Safety tips for online surfing/socializing for kids.
I think I have found the perfect place to reflect on the way a network, and specifically how Twitter, can impact on what goes on in the classroom. No mains gas, no telephones, no mobile signal, no internet connection, no possible way to interact with my personal learning network (PLN). Tucked away in the Cornish countryside the location of the cottage we are staying in provokes vocabulary such as: isolated, severed, detached and remote. But similar rhetoric could also be applied to the lack of connection I have with my network. I am removed from the network I want to reflect upon and away from the classroom that it can impact. This perspective is welcome as it offers me clarity of thought, as I write, that I have not had for a long time. In this post I hope to unpick what my Twitter network means to me in terms of my classroom practise and explore the best ways that you can utilise it in your own classroom.
First-year student Chris Avenir is fighting charges of academic misconduct for helping run an online chemistry study group via Facebook last term, where 146 classmates swapped tips on homework questions that counted for 10 per cent of their mark.
The computer engineering student has been charged with one count of academic misconduct for helping run the group – called Dungeons/Mastering Chemistry Solutions after the popular Ryerson basement study room engineering students dub The Dungeon – and another 146 counts, one for each classmate who used the site.
There?s a new breed of networking sites growing on the Web — anti-social sites like Enemybook and Snubster. Some say these sites are a harmless social commentary on the forced cheer of Facebook, but others worry that they may enable online bullying.
I must admit that when I first heard about Twitter I thought it represented the apex of what concerns me about internet technology: solipsism and sound-bite communication. While I obviously spend a great deal of time online and thinking about the potential of these new networked digital communication structures, I also worry about the way that they too easily lead to increasingly short space and t
I decided to make a list of the Top 10 Objections to New Online Tools and What You Can Say in Response. I surveyed my nearly 1300 friends on Twitter and got all kinds of thoughtful replies.
Can Facebook, known as a place for socializing, become part of the research process as well?
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Safety tips for online surfing/socializing for kids.
Social media is all the rage. But why?
There?s a new breed of networking sites growing on the Web — anti-social sites like Enemybook and Snubster. Some say these sites are a harmless social commentary on the forced cheer of Facebook, but others worry that they may enable online bullying.
Can Facebook, known as a place for socializing, become part of the research process as well?
bigthink.com is a new and growing website, currently in its private beta version, with a simple mission. Our task is to move the discussion away from talking heads and talking points, and give it back to you. That is Big Think's mission.
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