Most U.S. Schools don't have good mental health or strong connections with friends and nurturing adults. data shows that only 29 percent of sixth-through 12th-grade students report that their schools provide caring, encouraging environments. another 30 percent of high school students say they engage in high-risk behaviors, such as substance use, sex, violence and even suicide attempts
All subjects need to teach students how to search for, analyze and utilize digital information within the subject area. Be grateful for your "how to search" teaching librarian.
New service that parents can put on their child's computer that gives you educational games, ad blocking in a special browser and filtered web content. It looks like it is free (at least for now.) Let me know when you test it and how you like it in the comments below.
Many of their toys involve the use of the internet, and as children they may not know how to use the internet responsibly.
nternet is becoming a bigger and bigger part of the peaople of todays way of life
this means that everybody has to contribute to keeping it safe and fun and easy to use.
Nine out of ten students get bullied on the web.
Identity theft is a crime in which someone wrongfully obtains and uses another person's personal data in some way that involves fraud or deception, usually for profitable gain.
The internet as a whole is a privilege.
Our responsibility as digital citizens is to stop identity theft, and other harmful things on the internet. Here are some steps into stopping identity theft.
- Keep all identification and financial documents in a safe and private place.
- Check your credit reports annually
- Don’t carry around credit, debit, or ATM cards you don’t need.
- Update virus protection software periodically
The CyberBully Alert software is a tool for parents to equip their children with the ability to immediately communicate and document any threats or cyberbullying their children experience when online. Th
Experts agree that the best way to address cyberbullying and online threats is to immediately communicate the incident with an adult, as well as document what the threat is.
I think that every internet browser should have an easy, built in way to take a screen shot and send it to someone. We need this for many safety reasons. It is to protect those who need it most and are often the most technically challenged.
A text and email message immediately notifies pre-specified recipients of the online threat - assuring rapid communication between adults and children.
CyberBully Alert gives parents the security of immediately being there for their kids when a threat occurs—whether they are at work, in a meeting, on the road, or simply in another room.
New software that allows children to document and report harmful harrassment online. I would love to test this tool, I find it very interesting. I think this kind of thing is good, but never replaces a parent talking to a child.
However, if there is nothing that "can be done" because local laws and others have no method of dealing with it, then I don't know if it will breed frustration.
I think every computer should have an easy way to grab screenshots like my fireshot program in firefox. I think this should be part of every web browser.
Parents should have different log in id's on each computer for their family to prevent saved passwords from letting their kids do things they don't want done.
“Two Florida lawyers who called each other a ‘retard’ and ’scum sucking loser’ in escalating email insults [over six months] have been sanctioned by the state supreme court,”
The St. Petersburg Times provides the details of their pathetic email fight
When adults act like children.
""Two Florida lawyers who called each other a 'retard' and 'scum sucking loser' in escalating email insults [over six months] have been sanctioned by the state supreme court,""
Club Penguin is a snow-covered, virtual world where children play games and interact with friends in the guise of colourful penguin avatars.
In addition to being a great place to play and have fun, Club Penguin is a great place to learn and grow. On Club Penguin, children practice reading, develop keyboarding skills and participate in creative role playing. By accumulating and spending virtual coins earned through game play kids practice math and learn about money management.
Today, the term "virtual world" means a lot of things to a lot of people. To many, it means 2D online social games like Gaia Online or Club Penguin. To some, it means large-scale massively-multiplayer online games like World of Warcraft. And to others, it's open-ended 3D experiences like Second Life.
One could argue that virtual worlds have even taken a technological step backward, as most of the energy in the space these days is being put into building 2D Flash worlds for kids, or Facebook games played by the masses. It's big business, but hardly cutting edge.
The biggest danger at the moment for those who want to see rich, 3D virtual worlds take off right away is the massive popularity of social networks like Facebook and Twitter.
the future's not going to be all text and Flash windows. The fact that it is right now speaks to the deep human desire for real life connections and instantaneousness that new types of virtual worlds have to learn from. But I can't see it stopping there...I see social networks like Facebook that put everyone in the real world one click away as the foundational piece that was missing from a lot of last generation virtual worlds. Now there's a new wheel to build on.