Intro to Information Literacy CBEA

I'm really just testing a new interface, but why not include some real content?

Wesley Fryer blogs at Moving at the Speed of Creativity. Very much in touch with the front edge of teaching, learning, technology and information. He writes about our students being in the middle of the emerging "digital social network" (dsn) without any real guidance:

Even when mudslinging-ads are pulled by their sponsors, the content lives on via YouTube. An example is this video slinging mud at Tennessee incumbent Senator Harold Ford.This again highlights the lesson some MySpace and Facebook users havelearned– that they are writing their PERMANENT RECORD online. Oncesomething has been posted to the Internet, it may be there forever.This was also dramatized in a 10 pm news story I saw tonight aboutMcKinney North High School students (north of Dallas) who took nudepictures of themselves on a cell phone and sent them to the boyfriendof one of the girls. Now, not surprisingly, the photos have shown up onthe Internet, and no one can take them all offline. The parents were ontelevision, mad at school officials, but this is not the school’sfault: The students in this case made some bad choices and are nowfacing the consequences. Despite increasingly common news articles likethese, my perception is that most schools are not adequately addressingInternet safety, digital citizenship, and safe digital socialnetworking with students, parents, teachers and administrators. Ittakes a village to raise kids, and unfortunately not enough of ourcommunity villagers are talking about these issues and figuring outways to effectively address them.

So who's to instruct? And when? Or we just let it happen?

Read the full Fryer entry at: YouTube, Internet Games and Electoral Politics