Social Networking:
Defining Cultural Literacy
and Technological Literacy
#facebook #twitter #xanga #flicker
SOCIAL NETWORKS EXPLAINED #21st century Literacy Skills
Born after the year 2000? Digital Natives are K-12 kids are encouraged to extend a part of their IRL (In Real Life) aka meat space identity into the digital space aka cyberspace. The online world provides amazing platforms when it comes exploring alter egos and other identity-forming activities. It also provides the tools to explore each other. Key Take Away: In fact, for most Digital Natives, there is difference between their meat space, physical identity and their online cyberspace life, they are the same, it is their natural habitat. In 2010 all of us who are online aka: Digital Natives understand that to compete in the workplace, participate online, have a voice in government, influence the world, a digital identity can’t be treated as an add-on to life. It’s essential to everything, period.
So, What are your children doing on the net?
What are they putting up there?
- Privacy Online Is Dead
- PRIVACY Parents: Teach Your Children Well! The problems with web 2.0 and social networks EXAMPLE Bristol Palin, Levi Johnson, Govenor Sarah Palin
FACEBOOK PRIVACY
Do K-12 Students Understand that Facebook is Public?
NJ Principal Asks Parents To Ban Social Networking Says Students Should Be Cut Off From Facebook, Text Messaging
The Evolution of Privacy on Facebook timeline from 2005 - 2010
- Reclaim Privacy is an open-source browser-based privacy scanner that automatically inspects your Facebook privacy settings and denotes settings that are risky privacy-wise. Concerned Facebookers can drag the Scan for Privacy bookmarklet to their browser’s bookmarks toolbar, log in to Facebook and click to see which settings “might be unexpectedly public.”
Dead People on Facebook
The world’s biggest social network, knows a lot about its roughly 500 million members. Its software is quick to offer helpful nudges about things like imminent birthdays and friends you have not contacted in a while. But the company has had trouble automating the task of figuring out when one of its users has died. That can lead to some disturbing or just plain weird moments for Facebook users as the site keeps on shuffling a dead friend through its social algorithms. Facebook says it has been grappling with how to handle the ghosts in its machine but acknowledges that it has not found a good solution. Now, people over 65 are adopting Facebook at a faster pace than any other age group, with 6.5 million signing up in May alone, three times as many as in May 2009, according to the research firm comScore. People over 65, of course, also have the country’s highest mortality rate, so the problem is only going to get worse. 2010
There is something wrong with Facebook or any other technology when the terms of the bargain is to allow websites to swap your personal information for convenient access to their sites - with the companies that operate the networks - collecting ever more information about their users. That information can and will be sold to marketers. When you give up that data, you’re giving it up forever. The value they give us is negligible in the scale of what they are doing, and what we are giving up is all of our privacy. Facebook is a centralized social network used for spying. Ilya Zhitomirskiy, Dan Grippi, Max Salzberg, and Raphael Sofaer decided to build a social network that wouldn’t force people to surrender their privacy to a big business. They have called their project Diaspora* and intend to distribute the software free, and to make the code openly available so that other programmers can build on it. To manage your privacy on Facebook, you will need to navigate through 50 settings with more than 170 options. Facebook says it wants to offer precise controls for sharing on the Internet. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/05/12/business/facebook-privacy.html
There is nothing wrong with MySpace or any other technology.
The problem is in ourselves, the adults of this nation. We have failed to see we are roadkill, unless we wake up and use our expertise to educate our children instead of punishing them by throwing them out of our schools and censor them and stifle them and filter them. Participatory cultures involve being a part of online communities, producing digital media, problem-solving collaboratively, and shaping the public discussion (via blogs, podcasts, etc.). And access to these is becoming key to young people's ability to succeed. They will not be stifled, filtered, censored and we (adults) don't get that.It turns out that one child's educational tool is another child's distraction -- particularly when bored. Those distractions have led to a mini-war on laptops in the classroom. At the University of Colorado at Boulder, professor Diane Sieber also knew her students weren't all paying attention in class. She carried out a very unscientific study simply by comparing the grades of students who used laptops in class with those of the students who didn't. According to the Chronicle of Higher Education, Sieber privately informed the students after their first exam that they scored 11 percent lower than their counterparts without laptops.
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But they don't take pencils or pens away when children are bored and they doodle with pencils.
Internet: Learn About Twitter social network Tools
- MUSIC: HOW TO USE TWITTER TO HELP BUILD YOUR AUDIENCE
- Music: Music Business Success Stories Social Music Revolution
K-12 Teacher Trainers - Twitter 24/7 Professional Development
Institutional Brand - digital footprint -
Authentic Rich Learning Environments - It's about Networking. We now have education policy makers making policies about technology with a limited understanding of how it fits in education as a tool for learning, or even how it works, and viewing it as more of a hindrance than a help. It would be so much easier if Technology went away and we could get back to the “Three R’s”, good ole’ read’n, rite’n, and rithmetic.
Chris Lehman speech about Schools Need to Change. Principal of the Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia, PA.
The Social Network - Defining Cultural Literacy and Technological Literacy
DefineCultural Literacy and Technological Literacy
Social network sites are the Internet generation's equivalent of the town hall, the school cafeteria, or the workplace water cooler - the place where people come together to exchange both ideas and idle gossip.
Second Life, MySpace, Flickr and all the other web 2.0 aren't places to go, but things to do, and a way to collaborate and express yourself. If you can get millions of users generating content, millions of users organizing that content, tens of thousands of users distributing that across the Internet, and thousands of people not on the payroll actually building it you've got a web 2.0 biz you can sell for millions of dollars.
We need e-school -- not b-school. Skills in demand when it comes to the job.
We need to teach entrepreneurial skills not business manager skills.
Financial Literacy - NetworthIQ, allows people to record their net worths and display the ups and downs for anyone to view. Most people who share their data do so anonymously, but Kincer posts a link to his personal Web site, where he uses his real name. Kincer especially liked that the site allowed him to compare himself with others. It appealed to the Mega Man player in him. “NetworthIQ is kind of a game,” he said. “Can I get ahead of everyone? Can I be up there with the big shots?” Net worth is the number you get when you subtract what you owe from what you own. You start with things like cash on hand, retirement savings and home equity and subtract your mortgage, as well as credit-card, student-loan and other debts. Net worth paints a bigger picture than income; it rewards the saver and reveals the drain that big borrowers put on their finances. And it vividly reminds people who think only in terms of monthly payments that their debts may be with them for a good long while.
There is no
absolute definition of literacy
Educational theorist E.D. Hirsch, Jr. said literate people in every society and every culture share a body of knowledge that enables them to communicate with each other and make sense of the world around them. The kinds of things a literate person knows will vary from society to society and from era to era; so there is no absolute definition of literacy. In the early twenty-first century, however, cultural literacy must have a large technological component.
Technological literacy is a much richer concept than computer literacy. Technological literacy can be thought of a comprising three interrelated dimensions that help describe the characteristics of a technologically literate person who has knowledge of technology and is capable of using it effectively to accomplish various tasks. He or she can think critically about technological issues and acts accordingly.
Information-seeking process figures into the final evaluation of content people encounter. Using unique data about how a diverse group of young adults looks for and evaluates Web content, our paper makes contributions to existing literature by highlighting factors beyond site features in how users assess credibility. We find that the process by which users arrive at a site is an important component of how they judge the final destination. In particular, search context, branding and routines, and a reliance on those in one’s networks play important roles in online information-seeking and evaluation. We also discuss that users differ considerably in their skills when it comes to judging online content credibility. Full Text: PDF
Keywords: Credibility, Internet, Users, Web, Branding, Trust, Search, Information-Seeking, Media Literacy
Known brands were essential signifiers of quality for respondents, and seem to serve as an
important part of users’ daily information-gathering routines. However, not all name brands were trusted equally. Web sites from educational organizations and government entities were often trusted more than the average commercial site. We find evidence of users’ trust in search engines with respect to the credibility of information they find when using these services. To complete many of the assigned tasks, students often turned to a particular search engine as their first step. When using a search engine, many students clicked on the first search result. Over a quarter of respondents mentioned that they chose a Web site because the search engine had returned that site as the first result suggesting considerable trust in these services. In some cases, the respondent regarded the search engine as the relevant entity for which to evaluate trustworthiness, rather than the Web site that contained the information. Students often did not investigate those results with regard to who authored the information they found through searching and ended up using to complete the tasks at hand. Going to a specific search engine like Google or Yahoo! was regularly the first step in the information-seeking process and students made this clear in the way they referred to the action of using such a service.
U.S. Students Need 21st Century Skills to Compete in a Global Economy Oct. 10, 2007
A new, nationwide poll of registered voters reveals that Americans are deeply concerned that the United States is not preparing young people with the skills they need to compete in the global economy. An overwhelming 80 percent of voters say that the kind of skills students need to learn to be prepared for the jobs of the 21st century is different from what they needed 20 years ago. Yet a majority of Americans say that schools need to do a better job of keeping up with changing educational needs. The national poll was conducted by Public Opinion Strategies and Peter D. Hart Research Associates on behalf of the Partnership for 21stCentury Skills.
- Eighty-eight percent of voters say they believe that schools can and should incorporate 21st century skills such as critical thinking and problem-solving skills, computer and technology skills, and communication and self-direction skills into their curriculum.
- Sixty-six percent of voters say they believe that students need more than just the basics of reading, writing and math; schools alsoneed to incorporate a broader range of skills.
- Fifty-three percent say they believe schools should place an equal emphasis on 21st century skills and basic skills.
What every administrator, Policy Maker and Parent should know:
NSBA Social Network Report.pdf
MIT professor and clinical psychologist Sherry Turkle thinks "the impact of social networking on individual users and society in further accentuating "the tethered self" a person who understands himself and his feelings more in relation to others." It seems to be part of a larger trend in media culture for people not to know what they think until they get a sense of what everyone else think." "Tethered adolescents are given a cellphone by their parents. In return, they are expected to answer their parents' calls. On the one hand, this arrangement gives the adolescent new freedoms. On the other, the adolescent doe not have the experience of being alone, of having only him or herself to count on: there is always a parent on speed dial. This provides comfort in a dangerous world, yet there is a price to pay in the development of autonomy. There used to be a moment in the life of an urban child, usually between the ages of 12 and 14, when there was a first time to navigate the city alone. It was a rite of passage that communicated, 'You are on your own and responsible.' Tethering via a cellphone buffers this moment; tethered children think differently about themselves. They are not quite alone." And time alone to digest, reflect, and form our own views - not just in relation to how our friends or fellow IM-ers or social networkers think is a good thing.
Parents, teachers, and administrators who are concerned about what their kids are doing out of the house should also know what their kids are doing online. The 21st century is an online world and everyone needs 21st century skills.
Students think they are anonymous - wrong. They don't realize how they can be traced online. The Secret Service can identify the IP of your school from the message and if your kid even goes to that school. Then will go to the school and using the time stamp on the message and firewall logs, can identify the exact computer from which it came and the student who was logged in at the time.
Social Media's Power
From 21 Century skills learned and practiced from K-16
these are the skills in demand when it comes to the job.
Definition of 21st Century Literacy:
3 videos on managing info overload: Infotention http://bit.ly/5k9wMS - http://bit.ly/89uI0R - http://bit.ly/bw8yyI
The term "social media" first began to coalesce around 2003 to describe the impact of personal media and opinion through the emergence of low-cost publishing platforms. It was a term we adopted. We are rapidly moving to a post-social media world, where all media is social, and brands and businesses recognize its power to influence the entire enterprise.
Social media's power is profound and can strongly impact a wide range of use cases within brands, including risk management, media, product life cycle management, customer care, HR, market research, and innovation.
There is a clear disconnect between the common association of the term "social media" with what it can actually do. Social Media is adopted as core to corporate strategy and not just another marketing channel. Social media is driving greater collaboration and forcing organizations to reexamine their business processes so they can be agile enough to react to the real-time social intelligence being infused into the organization.
The primary value of social media doesn't come from the tactics or the technologies, many of which are transitory, but from infusing its value across the enterprise to drive real and sustainable business advantage. And the examples of its power are tangible.
HP, for example, said that it saved $10 million in call center costs by infusing social listening into customer service. Procter & Gamble reported that nearly half of its innovation is coming from outside the company through forms of social engagement, like its InnoCentive initiative. IBM is infusing ongoing real-time social intelligence across the organization for myriad use cases. This is about business redesign.
It is also about the application of the social sciences. In our view, social media is about the evolution of human communication.
Cultural anthropology, sociology, psychology, and linguistics matter in marketing again. Concepts like "social framing," whereby individuals often perceive issues through the prism of their friends, are starting to help us rethink the way we communicate and the ways people gather, act, and synthesize information. Rethinking social organization through social media is beginning to have a transformative impact on governments and businesses.
TOOLS
- Tools that a parent needs to supervise and keep children and teenagers safe on the internet.
- SAFE SCHOOLS AND THE CyberBully - What about those bystanders who just stand there and watch?
- Parents need to know how to Keep Your Child Safe
Myspace Police Surveillance officers consider MySpace one of their best resources. Learn *how* police they use MySpace in investigations. Start with a name or an event or an area. Find a person connected to it and then drill down, through friends and friends of friends, visiting their sites, riffling through their pictures, reading the correspondence they display publicly, and making printouts of anything incriminating, find out where the big bashes will be. Even when youngsters use aliases, their face can still turn up in someone else's photo album of raunchy parties captured in embarrassing or illegal moments. - Parents need to understand how to prevent the CyberBully from bothering their child.
FULL TRANSCRIPT of information for parents, legislators and press who are concerned about the dangers of MySpace.
Tell students that it's about YOU wanting to "BRAND" YOURSELF on the Internet. You are more complex than a single label and it takes time to get to know people's complexities. Don't give people an excuse to think of you in a single dimensional way. Most Importantly, whatever you put up there will get cached by search engines forever and ever - do you really want that up there for ever and ever?
Mr Rubert Murdoch, 74 appointed 33-year-old Jeremy Philips to run News Corp's internet strategy and armed him with a $1bn fund to buy more sites like myspace.com - like YouTube.com, Friendster, Linkedin, revver.com and Facebook.com, Tagged.com . Murdock hires lawyer Parry Aftab (a friend of Educational CyberPlayGround RingLeader Art Wolinsky) to clean up the myspace.com business from sexual predators who like teenagers. Then every news program does the expected sensational good for ratings show on molested teenagers. Now MySpace.com has hired Hemanshu Nigam to be its first chief security officer. Nigam, currently the director of consumer security outreach and child safe computing at Microsoft, will oversee safety, education, privacy and law enforcement affairs because of all the bad press on the issues of safety and privacy for the 68 million teenage members. - "Teens are blogging everyday, reaching an audience of millions," ... the tools they need to blog legally, and understand how to defend their rights."
- EFF's "Legal Guide for Bloggers" is a collection of frequently asked questions (FAQs) designed to educate bloggers about their legal rights in a number of areas, including libel law, copyright law, and political advocacy. The guide will help bloggers understand the basics about the laws that affect them so they can better protect and defend their rights. Schools can respond to off-campus harmful speech in a very limited way based on the Tinker Standard which says that schools can only punish the student with formal discipline in cases where the school can show (reasonable proof) that the what got posted (off-campus speech) will have a substantial and material disruption with the work of the school or the safety and security of students.
LAW
- Harriton High School Used Apple Laptop Webcams To SPY On Students --
At Home Dick and Jane Primer for School Administrator Dummies and the Apple Classrooms of Tomorrow Nightmare - Weblogs - AT ISSUE Student Blogs, School Cracks Down
- THE LAW LOTS OF REAL EXAMPLES LIKE
Find Blogs used to Bully Kids and
11/28/05, - Here's kind of a funny, kind of spooky off-topic myspace.com anecdote - since you mentioned your 14 year old likes the site. I found my husband's cousin's profile there the other night. She's 16 and her mother is verging on a nervous breakdown trying to keep up with her. The girl had posted pictures of herself in her panties, bragged about smoking, sex, partying and driving, doing drugs - on and on. It was really easy to gather a bunch of detailed information about her, her friends, where they worked, where they hang out. A real jackpot for any pervert that would be on the lookout. At the end of one of her explicit blog entries, I posted a simple comment: "Fancy finding you here... See you at Christmas, doll." - and signed our names. The next day, the racy pics were gone, as were all the blog entries and other silliness. I can't wait for Christmas now - muahahahahaha. - Update on busted teenage cousin story:
The dear girl yanked her blog and the raciest of the pictures from the page after realizing I had seen it. Her mom went looking for the page as well and found it - after the edit job. Two days later most of her old content was back up there. Her mom revisited the site, saw all that garbage and went into orbit. I'm guessing the dust is still settling at their place and that the girl's car is being sold out from under her because she's going to be grounded for a very long time. I just don't think it has ever occurred toher or her friends how vulnerable these sites make them when they include a lot of personal information about themselves. I see kid's profiles there all the time - even though you're supposed to be 18 to create an account. ~ Laurie - Meet some of the Folks responsible for creating social software web 2.o stuff like Alex Bosworth, designer of SWiK working of social software like zoka and Bram Cohen author of Bittorrent and CodeVille.
WEB 2.0 TOOLS
- TECHNOLOGY TOOLS FOR K12
- How and why do you Integrate Technology into the Classroom?
- FLICKER - social networking with tags but it's all about photographs that are public for all to see whose purpose is that people with similiar interests can connect. Like Marissa Mayr of Google leading to Global X
- MySpace Codes - Here is a website offering kids the code needed to hide information .
MySpace codes to help you tweak your myspace profile
If the codes messes up your profile, use "SAFE MODE" to edit / remove the code
LIST OF 5 DOZEN SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES
- BlogSafer Wiki
Anonymous Blogging Guides in English, Arabic, Chinese and Persian.
BlogSafer Contains a Series of Guides on How to Blog Under Difficult Conditions in Countries That Discourage Free Speech - outlines steps a blogger in a repressive regime can take, and tools to use, to avoid identification and arrest. These range from common sense actions such as not providing identifying details on a blog to the technical, such as the use of proxy servers.
"A repressive regime trying to still free speech first goes after and shuts down independent print and broadcast media," said Curt Hopkins, project director of Spirit of America's Anonymous Blogging Campaign. "Once that is done, it turns its attentions to online news sites. As these outlets disappear, dissent migrates to blogs, which are increasing geometrically in number and are simple to set up and operate." In the past several years at least 30 people have been arrested, many of whom have been tortured, for criticizing their governments. This trend is likely to increase in the coming year. SNIP - xanga.com
- myspace.com
- livejournal
- my diary
- open diary
- diaryland
- YouTube.com, Google Video, iFilm.com, AddictingClips.com, stumbleupon.com
- faceparty.com
- esnips.com - must be 13 get 1 gig upload anything
- Facebook publicly opened registration beyond the world of students for the first time (!) to people with select corporate email accounts. Facebook's corporate foray will make college career counselors uneasy that unscrupulous employers might use the site to dig for dirt on students who have applied for jobs. Read the FaceBook Blog
- Seeking teens, marketers take risks by emulating MySpace
- Social Maps http://platial.com/splash with tags
Watch the video hear the NPR story about it at - Social Music Revolution Last.fm - then submit listening data to it
- Over come Censorship with text messages
social network | networking diary | online private journal | online photo albums | myspace facebook flicker | social software networking Tools
Privacy and Security
What happens at Facebook should stay at Facebook.
What do Facebook, the CIA and your magazine subscription list have in
common? Maybe more than you think . . . Please see this first
Department Of Defense going after social network sites.
New Scientist Magazine has discovered that Pentagon's National Security Agency, which specialises in eavesdropping and code-breaking, is funding research into the mass harvesting of the information that people post about themselves on social networks. And it could harness advances in internet technology - specifically the forthcoming "semantic web" championed by the web standards organisation W3C - to combine data from social networking websites with details such as banking, retail and property records, allowing the NSA to build extensive, all-embracing personal profiles of individuals. See Security and PrivacyHate in Online Networking
Enemybook, Snubster allow Facebook users to link up with their nemeses. Kevin Matulef, who is doing a doctoral thesis on algorithms at MIT, designed Enemybook, a software application that lets people list enemies below friends on their personal Facebook page. He describes the program as "an antisocial utility that disconnects you to the so-called friends around you." Enemybook is one of several new online applications developed by computer-savvy twentysomethings who say they are tired of bogus online friendships. In a dig at the notion of virtual networking, they hope to encourage people to undermine, or at least mock, the online social communities sites such as Facebook were designed to create.
Find MySpace's Tips for Parents
Social Risks: "disinhibition" psychologists' term for "the many ways people behave with less restraint in cyberspace. It's what explains bullying, harassing, or just rude behavior online.
Principal sues ex-students over MySpace profiles 2007
No safety czars on Stickam.com, a continuous self-produced reality TV show starring [users] themselves which is building a business by showing unfiltered live broadcasts from Web cameras and hosts live video chat for users. There are also video-hosting sites without a lot of rules. Besides Paris-based DailyMotion.com there is the London-based LiveLeak, which "has positioned itself as a source for reality-based fare like footage of Iraq battle scenes and grisly accidents."
Taxonomy, FOLKSONOMY and TAGS
Thomas Vander Wal, the information architect credited with coining the term "FOLKSONOMY".
Normal ordinary humans = FOLK
SEE FOLKMUSIC
Scientific Classification = TAXONOMY
SEE Taxonomy Community of Practice (TaxoCOP)
FOLKSONOMY - According to various speakers at Online, folksonomies and tagging are becoming increasingly important. Web 2.0 presents exciting opportunities for networked information of the future - see The Hive Mind . "Many recently developed concepts and technologies are seen as contributing to Web 2.0, including weblogs, wikis, podcasts, rss feeds and other forms of many to many publishing; social software, web APIs, web standards, online web services, AJAX, and others."). See popular tags used for music
Tags give you subject related Metadata
Tags add value to the giant piles of data that are already out there. What are tags? Thousands of members use tags to give some contextual meaning to more than 3.5 million pictures that might otherwise get lost in the shuffle. You can give your photos a "tag", which is like a keyword or category label. Tags help you find photos which have something in common. Let folks loose categorizing their own stuff on their own terms.
Del.icio.us - is a social bookmarks manager using Tags are one-word descriptors that you can assign to any bookmark. Tags can't contain quotation marks or whitespace, but are otherwise unrestricted. You can assign as many tags to a bookmark as you like, and rename, delete, add or merge tags together. Joshua Schachter began del.icio.us, a way for people to store and share their favorite Web-browsing bookmarks online. Instead of organizing them himself, or even creating a standard taxonomy of categories, Schachter used something called user tagging people simply labeled the bookmarks by any name they wanted, and eventually the group as a whole effectively voted on them by either adopting those tags themselves or rejecting them.
Tag Defintion - example of system:media:audio
http://del.icio.us/tag/system:media:audio
http://del.icio.us/rss/tag/your+tags
system:something:specific taxonomy
Furl, MetaFilter and the blog index Technorati are generally considered folksonomy trailblazers. Other ways businesses can get value out of Twitter is competitive research, lead generation and media relations. You can research competitor accounts and their followers. You can sometimes identify which followers are their customers and prospects and try to engage with them yourself, when appropriate. Be careful not to push an advertisement on them too soon.Tweetdeck can be used to search on terms that are relevant for the business and identified potential leads which they pass to sales.
From a PR perspective, you can follow and try to engage members of the media, bloggers, and other subject matter experts who write about your industry. Compliment them on articles they write, pitch them new ideas to write about. If you can build a relationship, maybe they will write about you.
PODCASTING
PODCAST - A podcast is a radio show that listeners subscribe to online. Podcasts are a unique combination of subscription and publication.
AUDIO BLOG |
Please record your American Playground Poetry, the folk songs, jump rope chants, kiddy rhymes, circle games, play parties, call and response songs, | GET SMART -- using your ipod, shoe phone, or computer.  |
VIDEOBLOG / VLOGS Video blogging Broadcasting Software
RSS THERE IS NOTHING SIMPLE ABOUT RSS IT IS DIFFICULT. RSS: podcasts are syndicated, meaning listeners just have to find them once, and receive them every time a broadcast is issued.
SMART MOBS A new form of social coordination made possible by the usage of modern technology, in particular the Internet and wireless devices.
WIKI "the simplest online database that could possibly work."