Don't Hit Send Just to Fit In tells the story of a group of tweens who become victims to cyber bullies. On their way to discovering more positive ways to deal with these new found issues, the tweens become bullies themselves. Through the help of positive adults and a magical keyboard, they learn not to succumb to the lure of cyber bullying and realize that there are better ways to fit in and make friends.
Worries that the Internet and social networking services like MySpace pose a threat to child safety may be overblown, a report by industry, academics and technology experts suggests. The report, which will be released on Wednesday, suggests that the biggest threats to children's safety online may come from other children, and that their own behavior could contribute to the trouble they encounter.
Do you wonder how kids are being affected by growing up in a globally interconnected, multicultural, participatory world? Whether you're a parent or educator, it's important to understand the challenges and opportunities experiences like posting to Facebook, creating a blog, or IM'ing offer to kids, and what you can do to help your kids be successful today.
Explore important topics in Internet use at school or at home. These guided, multimedia activities allow you to examine issues affecting schoolwork, class papers, entertainment activities and online safety.
Proper Internet etiquette from next year will take up a bigger part of ethics textbooks in elementary schools. Students in Korea begin to learn Internet ethics from the fourth grade, but second and third graders will get instruction on the topic next year.
The only merit in using a term like 'cyberbullying', in my opinion, is that it draws attention to the fact that, because it takes place online, its perpetrators can hide behind a cloak of anonymity. In that sense it is possibly different from, and worse than, bullying in the physical world.
When schools first established on-ramps for the information superhighway, the common wisdom was that "filters would protect children as they use the Internet." I never bought into that myth. My position has always been that the best filtering software sits under the hardware that rides on top of the shoulders.
CyberMentors is a social networking website that is run by the charity Beat Bullying. It helps and gives support to young people who are victims of cyberbullying, as well as young people who are feeling low for any other reason.