Parents+2012

What are the positive outcomes that result from increased availability of technology? **

 * Makes the world smaller
 * Networking possibilities
 * Don’t have to go to the library to do research; can do it from home, online
 * Would like to see everything go digital and do away with textbooks
 * Social circle is broader - become friends with students they might meet at school activities; building relationships
 * Positive feedback through technology/social networking
 * Staying in touch with family members’ activities/accomplishments
 * Feedback - both positive and negative
 * School web sites - accountability for assignments; accessibility to lesson plans, grades, etc.
 * Communication with teachers
 * Extra help with school work - math sites, learning apps; new concept of flipped classrooms
 * More student involvement with technology compared to textbooks
 * Classes brought to your school through distance learning; students can take classes that they might not have the opportunity to take; college courses
 * Safety with vehicles such as On Star; phone to call in case of emergency;

Negatives/Concerns:

 * Lack of face-to-face communication
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Nurturing aspect of dealing with people;
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Too much time spent using technology in unproductive ways
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Not as creative because of apps
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">PlayStation 3 instead of going outside; or reading or other game app
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Book: Last Sound in the Woods or Last Child in the Woods
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">spending too much time in digital activities
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Don’t ever put anything on the Internet that you do not want a potential employer to read! “Can’t ever take anything back” once it is posted, it is there forever! Video: Kitchen Video (If you wouldn’t say it in person, why would you say it online?)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Everything posted on line becomes your “personal brand”
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Easy to take things out of context
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Sometimes texting abbreviations can effect spelling
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Do you know phone numbers? Now we just click on their name to dial.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Not knowing as much personal information - just a click away
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">All of the availability on the Internet and students’ natural curiosity can sometimes make them go onto unsafe web sites.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Some parents don’t care where there students go on the Internet
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Privacy - how much private information is on the web?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Video - TV shows
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Attention Span - harder to keep their attention; maximum attention span 45 seconds (30 seconds for younger) students
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Multi-tasking - don’t go into depth of a topic - multi-grazing
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Making the world smaller because they have more opportunity to “bad” sites; linking to inappropriate groups; desensitizes students;
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">No boundaries
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">If parents don’t spend time with their kids, they don’t learn the appropriate behaviors. Adults/Parents need to teach students right from wrong; spend quality time together, provide religious guidance.

===<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What are the chief issues dealing with Digital Citizenship (DC) in the public schools? ===
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Proper etiquette - how they should use, what sites they should go
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Start at a younger age to teach Digital Citizenship
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Blocking sites at the school
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Teach students how to appropriately use Facebook, etc.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Teach how to budget their time
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">One-to-one schools - only students who are in high school are allowed to take the laptops home; need to balance the access so if student cannot complete a project at school, they can finish at home
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Not allowed to take a reader to school
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Concern for BYOD - “bring your own device” to school so they don’t take up bandwidth at the school


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Possible Next Steps: **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Parental education
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">World is getting smaller (more connected through technology)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Form an advocacy group
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">CIPA requirements for digital citizenship at all grade levels (K-12)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Assembly for grade groups (K-6, Middle School, High School), educators and parents
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Offer podcasts
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Self-education
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Offer a technology night (a variety of stations set up similar to a science fair)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Set up a bootcamp - attendance required by both student and parent in order to receive laptop
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Print in newsletters, publicize on school web sites, all call system to inform parents of technology opportunities

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 24px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Other:
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Web site that captures web sites: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|http://waybackmachine.org]