Before I start this post, I’m noticing on the TV that car holiday commercials go on longer past Christmas than ads for any other product…hmmm,
But to the point. This morning I was listening to a podcast talking about privacy settings in Facebook in light of last month’s mass reset debacle. As I thought about this, it occurred to me that this is exactly the kind of thing we need to be sharing with students. Instead of ignoring their life in social networks and pretending it doesn’t exist, we need to be encouraging of good habits and providing real guidance (not hysteria) about risks.
But how to do this? If I were a classroom teacher, I could talk to my classes, but as an administrator, I have more limited access to students. Much of this stuff doesn’t obviously fit into the curriculum of a specific subject, and though I know many of the teachers at my school talk about it, it isn’t organized and it doesn’t reach all the students.
But what if we produced a short weekly segment to be shown as part of the daily student telecast? I picture this as a blend of news, demonstrations of tools, and common sense security and privacy tips. I’d like to get a team of students to collaborate with me and to do most of the actual presentations.
These clips could then be posted on the school blog for parents to see and to encourage reasonable discussion and Q&A.
Is anyone else doing something like this? I would love your ideas and comments.