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Cowie, Helen; Colliety, Pat – Pastoral Care in Education, 2010
This paper explores the phenomenon of cyberbullying. The argument here is that, although there is a case for sanctions, schools also have a critical role to play in preventing and reducing cyberbullying through a process of awareness-raising, the education of the emotions and active participation of children and young people themselves.
Descriptors: Sanctions, Bullying, Computer Mediated Communication, Prevention
Workman, Thomas A. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2008
There is no doubt that as technology continues to change, the generation of students will change also. The best preparation, then, is to train one's own mind to think digitally so that one can best create policies, programs, and interactions that enable a student to connect the two worlds in ways that are productive, satisfying, and meaningful.…
Descriptors: Science and Society, Internet, College Students, Subcultures
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Dron, Jon – Educational Technology & Society, 2007
Social software, such as blogs, wikis, tagging systems and collaborative filters, treats the group as a first-class object within the system. Drawing from theories of transactional distance and control, this paper proposes a model of e-learning that extends traditional concepts of learner-teacher-content interactions to include these emergent…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Group Dynamics, Electronic Learning, Web Sites
Kirby, Elizabeth; Kallio, Brenda – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2007
The Internet has had a profound effect on education and social interaction patterns. Educators struggle to stay abreast of technological advances and navigate the maze of positive and negative aspects of students using the Internet. A new use for the Internet is the relatively recent phenomenon called blogging. Blogging is a widely used means of…
Descriptors: Student Journals, Web Sites, Interpersonal Relationship, Interaction