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and YOU

• Dr. Lesley Farmer
• California State University Long Beach
• With contributions by Glen Warren (McPherson MS)

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Our World
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Library Association of the University of
California

• Whereas, students in California higher education
  institutions are expected prior to admission to
  be prepared to conduct information research and
  think critically by having had instruction at the
  secondary school level in identifying, locating,
  evaluating and using information effectively and
  ethically

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Library Association of the University of
California

• Whereas, students are overwhelmed with
  information of all sorts and need guidance in
  learning how to become "information literate" so
  that they can identify, locate, evaluate and use
  information effectively and ethically

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Whats the Biggest Learning Gapfor College
Freshmen? Finding information!

• Finding books classification and catalogs
• Going beyond Google and Wikipedia
• Determining the best kinds of sources
• Knowing different types of sources
  scholarly/peer-reviewed journals, primary
  sources, article vs. journal
• How to choose a database (what IS a database?)
• Use of key words
• How to cite correctly
• And some are just scared about libraries
• The issue is often quality, not
  quantity

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What Do Our Children Need to Know and Do?

• Be information literate access, evaluate, use
• Be a lifelong learner pursue interests, read,
  generate knowledge
• Be socially responsible uphold democracy, be
  ethical, cooperate

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Two Separate Worlds?
Digital
Physical
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Connected Worlds
Physidigital
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Who Wants your Students Attention
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What Are They Doing?

• Social Producing
• Learning Social Rules
• Designing Profiles
• Exploring Identity
• Writing Blogs
• Writing Software Codes
• Sharing Producing Music
• Discussion Interests
• Social and Political Activism
• Keeping Friends
• Risk Assessment

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What ELSE Are They Doing?

• Seeking Validation
• Competing Popularity
• Venting
• Showing Off
• Embarrassing Self
• Crowded Isolation
• Damaging Reputation
• Pulling Pranks
• Getting Even
• Threatening
• Harassing
• Bullying

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Digital Reputation

• Who are your children?

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• Using technology
• Safely
• Responsibly
• Critically
• Pro-actively

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Issues

• Sexting
• Legal Issues
• Consequences
• Response Plan

• Cyber Bullying
• Legal Issues
• Bystander Ethics
• Response Plan

• Phishing
• You are a winner!
• Protect Information
• Permission

• File Sharing
• Its FREE!
• Legal Issues
• Consequences

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Better Issues

• Field Trips
• Legal Issues
• Consequences
• Response Plan

• Making a Difference
• Legal Issues
• Bystander Ethics
• Response Plan

• Savvy Students
• You are a winner!
• Protect Information
• Permission

• Creators of Content
• Its FREE!
• Legal Issues
• Consequences

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Where are your children?
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Cyber Safety Obsolete Models

• Cyber Safety 1.0 Crime and Adult Content
• Cyber Safety 2.0 Peer to Peer Harm
• Common Elements
• One Size Fits All
• Fear Based
• Youth as Potential Victims
• Technology both problem and solution
• Social Media Highly Suspect
• Result Power Down and Disconnect Effect

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School Community needs to know. . .
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Cyber Bullying

• Roles and Culture
• Victim
• Bully
• Harmful Bystander
• Positive Bystander

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Cyber bullying

• If your child has a problem with a bully,
  dont react to the bully
• Talk with a trusted adult
• Save the evidence
• Block the bully online
• Encourage each other to help stop cyberbullying
  by not passing on other messages and telling the
  bully to stop.

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Cyberbullying Websites

• http//www.cyberbullying.ca
• http//www.bullyonline.org/related/cyber.htm
• http//CyberBully411.org
• http//Cyberbullying.us

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The Districts Authority to Suspend or Expel
Students

• Education Code section 48900(r)
• Grounds for suspension and expulsion include
• Engaged in an act of bullying, including but
  not limited to, bullying committed by means of an
  electronic act, as defined in subdivisions (f)
  and (g) of Section 32261, directed specifically
  toward a pupil or school personnel.

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Responsible Use

• Plagiarism
• Cheating
• Downloading illegally
• Sharing files illegally

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Citizenship Holistic Approach

• Four Perspectives
• Legislative
• Community
• Literacy
• Technology

Enforcing
Educating
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Critical Use Requires Information Literacy

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New Literacies

• Technology Literacy
• Information Literacy
• Media Creativity
• Global Literacy
• Literacy with Responsibility

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Teen Internet Truisms

• Wikipedia is king
• Google is awesome
• Want news? Go online
• Social networking is good for homework
• IMgt email / Email is so yesterday its for
  old people and teachers
• If its not on the front page, it probably isnt
  worthwhile anyway
• Good enough is good enough
• Free is good
• Downloading is OK as long as youre not selling
  it
• I get scared sometimes, but I can take care of
  myself

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Education Changing Paradigms

• content gtgtgt text on screen
• closed libraries gtgtgt open access
• interaction gtgtgt with content AND machine
• TODAY
• relationships - instructional, social and
  supportive
• digital multimedia learning objects
• TOMORROW (literally!)
• managed eLearning environments
• the e-Classroom
• m-Learning

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2010
2020
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Communities of Learning

• Autonomous, sustained group of people with common
  values and goals
• Social and academic/professional development
• Socialization, norms, and openness
• Collaborative learning
• Individual and group accountability
• Distributed leadership

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What You Parents Bring

• Knowledge of your child
• Life experience
• Moral compass

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What You Parents Can Do

• Communicate! which includes listening
• Share and respect each others worlds
• Express positive attitudes about technology
• Explore technologies together
• Link technologies to life
• Help empower your children

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Family Activities

• Healthy eating
• Comparison shopping
• Ad-smarts
• Energy savings
• Getting advice
• eReading
• Planning real and virtual trips
• Digital storytelling and scrapbooking
• Sharing stories about workplace tech

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Empower Youth Using Technology

• Review books, media, Internet sites
• Add content on community websites
• Create products for the community photos,
  artwork, videos, displays, posters, newsletters,
  web pages
• Train others in technology use
• Do service learning
• Conduct oral and community history

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Give One Get One

• Take a moment to think about one aspect of the
  presentation that may result in new action at the
  school site. (1 minute)
• Share with a elbow partner one thing you gained,
  and receive from your partner one thing he/she
  gained. (3 minutes)

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Because children are our future!