The nation’s President delivered a very motivational message to a group of obviously excited students at Wakefield High School in Arlington, yet many of our nation’s students missed this message intended for them. As I was listening to it, I thought of Kennedy’s speech which inspired us to go to the moon, and how his [...]
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More resources for promoting responsible use of networking
October 9th, 2007 · 2 Comments · EthicsChallenge, Tools
In keeping with the conversations (Karl Fisch, Wes Fryer, Doug Johnson, myself, and others) going on around the blogosphere about filtering, access, and social networking in schools, I wanted to share this excellent toolkit from YALSA (Young Adult Library Services Association) entitled “Teens and Social Networking in School and Public Libraries.” The toolkit has ideas appropriate for librarians [...]
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“Wikiality,” “truthiness” and research
March 25th, 2007 · No Comments · EthicsChallenge, Research
When grading a stack of student papers, Jacqueline Hicks Grazette, a teacher at St. Albans High School in the D.C. area, recently noticed that a student used Wikipedia to answer a question, and had made a note of it on his paper. That, among other things, led her to write this opinion column in the Washington [...]
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A new vision for copyright
February 20th, 2007 · No Comments · EthicsChallenge, Web 2.0
As more and more content is used and shared online, the once clear rules regarding copyright become more and more blurred. Mash-up videos combine songs (copyrighted) with original video or edited news clips(copyrighted) with songs, or mix clips from movies(copyrighted), or…. The list goes on and on. Lawrence Lessig, author of Free Culture, a book [...]
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Ethical questions
February 18th, 2007 · 3 Comments · EthicsChallenge, Uncategorized
How can we help our students use wise behaviors online? That question has been getting a bit of discussion lately because of a recent article in the New York Times. I’ve been thinking it would be interesting to compile a collaborative list of online “ethics” questions for students to discuss and consider. The article has been getting [...]
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Politics 2.0–Advertising versus content?
February 15th, 2007 · 2 Comments · EthicsChallenge
Compared to the last presidential election, where the new web 2.0 tools were mainly part of a grassroots movement, the use of Web 2.0 tools like YouTube, Blogs, etc., is now a mainstream part of a campaign. TechCrunch draws our attention to a new site, techPresident, which is tracking the web 2.0 trail of all the [...]
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Challenges of using web sources
January 26th, 2007 · 2 Comments · EthicsChallenge
On his blog 2 Cents Worth, David Warlick posts a question for teachers for an article which will appear in May’s issue of Cable in the Classroom. What is your greatest challenge in teaching appropriate, ethical use of web-based media to your students?” Since we have discussed that question here frequently, I would be interested [...]
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