Counseling in the Digital World

Keeping our kids safe

Maine Counseling Association (MeCA)
Annual Conference 2011

I hope to have the keynote presentation posted soon.

Resources

•    Slide 3 Marc Prensky; Digital Natives/Digital Immigrants http://marcprensky.com
•    Slide 4 Social Media Count: http://www.personalizemedia.com/garys-social-media-count/
•    Slide 8 Pew Internet: http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Social-Media-and-Young-Adults.aspx
•    Slide 12: danah boyd Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out: Kids Living and Learning with New Media (John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning) (Hardcover) http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0262013363/apophenia-20
•    Slide 14: Educational Leadership, September 2009 Jason Ohler, Orchestrating the Media Collage http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational_leadership/mar09/vol66/num06/Orchestrating_the_Media_Collage.aspx
•    Slide 25: Digital Dossier http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79IYZVYIVLA
•    Slide 25: John Palfrey, Born Digital http://borndigitalbook.com/
•    Slide 29: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_citizen
•    Slide 30: Vicki Davis: The Digiteen Project (she will be at MaineEd 2010) http://k12onlineconference.org/?p=431
•    Slide 33: http://twitter.com, http://facebook.com. http://ning.com
•    Slide 37: http://tcs.cybertipline.com and  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4w4_Hrwh2XI
•    Slide 42: Facebook for Parents, YHS Digital Citizenship Day
•    Slide 45: Digital Citizenship in Schools http://www.amazon.com/Digital-Citizenship-Schools-Mike-Ribble/dp/1564842320/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1271078144&sr=8-1
•    Slide 46: NetCetera http://www.onguardonline.gov/topics/net-cetera.aspx
•    Slide 47: Common Sense Media http://commonsensemedia.org
•    Slide 53: http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2009/11/30/sociality_is_le.html

My digital citizenship links

Other Books

• Raising a Digital Child
• Socially Networked Classroom
• Safe Practices Online
• Education Leadership, March 2009
• Learning and Leading with Technology, March/April 2010 Navigate the Digital Rapids

Image: ‘Multimedia message http://www.flickr.com/photos/20224904@N00/2340982008

Digital Citizenship – Part 2, A Conversation

How does technology positively impact your:

• Profession/School
• Clients/Students
• Job

How does technology negatively impact your:

• Profession/School
• Clients/Students
• Job

What are you /your school doing to respond?

What do you want to learn more about?

• Training, kids just given computers
• Bullying and harassment in and out of school
• Is it a discipline issue?
• Digital Footprint
• appropriate use
• career information
• legal perspective
• millennial perspective – levels of control
• teachers/ appropriate use in classroom
• how do students learn?
• Boundaries for social media

Reporting Out

Group 1

Positive

• • Electronic communication great
  • Separate school and personal email
  • Blogs and Facebook pages used by colleges
  • Still connected to work when out of the office

Negative

• • How do students transition into the world of  work
  • Digital Footprints

Group 2

Positive

• • Easy to access information and research
  • Less expensive to use Skype to stay connected
  • Efficient use of time

Negative

• • Not everyone can understand or afford the internet
  • How quickly information can be spread

Strategies

• • Sharing information about staff at trainings

Group 3

Positive

• • Ease of email
  • Already knew “friends” before a college orientation

Negatives

• • Boundaries

Strategies

• • Two different Facebook accounts
  • Need a policy on social networking use

Group 4

Positive

• • More frequent contact with students/parents
  • Everything was typed/better organized
  • Researching potential professors

Negative

• • Amount of information (confidential) circulating
  • A lot of drama
  • Is it easier to cheat

Strategies

• • Have handouts for on “Technology Tips for Parents”
  • Classes/training for parents
  • students involved in the training.

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