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Both Marje Monroe and Doug Fodeman have worked with elementary, middle and high schools, churches, synagogues and other organizations throughout the country since 1997, helping teachers, administrators, parents and children understand and cope with the many issues affecting children online. They have conducted surveys and collected data on the Internet behavior of thousands of children and teens online for many years as well. Doug published some of the results of that data in the fall of 2006 at IndependentTeacher.org
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| Doug Fodeman has also given workshops on a wide variety of related topics such as Using Search Engines Effectively, Protecting Your Privacy Online, and Telecollaboration. In addition, Doug is currently the Director of Technology at Brookwood School, a Pre-K through grade 8 elementary school in Eastern Massachusetts where he has been since 1997. He has taught High School science for more than 18 years, served as Director of Technology at the Pingree School, and served as a technology consultant to the architectural firm Olson, Lewis, Dioli & Doktor, focusing on the integration of computer technology into architectural design. Doug has been a guest speaker with ABC World News, CBS Evening News and Deborah Rowe of the ABC affiliate WLSAM Radio Station in Chicago on the topic of cell phone scams targeting children and issues affecting children online. |
Marje Monroe is a Clinical Social Worker with over 20 years of counseling, teaching and administrative positions in schools. Her experience includes Counselor at Buckingham Browne and Nichols in Cambridge, MA, Dean of Students at Stoneleigh Burnham School in Greenfield, MA, Director of Counseling at Saint Andrew's School in Boca Raton, Fl and Executive Director of the Winnetka, IL Youth Center. Throughout her career, Marje has taught Psychology and English, and developed curricula on sex education, substance abuse, ethics and decision making. Marje has extensive experience assisting schools with a wide variety of topics including building age appropriate programs, dealing with issues around sexual harassment and helping families and schools deal with bullying and violence. Coordinating schools, families and community agencies on behalf of the well-being of children and adolescents has been the focus of Marje's career.
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"We want to thank you so much for such a good experience. We have had many positive comments and even effects. One father wrote the next day about his son getting a knock on his facebook door from someone claiming to be his cousin. Not only did the father know what that meant, the son brought it to his parents attention and together they determined if it was a relative. I'd call that success to have been a part in starting that dialog. "
Linda Robinson, Director of Technology, Gann Academy, Waltham, MA. Excerpt from a weekly newsletter to parents: "At the beginning of this school year we discussed, as a community, the Jewish value of shemirat halashon (guarding the tongue) - the constructive, and often, destructive power of speech. For many of us, how we speak and what we say varies depending on where, why, and to whom we are speaking. This past Wednesday was a day of communal learning about one of the most fast-changing and complex places where we communicate and interact more often than ever before - the Internet. We invited guest educators Doug Fodeman and Marge Monroe to join our communal conversation about Internet Safety and the role of the Internet in our lives. As a participant in the conversations myself, I want to share the two strongest impressions that I took away from the day. First, the medium of the day was the message. We did not simply bring in two outside "experts" to lecture to our students about what they should or should not do (although I'm sure some of our students might have experienced it this way!). Instead, Doug and Mare shared observations, opinions and experiences, and then entered into a dialog with not only our students, but also with teachers, administrators and, in the evening, over forty parents. The medium was in fact the message because while there are practical steps we can take to make our use of the internet more safe, the first and perhaps most important step is for us to engage each other - parents, students, teachers, administrators - about the challenges we face and the choices we make when using the Internet. The message from the day that resonates most deeply with me, and I think with vision and values of our school, is that the conversation about Internet safety and behavior is not in fact about technology. It is about values, it is about character, and it is about relationships. How much time we spend on the Internet, which sites we visit, with whom we communicate, and how we communicate are choices that reflect who we are and the kinds of relationships we want to be in. And these questions - about our values, our relationships, and our community - are at the heart of family and at the heart of education." Rabbi Marc Baker, Head of School, Gann Academy, Waltham, MA. |