Hands on experience by parents too.

Julia....what a great idea to have the students create the rules - I'm going to use that for sure! I thought your "ah-ha" moment was the same as mine for a moment, especially when you said, "I got to thinking how students (and perhaps people in general?) tend to learn better when they themselves are involved hands-on. The whole concept of 'if you can teach it, you have learned it'. ". But my thinking when I was reading that (and the previous post and article), was that I really do think that parents would be so much more informed if they would actually participate in what their children are doing. Get a Facebook account. Make a MySpace page. Learn what is happening and how things work by participating. I think then that parents would be viewed with a tiny bit more respect from their kids if they can talk the talk, using the language of the various  online sites. They would also become obviously more educated and be able to make informed decisions about their children's activities on the web and, perhaps, just perhaps, become a little less stressed about the whole thing. I think sometimes people overdo the dangerous because they are misinformed and thus sometimes threaten throwing out the baby with the bath-water so-to-speak.