Safe Keeping Blog

Cutting edge ideas. Leading experts. Massive showroom. The list could continue—making it easy to see why nearly 20,000 enthusiastic ed tech professionals and corporate representatives (from 60 countries!) are preparing to attend ISTE’s annual five day conference and exposition in Philadelphia.

If you’re one of the thousands of attendees, find Marsali Hacock, CEO and president of iKeepSafe, Robyn Trevvaud, founder of CyberSafe Kids and iKeepSafe’s director of global education, and David Wright, e-safety consultant from SouthWest Grid for Learning, while you are there. Their learning session, “Generation Safe: New Media Mentor for Global Digital Citizenship,” addresses the concerns voiced from administrators around the globe: that technology has created an ever-changing minefield putting their schools and students at risk of unnecessary legal and civil action.

Considering that Marsali, Robyn, and David represent the U.S, Australia, and the U.K, it’s clear to see how they can easily relate to different communities and countries, and why they’re well suited to address these global concerns.

By attending, you’ll get a hands-on opportunity to experience Generation Safe™—a unique system of interactive online tools designed to integrate digital technology into existing whole school initiatives. It will build your confidence and competence in the digital environment. And it will teach you how to develop your offline team to be able to handle anything online—promoting ethical, responsible and resilient cyber citizens.

This session (hosted in Philadelphia with the other ISTE 2011 sessions) is tomorrow in the PACC Broad St Atrium, Table 11, from 7-8:30 pm.

Also, on Wednesday from 10:15-11:15am in the PACC building, Room 126A Marsali will join Frank Gallagher (from Cable in the Classroom), Linda Burch, and Douglas Levin on a panel discussing “Digital Citizenship for Administrators.” Be sure to attend and learn what digital citizenship is, what it means to administrators, and how it can help schools deal with issues caused by digital technologies.

Emily Ensign is a regular blogger for the Internet Keep Safe Coalition, an organization that gives parents, educators, and policymakers the information and tools that empower them to teach children the safe and healthy use of technology and the Internet.