Education : eSafety Kids new measures & tools : parents & teachers !

 

Teen & social media

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Parents are now able to have images of their children removed from  Google search results, said to company.

Google wants to make it easier for kids and teenagers to remove photos of themselves from its search platform.

It came as Google announced a range of changes to child-safety measures across several of its products.

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It will also remove "overly commercial content" from the children's version of YouTube and change what kind of adverts can be targeted at under-18s.

Several major technology companies have introduced such measures under scrutiny from governments and safety advocates.

Kids on Instagram

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"We want to strike the right balance of giving young people all the things they love about Instagram while also keeping them safe."

Instagram blog

Instagram has made new under-16s' accounts private by default, so only approved followers can see post and 'Like" or comment as it battles opposition to plans to introduce a children's version of the app.

"Protecting young people on Instagram is so important to us. Some updates on this work: restricting DMs between teens and adults they don't follow, encouraging teens to make their accounts private, and prompting them to be careful in DMs."

Adam Mosseri, head of Instagram

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And in a separate post to the YouTube blog, the company YouTube announced additional protections for people under 18 on YouTube and YouTube Kids.

"Younger people use YouTube every day to discover new interests, learn about the world, and connect with the world through online video. But it's essential that as they do, they have the options and safeguards to create the experience that's right for them."

YouTube

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Digital footprint:

YouTube will also turn off "autoplay" as the default setting, for children, in both the Kids and mainstream apps, to prevent unsuitable videos playing automatically.

Allowing users to remove image-search results of children would afford "more control over their digital footprint"

"Of course, removing an image from search doesn't remove it from the web but we believe this change will help give young people more control of their images online," 

Google

Teens on social media

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The other changes include:

• stopping ad targeting based on children's age, gender or interests
• preventing "age sensitive" types of adverts being shown to younger users
• changing the default mode for uploaded videos, for children, to "the most private option"
• turning adult-filtering mode Safe Search on for minors
• preventing young people from using Location History, the feature that tracks and logs a phone's location constantly
• new parental advice on the Google Play app store

credits: Google Blog

https://blog.google/technology/families/

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https://blog.google/technology/families/

Family link:

Google will also be rolling out features from Family Link to users under 18, as well. Family Link is a Google service which allows parents of children under 13, who cannot yet have their own Google accounts, to monitor their usage.

Child Focus:

One of the key missions of Child Focus is prevention. This clip was made as an e-safety awareness campaign for children between 4 and 8 years some years ago. 

It's being aired on Belgian kids channels and distributed in other European countries. Note: Script & animation by CC.

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Education: 

Protecting young people is very important to them. Parents must educate their kids to restrict messages between teens and adults they don't follow, encouraging teens to make their accounts private, and prompting them to be careful in social media.

Educating to privacy, child safety, wellbeing and digital education must be reinforced by parents and teachers.

We must help kids and teens to be informed. We need to give them the skills to keep themselves safe online.  

Knowing how to sniff out trouble, knowing how to avoid it, and knowing how to handle it when it comes knocking are key essential life skills.

Very important! There’s always someone to help young people : teachers, parents, older brothers, grandfathers.

As parents, pay attention to the new  tools to educate your children and help them  to keep privacy, and safe on the social media and other websites. 

G-Souto

10.08.2021

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Schools : e-Book : Jim Kay’s illustrated edition of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone

eBook Harry Potter and the Philosopher Stone

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As you know, 2017 is the celebration of 20th anniversary of Harry Potter saga. The first book Harry Potter and the Philospher Stone was published on the 20 June 1997.

In 2015, Bloomsbury and Scholastic published the first fully illustrated version of the Harry Potter books, with all of the art work done by the award-winning British artist, Jim Kay.

Harry  Potter and The Philosopher's Stone
J.K. Rowling
illustrator: Jim Kay

http://www.jimkay.co.uk/home/harry-potter/

"Muggles, grab your wands and hop on the Hogwarts Express because Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone is getting a whole new look".

Jim Kay’s fully illustrated edition of Philosopher’s Stone & the wizarding world is available since last September 5 with an interactive eBook created using Kindle in Motion technology, which will allow fans, our students, to tour scenes from the book and see illustrations come to life. 

eBookHarry Potter and the Philospher Stone

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Illustrator Jim Kay, who created the beloved illustrated print edition of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone in 2015, is bringing back the same style readers know and love but with a few never-before-seen additions.

This first look features a Gringotts goblin hard at work, and the moving front cover, which features an owl that actually flies and billowing smoke floating from the Hogwarts Express.

Education:

Students/fans will be able to experience the frenetic activity of Diagon Alley, witness an enchanting sorting ceremony and watch as the Hogwarts Express prepares to depart from Platform 9 ¾.

eBookHarry Potter and the Philospher Stone

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• Education:

When a letter arrives for unhappy but ordinary Harry Potter, a decade-old secret is revealed to him that apparently he's the last to know. His parents were wizards, killed by a Dark Lord's curse when Harry was just a baby, and which he somehow survived. Leaving his unsympathetic aunt and uncle for Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Harry stumbles upon a sinister mystery when he finds a three-headed dog guarding a room on the third floor. Then he hears of a missing stone with astonishing powers, which could be valuable, dangerous - or both. An incredible adventure is about to begin...

As students return to school this fall, prepare yours to be spellbound by this dazzling depiction of the wizarding world and its much-loved characters in this Kindle in Motion edition of one of the world's favourite books: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. 

Brimming with rich detail and humour that perfectly complements J.K. Rowling's timeless classic, Jim Kay's glorious illustrations will captivate students better if they are new readers of Harry Potter.

eBookHarry Potter and the Philospher Stone

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Students will also be able to see newly animated character portraits, which will include the ever-dreaded Draco Malfoy and the dearly beloved Albus Dumbledore.

• Other highlights:

As I wrote above the moving book will include a multi-page spread of the lively Diagon Alley, an animated portrait of Draco Malfoy and a handy guide to trolls.

As well as moving images, students/readers can still tailor their reading experience, adjusting font sizes with the newly sized words magically reflowing around the animation and images, and, if they choose, toggle the animations off or on.


Devices:

The e-book can be read on any device, including Kindle E-readers. And it's available for download on almost any tablet or smart phone.

Kindle in Motion books include art, animation, or video features that can be viewed on certain tablets and the free Kindle app for iOS and Android. You can switch features on or off at any time.

Language: English

Price: $9.99 (must see the actual price)

Other resources: Videos

Curricula : Languages & Media

Level: Different levels. It will depend of the profile of your students. Teachers will prepare some activities to explore the e-book. 

G-Souto

19.09.2017

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Let's talk ! Oxford English Dictionary : new entries 2017

Oxford English Dictionary

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The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the accepted authority on the English language, providing an unsurpassed "guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of more than 280,000 entries – past and present – from across the English-speaking world."

As a historical dictionary, the OED is very different from Dictionaries of current English, in which the focus is on present-day meanings. 

We'll still find present-day meanings in the OED, but we’ll also find the history of individual words, and of the language—traced through 3 million quotations, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books.

Oxford English Dictionary

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The OED started life more than 150 years ago. Today, the dictionary is in the process of its first major revision. 

Updates revise and extend the OED at regular intervals, each time subtly adjusting our image of the English language. The last one in June 2017, another one in March 2017.

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What's New?

More than 600 new words, phrases, and senses have been added to the Oxford English Dictionary in June 2017 including bug chaser, chantoosie, gin daisy, and widdly. 

Ute Lemper, German chantoosie
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Teachers & Linguistic:

You can read about other new and revised meanings in the article by Katherine Connor Martin, Head of US Dictionaries, and explore OED timeline of veil words.

As this update also includes revisions to the word come, Denny Hilton, Senior Editor of the OED, explores the evolution of the term to come out in release notes. 

You can also review your serve - or your backhand or volley - in OED discussion of tennis terms.

Selected Letters of Norman Mailer (2014, edited by J. Michael Lennon) has recently been read as part of the OED’s reading programme, and the letters have provided several antedatings and some interesting insights into the challenges of finding evidence for swear words in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. You can read about this here.

*Don't forget to explore my post English Dictionaries Oxford & Collins (January 2017.

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When work began on the Philological Society’s proposed new English dictionary in the 1850s, the modern game of tennis did not exist. At that time, ‘tennis’ referred to what we now know as real tennis or (in North America) court tennis, a ball game of French origin played since medieval times on a purpose-built roofed oblong court. 

Henry V

William Shakespeare

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This game had made its own impression on the English language and its literature: perhaps most famously, Henry V, in a scene immortalized by Shakespeare, is said:

And tell the pleasant Prince this mock of his
Hath turned his balls to gunstones, and his soul
Shall stand sore chargèd for the wasteful vengeance
That shall fly from them….

Act I, scene ii, Henry V

In the throne room of the royal palace in England, King Henry V prepares to speak with a delegation of ambassadors from France, after have received a mocking ‘gift’ of tennis balls from the Dauphin of France with the suggestion that playing tennis was a more suitable occupation for him than making war. Henry did not take this well. 

Most of the tennis-related items that have now been added to Oxford English Dictionary Online reflect the changes and developments in the game in the twentieth century, of which the most important is professionalization.



Some other entries 2017:

Kodak moment

https://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2017/

Some of them seem to be rather late additions - Kodak moment and sausage party - but others might become part of your daily lexicon.

They include zyzzyva, a genus of tropical weevils native to South America. The word replaces zythum - an ancient Egyptian malt beer - as the OED's final entry.

Zyzzyva

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Zyzzyva is a genus of tropical weevils often found in palm trees in South America. According to the OED, the word should be pronounced Ziziva. 

The word, which will now become the final listed among the 826,000 entries in the English language according to the OED, has previously appeared in a number of other dictionaries and will now finally receive recognition.

Yas

http://metro.co.uk/2017/

And other new words have been added, including cringey, bronde and yas.

Aquafaba, n.

https://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2017/

Culinary:

The culinary world always serves up a feast of new terminology, and the latest spread is no disappointment. The new menu ranges from the healthy - such as superfruit, a term used to refer to fruits considered to be particularly beneficial—to the markedly less healthy - such as shoestring fries, also known as shoestring potatoes, which are French fries sliced extremely thinly. If you order the Cuban sandwich frita (from the feminine of Spanish frito meaning ‘fried’), you’ll find a handful of these fries in addition to seasoned pork and beef. Should you require something a little more vegan, perhaps you’ll be tempted by aquafaba, a substitute for egg whites used in vegan cooking, with a name that translates from Latin to ‘water-bean’. This name is a reference to the substance’s origins as the water in which chickpeas, or other pulses, have been cooked. Other words 

4Freecycle, n.

https://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2017/

The Environment:

With certain foods (such as courgettes) becoming less available in the UK due to poor crops, the environment has been on everyone’s mind here, though likely it weighs heavier on the minds of climate refugees—this term refers to those forced to leave their home due to the effects of climate change rendering it unsafe or uninhabitable. More words

Flyboarding, n.

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Sports:

One of the latest water sports that’s defined by our online dictionary is flyboarding, in which a person travels through the air—in an act that looks suspiciously like flying—using a board propelled by jets of water. Granted, the flyboard is attached to a jet ski, but this is a good-sized step closer to the forms of transport I’ve always expected the 21^st century to offer us.

To skitch, v.

https://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2017/

Thrill-seekers on the hunt for a way of levelling up their commute might choose to skitch: this word is a blend of skate or ski and hitch, and refers to the activity of ‘hitching’ onto a motor vehicle while riding a bike, skateboard, etc. so as to travel at greater speeds, not always giving the driver any warning of your intentions. Possibly not the safest way... More words

New vocabulary OED

 Picture: Shutterstock/Ella Byworth

http://metro.co.uk/2017/

Other new entries:

Meet-cute, n.

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meet-cute (noun):(in a film or television programme) an amusing or charming first encounter between two characters that leads to the development of a romantic relationship between them.

In romantic comedies and Disney movies, the protagonists tend to meet in the most adorable of ways.

Hackfest, n.

http://www.thedenveregotist.com/

Hackfest, noun: an event dedicated to sharing information about computer programming. Make sure you’ve understood the invite though, because hackfest can also refer to a period of frenzied violence. In this sense, it differs…

web tablet

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web tablet, noun: new computing tool.  With the introduction of the iPhone in 2007, and the iPad in 2010 now both used in the classroom, education began to change. For good!

Scratch Overview from ScratchEd on Vimeo.

Scratch, noun: a free programming language and online community where students can create their own interactive stories, games, and animations.

Eminem, rapper

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Stan, noun: an obsessed fan. Ten years later, Stan enters in OED. You don't know why? Read here

Well, it's a long list! See a full list of new words, subentries, and senses added in this update.

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• Resources: 
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• New feature:  Interactive surfing timeline
• Explore the OED interactive surfing timeline to see when surfing words entered the English language. 

Resources online: Students

• Word origines

• World Lists

• Language questions

• Quizzes

*Don't forget to explore my post English Dictionaries Oxford & Collins (January 2017.

Education:

Young people are probably the most creative agents for new words because they’re not held back by convention, for sure.

‘Young people are the real artists of the language and a dictionary should reflect that."

David Swarbrick, managing director at Chambers, 2015

Our students suprises us every day with new words. They often are the new 'linguistics' of the XXI century.

Without young people and new technology, languages would be 'death languages'. 

If so, no excuse for students! They don't appreciate to use the dictionary. But dictionaries are imperative resources to understan what they are reading or writing.

It's a vast and very useful educational tool for students, in this case OED, to learn and understand the English language, English literature, history, law, and many other subjects.

The dictionary encourages knowledge, curiosity and vocabulary skills.

Teachers can place holder sheets practices to be used by younger students according to their learning level. 

There are interesting resources to practice the English language.

Be stan of a dictionary (native language and foreign languages. And don't skitch...

Note: The digital resources and educational tools published on this blog are my own free choice. I don't do endorsements or advertising.

G-Souto

16.07.2017

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