TL2014 – Resources you may find useful… 11/03/2011
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Convert YouTube video to MP3 files.
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Why Parents Help Children Violate Facebook’s 13+ Rule
“While there is merit to thinking about how to strengthen parent permission structures, focusing on this obscures the issues that COPPA is intended to address: data privacy and online safety. COPPA predates the rise of social media. Its architects never imagined a world where people would share massive quantities of data as a central part of participation. It no longer makes sense to focus on how data are collected; we must instead question how those data are used. Furthermore, while children may be an especially vulnerable population, they are not the only vulnerable population. Most adults have little sense of how their data are being stored, shared, and sold.”
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Cellphones: Why Not Use Them to Teach? – SchoolBook
“Twenty-first century educators, administrators, parents, and policy makers need to move from viewing the high-tech tools of our world as distractions to incorporating them into learning. “