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Tech-Savvy Is the New Street Smart: Balancing Protection and Awareness

Tech-Savvy Is the New Street Smart: Balancing Protection and Awareness

Beatriz Arnillas
Copyright: © 2019 |Pages: 20
ISBN13: 9781522592617|ISBN10: 152259261X|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781522592624|EISBN13: 9781522592631
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-9261-7.ch018
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Arnillas, Beatriz. "Tech-Savvy Is the New Street Smart: Balancing Protection and Awareness." Handbook of Research on Media Literacy Research and Applications Across Disciplines, edited by Melda N. Yildiz, et al., IGI Global, 2019, pp. 280-299. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-9261-7.ch018

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Arnillas, B. (2019). Tech-Savvy Is the New Street Smart: Balancing Protection and Awareness. In M. Yildiz, M. Fazal, M. Ahn, R. Feirsen, & S. Ozdemir (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Media Literacy Research and Applications Across Disciplines (pp. 280-299). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-9261-7.ch018

Chicago

Arnillas, Beatriz. "Tech-Savvy Is the New Street Smart: Balancing Protection and Awareness." In Handbook of Research on Media Literacy Research and Applications Across Disciplines, edited by Melda N. Yildiz, et al., 280-299. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2019. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-9261-7.ch018

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Abstract

In response to technology developments during the first decade of the century, K-12 schools in the USA began to design and develop a variety of blended learning initiatives. The hope was that technology could better address the challenges related to college and career readiness in a rapidly evolving world, and to close the performance gaps between low-income students and their more privileged peers. By 2012, large urban districts began to implement one-to-one device-to-student environments at scale. Districts and educational organizations alike became concerned with the balance between legislation to restrict uses of technology and data to inform learning and the need for digital citizenship competencies for educators and students alike. This chapter reviews recent efforts and resistance against excessive legislation which could create unintended results, including fewer opportunities for underprivileged groups, and to advocate in favor of the systemic inclusion of digital citizenship imbedded in already existing curriculum.

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