After last weeks CyberSafety workshop for parents, I wondered if the message was too overwhelming as there are indeed a lot of nasty and disturbing activities taking place online and in video games. I listened and thought of how important the word no is to helping young people stay safe until they can fully learn [...]
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We have policies at school about cell phones, iPods and even student own laptops. Students follow the policies as we have a great bunch of students. Sure, some students pull out a cell phone to call someone or other infraction throughout the day but for 90 – 95% of the students, it is in their [...]
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In September, I blogged about Swype and how the Techcrunch 50 might impact schools. Well, the impact has happened sort of in that ShapeWriter Pro ($9.99) or Free changes text input on most small digital devices. I had been using Writing Pad which was the first release of this software and found I got quite [...]
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