Comcast partners with One Economy Corporation, a leader in promoting broadband for economic and social empowerment, to run the Comcast Digital Connectors program. The program builds local cadres of young people ages 14-21, trains them in Internet and computer skills, and empowers them to help people in diverse communities understand the importance of broadband. To date, more than 3,500 Digital Connectors have delivered more than 77,000 hours of technology-focused community service. The Comcast Digital Connectors program will be rolled out in more than 50 sites across the United States.
CIC Mission Statement
Cable in the Classroom (CIC) promotes the visionary, sensible, responsible and effective use of cable’s broadband technology, services, and content in teaching and learning. CIC also advocates digital citizenship and supports the complimentary provision, by cable industry companies, of broadband and multichannel video services and educational content to the nation’s schools.
Areas of work:
Internet Essentials developed by Comcast is an exciting new program designed with the assistance of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to bridge America's digital divide. In conformity with the National Broadband Plan, the program addresses key barriers to Internet access and adoption by providing affordable Internet access, the opportunity to purchase a computer and training to low-income families with at least one child receiving free or reduced lunches under the National School Lunch Program. Participating families may be able to benefit from Internet Essentials for the entire life of their child's K-12 education, as long as they remain eligible and reside within the Comcast footprint.
Charter Communications and One Economy, a global non-profit organization that leverages the power of technology to improve the lives of low income people, will partner with local community agencies in a pilot program to provide up to 1,000 St. Louis area households with free Internet service, training and affordable technology.
CSI is a one hour program for parents and students in which our Amarillo ISD’s prevention specialist lectures on various online safety topics such as cyber bullying, online predators, and social networking sites, etc. Suddenlink's Amarillo system discusses the various tools including parental control features, using McAfee Security Suite and what your Internet Service Provider can do to help. Suddenlink hosts 3 - 4 CSI programs each school year at local libraries, teacher conferences, and community college classes.
Suddenlink hosts an annual CSI Internet Safety Poster contest in October for the Amarillo school district grades 5 - 8 to promote online safety awareness in the community they serve. Prizes include iPods and gift certificates to the winners.
Internet Safety with Professor Garfield
Digital Literacy, Internet Safety & Security
Created by Ball State University and the creative studio for Garfield the cat, this site presents a series of online, interactive, animated lessons about internet safety.
The Internet Keep Safe Coalition teaches basic rules of Internet safety to children and adults through an animated character, Faux Paws the techno cat, in online stories and in books. Teacher materials, including worksheets and lesson ideas are available online. Parent materials include a video series on safety and four lessons designed for use in a family setting:
Cable in the Classroom is committed to showcasing visionary educators using technology and media to engage students and encourage learning. From 2005 – 2009, the Cable’s Leaders in Learning Awards program recognized more than 60 outstanding educators, administrators, policymakers and other community leaders at the forefront of innovation in education. Today, CIC continues to spotlight vanguards that change the face of teaching and learning through their leadership, passion, creativity and vision in hopes they may inspire an idea, encourage collaboration or challenge your thinking.
For more than 20 years, the cable industry has been providing educational tools and resources that help teachers, students and parents. In addition to TV programs, cable companies and networks have created a number of initiatives to engage learners, whether they’re children or adults. These include projects that get kids up and moving, learning and doing. Examples include creating videos, working with charities, competing in science challenges, and being inspired by a mentor. Cable initiatives typically include print and online educational content, lesson plans, and sometimes games, competitions, and prizes. Cable companies have also honored outstanding teachers with national award programs contests and grants. A few examples of cable initiatives are included below.
CIC Mission Statement
Cable in the Classroom (CIC) promotes the visionary, sensible, responsible and effective use of cable’s broadband technology, services, and content in teaching and learning. CIC also advocates digital citizenship and supports the complimentary provision, by cable industry companies, of broadband and multichannel video services and educational content to the nation’s schools.
Areas of work:
- Exercise a national leadership role in advocating the innovative and effective use of broadband in teaching and learning, and for digital citizenship.
- Encourage and recognize educational leadership that exemplifies the innovative use of cable services, broadband technology, media literacy, and related services and applications.
- Represent the cable industry’s commitment to education by showcasing the wide variety of cable initiatives in education, and by encouraging cable industry companies to continue their efforts to contribute to learning.
Internet Essentials developed by Comcast is an exciting new program designed with the assistance of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to bridge America's digital divide. In conformity with the National Broadband Plan, the program addresses key barriers to Internet access and adoption by providing affordable Internet access, the opportunity to purchase a computer and training to low-income families with at least one child receiving free or reduced lunches under the National School Lunch Program. Participating families may be able to benefit from Internet Essentials for the entire life of their child's K-12 education, as long as they remain eligible and reside within the Comcast footprint.
Charter Communications and One Economy, a global non-profit organization that leverages the power of technology to improve the lives of low income people, will partner with local community agencies in a pilot program to provide up to 1,000 St. Louis area households with free Internet service, training and affordable technology.
CSI is a one hour program for parents and students in which our Amarillo ISD’s prevention specialist lectures on various online safety topics such as cyber bullying, online predators, and social networking sites, etc. Suddenlink's Amarillo system discusses the various tools including parental control features, using McAfee Security Suite and what your Internet Service Provider can do to help. Suddenlink hosts 3 - 4 CSI programs each school year at local libraries, teacher conferences, and community college classes.
Suddenlink hosts an annual CSI Internet Safety Poster contest in October for the Amarillo school district grades 5 - 8 to promote online safety awareness in the community they serve. Prizes include iPods and gift certificates to the winners.
Internet Safety with Professor Garfield
Digital Literacy, Internet Safety & Security
Created by Ball State University and the creative studio for Garfield the cat, this site presents a series of online, interactive, animated lessons about internet safety.
The Internet Keep Safe Coalition teaches basic rules of Internet safety to children and adults through an animated character, Faux Paws the techno cat, in online stories and in books. Teacher materials, including worksheets and lesson ideas are available online. Parent materials include a video series on safety and four lessons designed for use in a family setting:
- Meet Faux Paw the Techno Cat
- What to do When Something Online Worries You
- Bullying and the Myth of Internet Anonymity
- Our Family’s Safety Contract
Cable in the Classroom is committed to showcasing visionary educators using technology and media to engage students and encourage learning. From 2005 – 2009, the Cable’s Leaders in Learning Awards program recognized more than 60 outstanding educators, administrators, policymakers and other community leaders at the forefront of innovation in education. Today, CIC continues to spotlight vanguards that change the face of teaching and learning through their leadership, passion, creativity and vision in hopes they may inspire an idea, encourage collaboration or challenge your thinking.
For more than 20 years, the cable industry has been providing educational tools and resources that help teachers, students and parents. In addition to TV programs, cable companies and networks have created a number of initiatives to engage learners, whether they’re children or adults. These include projects that get kids up and moving, learning and doing. Examples include creating videos, working with charities, competing in science challenges, and being inspired by a mentor. Cable initiatives typically include print and online educational content, lesson plans, and sometimes games, competitions, and prizes. Cable companies have also honored outstanding teachers with national award programs contests and grants. A few examples of cable initiatives are included below.
The meaning of literacy has changed. It used to be enough to teach children how to read and write, speak and listen. Today, they also communicate through a variety of media, each of which presents unique advantages and challenges. To be literate in a digital world, children have to pay attention to the information being conveyed, the media through which it is transmitted, and the technology that makes it possible. How a child composes an email, YouTube video, web page or social networking profile is impacted by the choices she makes about the information, media and technology she’ll use. In turn, those choices greatly influence how other individuals will perceive her message and the meaning they will make from it.
Digital literacy, sometimes called ICT (information and communications technology) literacy brings together several related fields—media literacy, information literacy, technology literacy—each of which has its own body of research and resources.
Digital literacy, sometimes called ICT (information and communications technology) literacy brings together several related fields—media literacy, information literacy, technology literacy—each of which has its own body of research and resources.