Must read from Doc Searls:

» Do we have to “trade off” privacy? ProjectVRM: “The issue here isn’t how much our privacy is worth to the advertising mills of the world, or to intermediaries like FourSquare. It’s how we maintain and control our privacy, which is essentially priceless—even if millions of us give it away for trinkets or less. Privacy is deeply tied with who we are as human beings in the world. To be fully human is to be in control of one’s self, including the spaces we occupy.”

This is especially pertinent for educators like myself who are eager to hop in to the social web with both feet and encourage our students to do so without always giving a proper prep talk on what exactly that might entail. I give the talks, but I can do a better job of making that talk relevant to a 13 year old with a different frame of mind and reference point than the ones I employ.

I pride myself on being a teacher that emphasizes awareness of the self and the spaces we occupy, so I was glad to see Doc use that language. However, I (and U.S. schools in general) can do a much better job of teaching awareness and cognizance of place and space occupation.