and there is truth to them. I am sometimes surprised that I survived pieces of my youth since I was online at a time when many parents just thought it was all about stock quotes and encyclopedias. I do think that there is value in teaching kids how to engage, similarly to your suggestion about education/kids games. There are so many ways that kids can get involved in online engagement/politics/issues and become proactive members of society. They can empower themselves. The model obviously works different from how it did for parents, and parents should be figuring out how to look at the world in a less top-down fashion so that they can motivate/challenge their teens successfully. Just as in "real life," more positive, constructive engagement online leads to less time for engaging in risky behavior (Danah Boyd made this point in a Frontline special not long ago). Re: Teenagers and the Internet –

I have been checking out a lot of the blogs that feature horror stories about teenagers and the Internet – and there is truth to them. I am sometimes surprised that I survived pieces of my youth since I was online at a time when many parents just thought it was all about stock quotes and encyclopedias.

I do think that there is value in teaching kids how to engage, similarly to your suggestion about education/kids games. There are so many ways that kids can get involved in online engagement/politics/issues and become proactive members of society. They can empower themselves. The model obviously works different from how it did for parents, and parents should be figuring out how to look at the world in a less top-down fashion so that they can motivate/challenge their teens successfully. Just as in “real life,” more positive, constructive engagement online leads to less time for engaging in risky behavior (Danah Boyd made this point in a Frontline special not long ago).

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]]> Comment on Hello Kitty Phone Makes Parents Mad by Asianmommy http://generationi.wordpress.com/2008/05/21/hello-kitty-phone-makes-parents-mad/#comment-13 Asianmommy Wed, 21 May 2008 13:13:57 +0000 http://generationi.wordpress.com/?p=19#comment-13 I totally agree with you on this. It's a cute product that's completely unnecessary. I would have no problem saying no to this! I totally agree with you on this. It’s a cute product that’s completely unnecessary. I would have no problem saying no to this!

]]> Comment on About by Shaping Youth http://generationi.wordpress.com/about/#comment-11 Shaping Youth Mon, 12 May 2008 01:08:47 +0000 #comment-11 Generation I, the Net Generation, digital natives, gosh, all these monikers...I just posted about this a bit on Wired Campus where they were having a dialogue about 'early adopters' and the myths/misperceptions of the wired web and youth...Would you like to be interviewed for a piece with us on Shaping Youth (using the power of media for positive change?) This blog looks like it will have the potential to pick up where Totally Wired (Anastasia's parental discourse) left off... Shaping Youth started with a parent-focus for K-12 understanding but has since become a fast expanding multi-aged resource... so I'm anxious to hear more from you and see if you'd like to guest post now & then? Best, Amy Jussel Founder, ShapingYouth.org Generation I, the Net Generation, digital natives, gosh, all these monikers…I just posted about this a bit on Wired Campus where they were having a dialogue about ‘early adopters’ and the myths/misperceptions of the wired web and youth…Would you like to be interviewed for a piece with us on Shaping Youth (using the power of media for positive change?) This blog looks like it will have the potential to pick up where Totally Wired (Anastasia’s parental discourse) left off…

Shaping Youth started with a parent-focus for K-12 understanding but has since become a fast expanding multi-aged resource… so I’m anxious to hear more from you and see if you’d like to guest post now & then?

Best, Amy Jussel
Founder, ShapingYouth.org

]]> Comment on What Is Wikipedia? by Shaping Youth http://generationi.wordpress.com/2008/04/03/what-is-wikipedia/#comment-10 Shaping Youth Mon, 12 May 2008 01:03:39 +0000 http://generationi.wordpress.com/?p=10#comment-10 Hey, Vanessa, since I don't like to do vlogs, maybe you can be our spokes person along with Dr. Robyn for Shaping Youth? ;-) --Amy Hey, Vanessa, since I don’t like to do vlogs, maybe you can be our spokes person along with Dr. Robyn for Shaping Youth? ;-) –Amy

]]> Comment on What Is Wikipedia? by seanomalone http://generationi.wordpress.com/2008/04/03/what-is-wikipedia/#comment-2 seanomalone Fri, 11 Apr 2008 04:07:58 +0000 http://generationi.wordpress.com/?p=10#comment-2 Great little vlog Vanessa. Great little vlog Vanessa.

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