Threshold Magazine
Summer 2009

This issue features articles focused on protecting and preparing youth for the digital world, produced in partnership with Common Sense Media and the Internet Keep Safe Coalition.

	From Safety to Literacy: Digital Citizenship in the 21st Century Marsali Hancock, Rebecca Randall, and Alan Simpson look at how the focus of Internet-safety education has evolved from teaching ‘stranger danger’ to raising ethical and responsible cyber-citizens.
	Why Schools Should Break the Web 2.0 Barrier Will Richardson explores how new paths to learning await schools that embrace the transformative power of technology.
	Virginia is for Safety How one state developed the nation’s first comprehensive Internet-safety education plan.
	iKeepSafe Digital Citizenship C3 Matrix A resource for educators to integrate cyber-safety, -security, and -ethics into existing technology and literacy standards and curriculum.
	Internet Safety and Responsible Behavior Online: A Threshold Forum Education leaders Davina Pruitt-Mentle, Renee Hobbs, Matt Levinson, Bette Manchester, and Jayne Moore discuss the challenges to promoting Internet safety and digital media literacy to today’s teachers, students, and parents.
	It Didn't Happen at School, but ... Larry Magid looks at the ways educators and the courts are grappling with the boundaries of school jurisdiction and responsibility in the borderless world of the Web.
	Toward Real Digital Learning Turning school leaders into ed-tech enthusiasts is the key to really bringing teachers and students into the 21st century.
	Departments
	Explorations Protecting and preparing youth for the digital world.
	About Threshold Who we are, what we do, and why.
	In Focus School leaders and Web 2.0, what kids do online, and more.