I am happy to announce that today marks the first anniversary of the Teaching for the Future Podcast. Today's episode I'm going to reflect on my year about podcasting about education and how a lot of the issues we talk about here are recursive and seem to keep popping up. Thanks to Chris Penn for the Intro.
NEWS:
I had death threats in high school by Chris Pirillo: Do unchecked bullies grow up to be unchecked bullies?
Dude's Cyber Girlfriend Actually a Dude from DailyGaming.net: I think this is a story as old as the internet, and illustrates how you can be anyone on the internet.
Does what happens on the Facebook, stay on the Facebook? by Christopher Sessums: This is an interesting video that talks about the real cost of the Facebook. The video goes further and hypothises that the companies that run the facebook are using the infromation as a mix of marketing data and for government intelligence. I think Sessums said it best in his post when he stated.
"It does seem to be a reasonable question to ask: Where does the information collected by social networking sites go? Who has access to it? What will it be used for?"
Gingrich urges an end to Bilingual Education from CNN.com: It does not surprise me that Gingrich does not support bilingual education. He feels that all children should be learning English in schools. Gingrich believes that it leaves students at a disadvantage and "allowing bilingualism to continue to grow is very dangerous." (from the article)
I think his statements make it obvious that he is not really familiar with bilingual programs. Students in bilingual programs learn Spanish and English side by side so that their language skills will not prevent them from learning class material. Using both languages side by side has also shown to allow students to learn to speak English faster. I think it is a bad idea to prevent students from getting the help they need because Gingrich seems to want to penalize students for speaking the wrong language.
RESOURCES:Aaron "the Art Guy" Smith is an art teacher who does a really great podcast, called the
Academic Aesthetic, that I've been devouring since I discovered it for myself. Aaron also as a great site filled with educational and media resources for teachers at
freeresources.wikispaces.com.
EDITORIAL:
- Recursivity of the Internet - What I've learned during my first year of podcasting.
- Bullying
- How do we prevent bullying?
- What role do schools play?
- What role do schools play with cyber bullying?
- Personal Cyber Ethics
- Responsible Social Networking
- Keeping some information personal.
- Treating public space like public space.
- Treating the web like "your front lawn"
- Teaching and Reteaching safe Internet Use.
OTHER LINKS:- The (sponsored) word on the street from the BBC: From the article. "Word-of-mouth marketing, the latest advertising boom in the US, is coming to Britain. Would you be prepared to slip a casual product endorsement into a cosy[sic] chat with friends?"
- MIT Letter from Car Talk: This is a funny letter a high school student to MIT.
- Pupils 'should penalise[sic] bullies' from the BBC: Schools in the UK are discussing new approaches to combat and prevent bullying in schools. There is not a lot action taking place because there are arguments over how to classify and report incidents.
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