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How has our society changed-Richard Florida's work-Ask Nick for graphs on workforce. What is the impetus for change? i.e. Tony Wagner's Global Achievement Gap

What are the realities of social media... [|Response to Principal's ban of social media] , [|Social media Pros and Cons with visuals] ) What are the possibilities for our school when we embrace technology? Virtual Reality-3D 21st Century Skills Greyson's YouTube video Digital footprint
 * use?
 * pros? (
 * cons? (Are the issues truly technology issues, or are they supervision/education issues? i.e facebook-do we need to develop policies of teacher/student facebook interactions or do we already have technologies that address those issues?)

Possible tools to present information about social media/technology: Wiki Screencast-Screenr Prezi Sliderocket Youtube Quick capture

[|Nick's blog] [|Are you googleable?] [|Scott McLeod's Fear blog post] [|Social media Pros and Cons with visuals] [|Online predators blog post]

Facts about online predators What percentage of predators are true strangers to the child as opposed to a family member, youth leader, etc? That is what the law was intended to protect against. Have groups share their answers. Actually statistic was about 5%. So first cut is most children aren’t victims of predators. Second cut, only 5% of victims come from strangers.

We talked about who, now lets talk about how. How much of those inappropriate contacts come from online contacts as opposed to face to face interactions? Groups share their answers. We actually don’t have numbers on this, but we are getting them. It is probably very low. The police are starting to track this data. Lets be wildly conservative and say 40% although that is way too high. What is 40% of 5%......2%....now we are down to 2%

Now lets talk about where-What percent comes at schools as opposed to homes, library, at a friends? Have groups share their answers. Actually numbers are about 9%-0.18 percent of 1 percent is 9% of 2 percent. That is even with very conservative numbers. 0.18% of online predation occurs at schools. That is Is that worth federal legislation? Do we then really need these laws?

There were also some important findings in a recent federal online safety task force that were highlighted in eSchoolNews and [|1to1schools.net]. “the statistical probability of a young person being physically assaulted by an adult who they first met online is extremely low” "young people’s use of social networking sites does not increase their risk of victimization" "Restricting or forbidding access to social networking sites will likely do more harm than good, because social networking sites and the way young people use those sites have created not only places for social interaction, but also “informal learning environments" "students would greatly benefit if educators are able to incorporate social networking sites into classroom instruction" "Unless new media are used in schools and within families, youth are on their own in figuring out the ethics, social norms, and civil behaviors that enable good citizenship in the online part of their media use and lives" "Avoid scare tactics and promote the social-norms approach to risk prevention." [|Executive summary of social media] Acceptable use policy page with resources [|Response to Principal's ban of social media]
 * [|Greyson video]

Other fun videos
 * [|I Gotta Feeling]
 * [|Shots 'R' Us]
 * [|Guitar]
 * [|Fred 1]
 * [|Star Wars Uncut]
 * [|Huffington Post 1]
 * [|Fred 2]
 * [|Fred 3]
 * [|Channels]
 * [|Huffington Post 2]
 * [|TechCrunch]

Other
[|Bullying project blog post]