Your Connected Life: A Teen’s Guide to Life Online offers teen-tested tips and solutions for everything from balancing screen time with school work, managing relationships and reputation online, to using the Internet to find the best information on health, hobbies and homework. The Your Connected Life guide was made possible with support from Shaw Communications
In our work on digital citizenship with students, we need to keep our eyes on the bigger picture when it comes to our activity online. In this TED talk, Glenn Greenwald makes a strong case that privacy does matter, even if you feel that your behaviour online is so innocuous as not to attract attention.
Here's a great video that teachers are going to love, especially if they're Star Wars fans. It presents useful guidelines for anyone working with students and technology. Our own Julian Taylor gives the lowdown on how we all can protect ourselves on the Internet or as Yoda might say, "Careful you must be!" This is
Very interesting and scary video about how much of your life is not really private at all... http://youtu.be/F7pYHN9iC9I Thanks to Maureen Baron for passing this along. Julian
