Mentoring+Digital+Kids

= Mentoring Digital Kids = Kevin Honeycut

You must be involved in everything digital your child does. Kids think that they are bulletproof.

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Brain Research

 * 1) Downshifting
 * 2) when you are scared or surviving - you can not learn
 * 3) A tale of two kinds of minds
 * 4) Stand alone brains
 * 5) Networked brains

Our students are building a life-long "googleable" life

 * 1) Train them at an early age about what is appropriate
 * 2) Set up accounts together
 * 3) No secret life
 * 4) Don't let them have "secret life" and then take everything away
 * 5) Web 2.0 is participatory (it's push-pull technology - TV is push)
 * 6) We have to show them to think first
 * 7) Show them that "yesterday's web" is still there
 * 8) Ask kids "how many of you have something online that would embarrass you" in front of your mom? Grandmom? Preacher?

Websites of Interest

 * Freemosquitoringtones.com
 * http//plurk.com - social networking
 * http://www.classroom20.com/ classroom 2.0 - lesson plans & collaborating for educators
 * artsnacks.org
 * cafepress.org
 * lulu.com be published on-line
 * Google Docs - co write books on-line
 * Google Sketchup: free software that lets you design anything
 * kevinhoneycut.org

Put in online

 * connect with kids
 * put it online
 * Add technology
 * Publish! Be inventive but teach kids that what they do now WILL affect them later. (college athletics example)