12-14

Present: Chai, Trish, Lara, Dan, Deb, Dee, Tedd, Doug, Deb P., Bruce
 * 12-14 CRT Meeting**

1. Cyberbullying: -Discussed NYT article emailed by Doug, re: how parents are dealing with cyberbullying, and how intervention is not always as simple as we would hope: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/ 12/05/us/05bully.html

2. Tedd/Dee: developing Case MS scope/sequence curriculum re: digital ethics and citizenship"'
 * Supervisors, Tedd/Dee examining curricula, identifying key issues to incorporate in Gr. 6-8 advisory classes and best grade levels to target these issues.
 * Middle School Technology Ethics Program Moodle Page: []
 * Digital Citizenship
 * Searching, Researching, and Evaluation
 * Safety, Security, and Well-Being
 * Trying to integrate material naturally into normal activities. Goal: for students to make wise choices. Important for adults to help set boundaries.
 * Partnering w/ parents to help: enabling parental controls if necessary, on case-by-case basis in conjunction w/ parents, students, supervisors (e.g. monitoring logs, turning off Internet access at particular times)
 * Target deadline for program: next year.
 * Maybe developing Brown Bag presentations for parent education.
 * Gr. 7 Teams: parent/student develop agreements in re: tech use.
 * Working on developing grade-level appropriate parent agreements.
 * Transitioning Gr. 8 to less restrictive Gr. 9 environment.
 * Understanding safety/security issues, the implication of digital footprint, e.g. even if a photo gets taken down, someone can repost and the information gets out of personal control.

3. Academy:
 * Deb P: In library, policy is that kids need to learn to manage activities. E.g. kids are playing games on laptops, but doesn't police unless there's noise/disruption.
 * Doug: talking in Advisory, presenting strategies for self-monitoring: e.g. turning off Airport, setting self up in quiet studying place.
 * Dan: reported student who uses "locking tool" to prevent him from being distraction.
 * Maybe incorporate in 9th Guide, ICP, extd. Advisory-9, Gr. 9 assemblies.
 * UHM-developed WISE curriculum is a separate class @ UH Lab; didn't work when they attempted to integrate it into subj-area curricula.
 * Doug: teaching kids to auto-forward from Punahou emails, as sometimes the kids don't check Punahou emails.