http://safeonthenet.edublogs.org Just another Edublogs.org weblog Wed, 25 Jul 2007 21:20:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Students need 21st century skills to be successful citizens.   The student outcomes outlined by The Partnership for 21st Century Skills include: ICT Literacy Life & Career Skills These two areas in particular speak to why the use of Web 2.0 tools is important for schools and students.  Students need the applications of Web ... http://safeonthenet.edublogs.org/2007/07/25/21st-century-students-teachers-schools/ After reading quite a few of the articles on this topic, I am still having a dilemma about YouTube.  We block this type of website in our district and I had difficulty with one teacher emailing the rest of the teachers in the district about how to get around the ... http://safeonthenet.edublogs.org/2007/07/16/the-youtube-dilemma/ After reading several articles about social networking sites, I think Steve Burt’s statement: “The question is do we trust what we’ve taught our students enough to let them use them? I hope so.  If not, that says much more about us as educators than our students as users.” says a ... http://safeonthenet.edublogs.org/2007/07/08/value-of-social-networking/ After reading the articles “Content Delivery in the ‘Blogsphere’” from THE JOURNAL and “Instructional Blogging” as well as visiting blogs this week I think we need to be clear what our expectation is for blogging with our students.  We need to get across to our students that you are publishing ... http://safeonthenet.edublogs.org/2007/07/03/blog-reflections/ Hello all, this is an area where we can learn from one another about teaching our young people to be safe using the web.  So many kids are an open book on the web, they do not fully understand the consequences of this openess.  Many adults have no idea what ... http://safeonthenet.edublogs.org/2007/07/02/3/