Published 27th March 2008. On 6th September 2007, the Prime Minister asked Dr. Tanya Byron to conduct an independent review looking at the risks to children from exposure to potentially harmful or inappropriate material on the internet and in video games."

I blog about pupils' use of interent, safe searching and the read/write web

Insightful (and harrowing in places): 7 chapters re online teenagers - a revolution in classrooms and social life - self expression, trying on new identities - the child predator fear - private worlds outside parents' reach? - cyberbullying - updates

My Pupils have discovered YouTube -- I wonder how? | Aylesbury LIFE

Sensationlist new article about the fact that everytime you install an app on facebook, you give away your facebook log in details. So who keeps their bank details on facebook? You do...?! Oh, I'm sorry perhaps I shouldn't have said anything -- not.

There is a place for caution -- but not by way of knee-jerk reaction to streams of old new like this.

vodaphone targetting social network 'training' at teachers in 2008

Bumped in to this today -- would you belive in coincidences -- Parents as Partners at joined by Steve Hargadon tonight 14 April 9pm PDT (too late for GMT me) -- participate at chatroom http://edtechtalk.com/live -- to discuss web2.0 pedagogies in schools and best practices for educating parents -- I so wish I could stay up but will have to leave that for others (aka feedback request please) -- although thinking about it I might manage to get up early the following day (ouch).

Community 'moderated' DNS level web filter applied to broadband router sure keeps pc-offspring-'hackers' well filtered (until they discover reset button on router -- mmm perhaps keeping broadband provider instructions for router somewhere safe would be a good idea).

Just blogged this. perhaps 'internet' and 'pornography' and 'forward looking educators' were a bit much to put in adjacent paragraphs of blog for teachers -- hang on though -- there must be some matter I didn't sensationalise.

Just blogged this, the day before school starts. Feedback most welcome.

Use the powerful medium of the web, and advances in streaming video technology to help you think, speak out and act on important issues happening in the real world outside your windows.

This is a gem from UK for "users, teachers, leaders and managers" of educational ICT. As members of ad4dcss are, like it or not, leaders (with all that entails) I think we will find much helpful here. Also this is home of the e-book, "Coming of Age" and soon to be released "Coming of Age 2.0" that are just slightly relevant.

Advocates for Digital Citizenship, Safety, and Success grouptweet:- follow, be followed then any 1 of us direct texts ad4dcss which auto-re-tweets to followers-of-ad4dcss of course.

David Pogue write in The New York Times, "As my own children approach middle school, my own fears align with the documentary's findings in another way: that cyber-bullying is a far more realistic threat. "

Steve Hargadon writes: 'We've spent the last ten years teaching students how to protect themselves from inappropriate content - now we have to teach them to create appropriate content.'

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