Online Safety - Growing Up Online Video

As I prepare for a presentation tomorrow at a large metropolitan Melbourne school I have been thinking and developing my slides and information. not that I don't know it but that I have a passion for sharing and exploring the issues we as educators face and getting the message right is very important especially when speaking to 250+ people.

I came across the following site/video which is a must watch for all teachers, parents and anyone involved with students or children going online. The video was released last week in the US on the PBS network as part of the Frontline program. Growing Up Online explores a large number of issues about students growing up online and the challenges that everyone face from parents to teachers and most importantly students.

There are teacher notes coming in Feb and these should be useful, the website as a whole has lots of information and links and provides a lot of good useful information. It is important to note that the show does focus on the negative side of going online, and that anyone using or showing clips need to ensure audiences know that going online has a lot of advantages and positives - we just need to get a balance and educate our children and their parents and teachers.

The following are a couple of posts on the video Growing Up Online - they are worth a visit:

Engage or entertain?

FRONTLINE "Growing Up Online"

Comments

[Steve]

Thanks for spreading the word on this film. But please also read the complete teacher interview transcripts that accompany the PBS site. The role of technology in education was only tangential to the focus of the film and therefore the few short quotes included in the final version do not accurately represent our views. I have tried to more fully explore this issues as well - http://mrmaher.wordpress.com/