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Investigating attitudes towards online safety and security, and evaluating a peer-led Internet safety programme for 14– to 16-year-olds: final report
Research Grants 2009 - Harnessing Technology Project. Recognising the significant e-safety issues facing young people, students aged between 14 and 16 were encouraged to engage peer-based activities to raise their own awareness of threats and appropriate responses
Digital Media and Youth: Unparalleled Opportunity and Unprecedented Responsibility
Part of the Volume on Digital Media, Youth, and Credibility This chapter argues that understanding credibility is particularly complex -- and consequential -- in the digital media environment, especially for youth audiences, who have both advantages and disadvantages due to their relationship with contemporary technologies and their life experience. The chapter explains what is, and what is not, new about credibility in the context of digital media, and discusses the major thrusts of current credibility concerns for scholars, educators, and youth
E-safety and Web 2.0: Web 2.0 technologies for learning at Key Stages 3 and 4
Becta commissioned the University of Nottingham in conjunction with London Knowledge Lab and Manchester Metropolitan University to research Web 2.0 technologies for learning at Key Stages 3 and 4. This is the fourth report from that research and concentrates on the e-safety aspects of Web 2.0 in education
Website Blocked: Filtering Technology in Schools and School Libraries
This paper investigates the impact of filtering software in K-12 schools and school libraries. The Children\u27s Internet Protection Act, or CIPA, requires that public schools and school libraries use filtering technology in order to receive discounted rates on technology. As a result, nearly all public elementary and secondary schools today use filtering technology. While the provisions of CIPA narrowly define the content to be blocked, filters are often set to block much more than is required. Filtering technology is often ineffective, and many unobjectionable sites end up being blocked, including Web 2.0 sites and tools needed to educate students in a 21st century learning environment. Filtering software raises other issues as well, such as First Amendment implications, a possible digital divide between students that have unfiltered access to online content at home and those that do not, and the loss of opportunity to educate students on how to be good digital citizens. These issues should be acknowledged and addressed. There are many options available to librarians, educators, administrators, and other stakeholders that can increase students\u27 access to online information and educational tools while still protecting children from inappropriate online content and complying with the requirements of CIPA
The DKAP Project The Country Report of Vietnam
Viet Nam is at the beginning of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. In order to grasp the opportunities that the revolution has brought about, and to successfully build the society of digital citizens, there must be the demand of enhancing the capacity and capability for students to meet international standards in terms of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) skills. Viet Nam was selected as one of the four countries (Viet Nam, Bangladesh, Fiji, and the Republic of Korea) to join UNESCO Bangkok’s “Digital Kids Asia Pacific (DKAP)” project, a comparative cross-national study with the aim to seek the understanding and address children’s ICT practices, attitudes, behaviors, and competency levels within an educational context. Thanks to the project, the Vietnamese research team completely conducted the survey in twenty (20) schools from five (5) provinces in Viet Nam. With the data on the digital citizenship competency levels of 1,061 10th grade students, the research team discovered the valuable findings to draw an initial big picture for Vietnamese policy makers, educators, and teachers about digital citizenship competencies of 15-year-old Vietnamese students
Cyber-Democracy or Cyber-Hegemony? Exploring the Political and Economic Structures of the Internet as an Alternative Source of Information
Although government regulation of the Internet has been decried as undercutting
free speech, the control of Internet content through capitalist
gateways???namely, profit-driven software companies???has gone largely
uncriticized. The author argues that this discursive trend manufactures
consent through a hegemonic force neglecting to confront the invasion of
online advertising or marketing strategies directed at children. This study
suggests that ???inappropriate content??? (that is, nudity, pornography, obscenities)
constitutes a cultural currency through which concerns and responses
to the Internet have been articulated within the mainstream. By examining
the rhetorical and financial investments of the telecommunications
business sector, the author contends that the rhetorical elements creating
???cyber-safety??? concerns within the mainstream attempt to reach the consent
of parents and educators by asking them to see some Internet content as
value laden (sexuality, trigger words, or adult content), while disguising
the interests and authority of profitable computer software and hardware
industries (advertising and marketing). Although most online ???safety measures???
neglect to confront the emerging invasion of advertising/marketing
directed at children and youth, the author argues that media literacy in
cyberspace demands such scrutiny. Unlike measures to block or filter online
information, students need an empowerment approach that will enable
them to analyze, evaluate, and judge the information they receive.published or submitted for publicatio
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