Internet literacy for parents, teachers and young people Pandia (Mar 5)
The Council of Europe has created a handbook to help get teachers and parents familiar with technologies and issues surrounding use of the Web.
"The content is divided into 25 fact sheets on themes such as searching for information, spam, chat, games, creativity, privacy, security, social networking, Web 2.0 and becoming an active e-citizen. Each fact sheet contains a general introduction to the theme, ethical considerations, best practice examples and links to further information."
This version is the third edition
http://www.coe.int/t/dghl/standardsetting/internetliteracy/hbk_EN.asp
The Flash version is well crafted. It says "a guide for parents, teachers and young people", but it seems more directed to adults. It's reasonably up to date but there are remnants of older version such as usenet and newsgroups (although the resources the guide points to are good)
It is comprehensive touching on the range of tools, the uses, the dangers, and it refers to many excellent external resources. Teachers could easily use this as a base for developing a classroom Internet literacy course.
Posted by Gwen at March 7, 2009 02:56 PM