There is a Passion natural to the Mind of man, especially a free Man, which renders him impatient of Restraint. George Mason, Father of the Bill of Rights

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There is a Passion natural to the Mind of man,
especially a free Man, which renders him
impatient of Restraint. George Mason, Father of
the Bill of Rights
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• By Jonathan Morris
• ITRT for English/Language Arts
• Henrico County Public Schools
• jjmorris_at_henrico.k12.va.us

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The Need

• Many schools and communities lack the vision and
  a cohesive philosophy to make the right decisions
  regarding telecommunications in education.
• Students need to be prepared to live and work in
  a new world.
• More adults can identify the Three Stooges than
  the branches of government.

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Schools Telecommunications Decisions

• Instruction
• Safety and Security
• Hardware and software tools

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Instructional Decisions
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Hardware and Software Decisions
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Safety and Security
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The Recently Flattened World
Is this the Sputnik of the 21st century?
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Why Use ?

• The nature of our government, that is
  something you have to learn. It just isn't handed
  down in the genetic pool."
• -Sandra Day O Conner quoted in USA Today.
• These are familiar ideas that the community can
  understand and are more likely to support

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The Bill of Digital Rights for Students

• http//staffdev.henrico.k12.va.us/morrisjj/bdr/

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Freedom of Digital Speech

• Students have the right to utilize
  telecommunication tools in learning and as part
  of a larger school community that interacts using
  such tools.

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• Employers identify applied skills they want for
  their employees, and they have said that our high
  school graduates are not fully prepared in, along
  with other categories,
• Oral and Written Communication
• Teamwork and Collaboration
• Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
• Information Technology Application
• Ethics and Social Responsibility

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Schools need to use Natives skills and
tendencies.

• 1/2 of all teens and 57 of teens who use the
  internet could be considered Content Creators.
  They have created a blog or webpage, posted
  original artwork, photography, stories or videos
  online or remixed online content into their own
  new creations.
• from Pew Internet and American Life Project 2005

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In Addition

• Todays average college grads have spent less
  than 5,000 hours of their lives reading, but over
  10,000 hours playing video games (not to mention
  20,000 hours watching TV). Computer games,
  email, the Internet, cell phones and instant
  messaging are integral parts of their
  lives. Marc Prensky

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Teacher Issues

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• Text shorthand degrading
• student writing?

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Informal to formal communications combine with a
reading and writing across the curriculum program
(RWAC) to enhance learning.

• Thoughts are not merely expressed in words they
  come into being through them.
• Lev Vygotsky

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• Which RWAC strategies can be enhanced?

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Look at the strategies on the following
sites http//teachers.henrico.k12.va.us/henrico/
morris_j/lica/index_files/Page1055.htm
http//hcps2.hanover.k12.va.us/ches/criss/tools
strategies.htm http//staffdev.henrico.k12.va.us
/morrisjj/electricdocs/Home.html
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Freedom of Digital Speech

• Students have the right to utilize
  telecommunication tools in learning and as part
  of a larger school community that interacts using
  such tools.

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What does the Literature Say?

• Studies imply that publishing writing is
  correlated with higher performance levels of
  writing.
• Cotton (1988) states that Sommers Collins
  (1984), Smith (1982), Glattorn (1981), and
  Wesdorp (1983) have found that student motivation
  and writing achievement are enhanced when student
  work is published for a larger audience other
  than the teacher. The vast majority of students
  published works are self-published classroom or
  school booklets, magazines, newspapers,
  calendars, and so forth.
• Not only does publication encourage students to
  write by creating purpose and vision, but it also
  serves to improve writing skills. This is
  accomplished by encouraging students to revise
  and put forth greater overall effort.
• from http//www.publishingstudents.com/researchben
  efits.html

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Some Examples

• Short class assignment on blog http//byrdmiddle.o
  rg/coee/?p11comments
• A school newspaper website http//silverchips.mbhs
  .edu/
• Morning announcements podcasts http//www.podcastd
  irectory.com/podshows/168625
• Artwork scanned or photographed and put online
  http//art2know.com/

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Publishing Between Classes

• Ideal for across the curriculum projects.
  Imagine a wiki drama on the life of Galileo.
• Social studies scenes about the history and
  politics involved.
• Math scenes explaining formulas of his work with
  figures and diagrams.
• Science action scenes of his experiments,
  comparing them to the scientific method.
• English edit, revise, organize, and format the
  work for production.

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Among Communities

• E-mail experts or ePals create and publish web
  pages, newsletters, and blogs make calls with
  VoIP

Would this happen in your school? Four students
doing a report on local water quality. They set
up and have a conference call with the county
water commissioner?
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Extra-Curricular Activities What the Literature
Says

• Adolescents who participated in greater numbers
  of structured extracurricular activities reported
  higher school satisfaction. Journal of Youth and
  Adolescence, 2004
• total participation was significantly and
  favorably related to 17 of 22 senior and
  postsecondary outcomes (e.g., social and academic
  self-concept, educational aspirations, coursework
  selection, homework, absenteeism, academic
  achievement, and subsequent college attendance).
  Herbert W. Marsh
• Amount of participation was positively related to
  academic achievement. The relationship was
  stronger for white students overall, and for
  school-related activities for both groups. Susan
  Gerber

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• Our schools would benefit from communities that
  are as blind to race, economic status,
  neighborhood, and complexion as online
  communities.

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• What kind of groups should students be allowed to
  assemble?

Groups such Fellowship of Christian Athletes and
Gay Straight Alliance can easily have resources
without the sponsorship that can be controversial
and illegal.
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• If we allowed prayer in schools, students
  wouldnt need to take religious holidays.
• --Stephen Colbert

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How do we protect kids?

• Internet Safety programs
• Limit Free Speech
• Secure Student Environments

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Secure Student Environments

• Are protected by firewalls and filters.
• Allow administrators and teachers to view all
  student writings
• Do not allow students to erase or delete anything
• Link author to all writings and communications
• Have software that censors and reports
  inappropriate words
• Allow users to report abuse
• Have vigilant, human administrator(s)

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Inside the firewall or outside the firewall?

• Document exchange system
• Document storage system
• Chat rooms
• Message boards
• Parent communication portal
• School publications

• Teacher blogs
• Student blogs
• Teacher email
• Student email
• Wikis
• Teacher web pages
• Student web pages

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• A student at an Indianapolis-area school was
  expelled for making sexually explicit comments
  about a teacher on MySpace.
• Officials at a Pittsburgh school kicked a student
  off the volleyball team for an Internet message
  that criticized an art teacher.
• A cheerleader at a Fort Worth-area school was
  kicked off the squad for derogatory comments
  someone posted on her blog about other
  cheerleaders.
• http//www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/artic
  le/2006/10/28/AR2006102800803_pf.html
• http//www.usatoday.com/news/education/2006-10-25-
  school-blogs_x.htm

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• "I was shocked and kind of annoyed, and it was
  kind of an invasion of privacy," she said.
  Although no one got in trouble, word spread like
  wildfire, and many of her classmates reset their
  privacy settings to block unapproved users from
  accessing their pages, she said.

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School/Parent Connection

• Parents need to understand the benefits and the
  dangers of technology use in schools and at home.
  
• Schools must assure parents that the most is
  being made of the investments in technology and
  at the same time that everything reasonable is
  being done to keep students safe and secure.