![]:)](http://www.blogsafety.com/images/emoticons/devil.gif) Hi, I'm new to this forum but have been teaching Internet safety since the mid 90ties . Ergo I know what I am talking about. Sadly , my co - teachers are hopelessly lost when it comes to this. It seems as if the more the children master the use of computers/ the more viruses are created/ the more internet meet-ups there are.....the less the teachers bother to get involved. It is partially because "we are not paid to...",partially because the forgot to jump the train when it left the station. Embarrassing - after all Norway was the third country in the world on the ARPANET,the first country to get a domain (xxx.no) Question : US teachers - US schools - are they good at teaching internet safety\netiquette ? Olav\Norway
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olav
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Re: Teachers are hopelessly LOST
Oct 4, 2006 11:58 AM
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Nancy, >
> I am going to be starting a teacher's forum on
> BlogSafety called Cyber-Savvy Teachers. I'm looking forward to this ! Norwegian teachers are - if they bother - using fear and threats ,instead of implementing a reflected attitude. till later, Olav  -- Edited by olav at 10/04/2006 11:59 AM |
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Nancywillard
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Re: Teachers are hopelessly LOST
Oct 3, 2006 1:37 PM
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Hi Olav,
I am going to be starting a teacher's forum on BlogSafety called Cyber-Savvy Teachers. I hope we can use this as a forum for educators to develop and share understandings so that we can better address these concerns.
One major concern I have about current Internet safety efforts in the US is that they provide young people with simplistic rules that are fear-based. My approach is to protect younger kids and to make sure teens have sufficient knowledge, skills, and values to engage in effective online decision-making.
I am sure we will talk further. Nancy
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Re: Teachers are hopelessly LOST
Sep 30, 2006 10:29 AM
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Great to have you with us, Olav. It's a pretty complex picture here, because we have so many different kinds of schools and school governance. Correct me if I'm wrong, educators in this forum, but I can say that we have "top-down" states in which curriculum and policy is set at the state-government level, "bottom-up" states in which each school district (or region) within a state decides things, including whether to implement online safety education. And we have private schools (each of which sets its own policy) and growing numbers of Internet-based schools, some of which are governed by district or state education systems. So online safety in US schools is all over the map, and in many cases still non-existent. There are a couple of federally funded safety programs that some state education departments and districts have adopted. But I think what we're seeing in the online-kids advocacy field is that safety training is a long-term process that includes online-citizenship training and critical-thinking and media-literacy training and is best done in and out of the classroom (kind of like raising a child!). In other words, Internet safety touches on a lot of aspects of life and learning and needs to be folded into many parts of schooling from the ground up. We're far from forming a consensus on that, though, much less implementing it. All best,
Anne
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Rasma
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Re: Teachers are hopelessly LOST
Sep 30, 2006 9:56 AM
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Simply put, in my school the teachers can bearly run computers. I have to help most of them alot. There is one semi knowlageable teacher, but my friend and I know more then her which is quite sad. They try to teach it but do not do a good job
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olav
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Teachers are hopelessly LOST
Sep 30, 2006 8:06 AM
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Hi, I'm new to this forum but have been teaching Internet safety since the mid 90ties . Ergo I know what I am talking about. Sadly , my co - teachers are hopelessly lost when it comes to this. It seems as if the more the children master the use of computers/ the more viruses are created/ the more internet meet-ups there are.....the less the teachers bother to get involved. It is partially because "we are not paid to...",partially because the forgot to jump the train when it left the station. Embarrassing - after all Norway was the third country in the world on the ARPANET,the first country to get a domain (xxx.no) Question : US teachers - US schools - are they good at teaching internet safety\netiquette ? Olav\Norway |
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