Tuesday, November 14, 2006

Nancy E. Willard Audio Interview on Internet Safety

Over the last several months, I've watched Nancy's consistent, warning voice on the educational technology email lists. I'm sure this is not an easy role--at a time when the read-write web is exciting many educators, and they are looking to to find creative ways to take advantage in school of technologies that have become so engaging to our youth outside of school , Nancy keeps talking about the hard topics of safe internet use, filtering, online predators, disinhibition, and cyberbullying.

Arranging an interview time with Nancy was difficult--she is the parent of three children, and working on finishing two books--but we finally caught up last week. I was particularly interested in her concerns about how the dangers of online sexual predation are taught, which she says are often based on the myth that the youth who go to meet an online predator are unaware of what is actually going to take place. Nancy is also appropriately harsh on the marketing of sexuality to young women, and she agreed with my concerns (we both have thirteen-year-old daughters) about how the movies and media have really promoted aggressive sexuality by young women in the last decade. And she discusses cyber-bullying, which I hadn't really had any direct experience with, but which she describes as very real and very serious.

My wife generally has not had a great deal of interest in my interview series (c'mon, isn't everyone excited about educational technology?), but she listened to this interview from start to finish. Our thanks to Nancy for caring.

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5 comments:

  1. Hi Steve --- Just wanted to leave a quick note to thank you for all of your work on this interview series. It's definitely influenced my thinking over the past months. This interview of Nancy Willard is perfect timing as I am in the process of developing resources for my school community on Internet Safety. We webcast all of the sessions of a recent conference, and this was my best Internet Safety before your interview: Students Online: Realities, Issues and Solutions: http://www.nycist.net/d/node/35.

    Nancy is definitely spot on and I appreciate her analysis of a complex topic.

    Thanks again for your great podcasts!

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  2. Hi Steve --- Just wanted to leave a quick note to thank you for all of your work on this interview series. It's definitely influenced my thinking over the past months. This interview of Nancy Willard is perfect timing as I am in the process of developing resources for my school community on Internet Safety. We webcast all of the sessions of a recent conference, and this was my best Internet Safety before your interview: Students Online: Realities, Issues and Solutions: http://www.nycist.net/d/node/35.

    Nancy is definitely spot on and I appreciate her analysis of a complex topic.

    Thanks again for your great podcasts!

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  3. Anonymous10:36 AM

    Hi Steve,

    Thank you for the great interview of Nancy Willard, and to both of you for having allowed me to quote part of in in the Noi Media podcast (now online, see Nancy Willard intervistata da Steve Hargadon: la sicurezza online).

    Best

    Claude

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  4. Hello Steve -

    I really valued your interview with Nancy Willard. As part of my Graduate work, I have been researching the technology abuses that are affecting the high school curriculum. Ms. Williard's insight and research in the areas of technologies and safety, legal , and ethical issues related to the use of Internet in schools provided me with a world of information to start a systemic change proposal for my curriculum.

    Thanks for a great interview that I can share with my colleagues and peers.

    JWalesyn

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  5. I'm glad this interview has been popular. I have to say, I really like hearing Nancy's clear "voice" on this and other topics.

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