Parents who install a leading brand of software to monitor their kids' online activities may be unwittingly allowing the company to read their children's chat messages — and sell the marketing data gathered.
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Web-monitoring software gathers data on kid chats by AP: Yahoo! Tech - 0 views
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Software sold under the Sentry and FamilySafe brands can read private chats conducted through Yahoo, MSN, AOL and other services, and send back data on what kids are saying about such things as movies, music or video games. The information is then offered to businesses seeking ways to tailor their marketing messages to kids.
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a separate data-mining service called Pulse that taps into the data gathered by Sentry software to give businesses a glimpse of youth chatter online. While other services read publicly available teen chatter, Pulse also can read private chats. It gathers information from instant messages, blogs, social networking sites, forums and chat rooms.
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Technology Review: Unmasking Social-Network Users - 0 views
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Every person does a few quirky, individual things which end up being strongly identifying."
Survey: Teens 'sext' and post personal info | Larry Magid at Large - CNET News - 0 views
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The summary points out that "Cyberbullying is widespread among today's teens, with over one-third having experienced it, engaged in it, or known of friends who have who have done either." But that one-third is cumulative of bullies, people who have been bullied and even people who know someone who's been bullied.
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20 percent of teens "say they have sent/posted nude or semi-nude pictures or video of themselves." But the data from the Cox survey showed that while 20 percent of teens "have engaged in sexting," that number, too, is cumulative. Only 9 percent "sent a sext," while 17 percent received one, and 3 percent forwarded a "sext."
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it's important for parents to talk with their teens about appropriate use of the Internet. Don't scare them or shut down their use, but do remind them to mind their manners, think before they post, and seek help if someone is bullying or harassing them.
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Crimes Against Children Research Center - 0 views
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he nature of crimes in which online predators used the Internet to meet and victimize youth changed little between 2000 and 2006, despite the advent of social networking sites. Victims were adolescents, not younger children. Most offenders were open about their sexual motives in their online communications with youth. Few crimes (5 percent) involved violence
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This is interesting. With all the hype it's interesting that the facts don't support the hysteria.
ALA | AASL Top 25 Websites for Teaching and Learning - 90 views
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This looks like a great list of websites for teaching and learning, organized into Organizing and Managing, Content Collaboration, Curriculum Sharing, Media Sharing, Virtual Environments, and Social Networking and Communication.
I Don't Understand My Colleagues Sometimes - The Educators' Royal Treatment - 73 views
Dipity - Find, Create, and Embed Interactive Timelines - 91 views
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Great tool for telling a story along a timeline. Include, photos, videos, text, etc. View it as a timeline, flipbook, list or map your events. Easy to embed or share with your social network. -
Dipity is a tool that you can use to create timelines. -
Timelines for older students
12 Expert Twitter Tips for the Classroom: Social Networking Classroom Activities That E... - 51 views
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Communicating with Experts
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Communicating with Experts
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Communicating with Experts
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The Canadian Press: Canadian Centre for Child Protection launches site to teach teens s... - 14 views
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The Canadian Centre for Child Protection is launching a website targeting texting teens to teach safe use of the popular technology amid growing concerns about young people sending sexual messages and nude photos via text.
The Canadian Press: Students failing because of Twitter, texting and no grammar teaching - 25 views
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Almost a third of those students are failing.
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For years there's been a flood of anecdotal complaints from professors about what they say is the wretched state of English grammar coming from some of their students.
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the failure rate has jumped five percentage points in the past few years, up to 30 per cent from 25 per cent.
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Reading and the Web - Texts Without Context - NYTimes.com - 28 views
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In his deliberately provocative — and deeply nihilistic — new book, “Reality Hunger,” the onetime novelist David Shields asserts that fiction “has never seemed less central to the culture’s sense of itself.”
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Mr. Shields’s book consists of 618 fragments, including hundreds of quotations taken from other writers like Philip Roth, Joan Didion and Saul Bellow — quotations that Mr. Shields, 53, has taken out of context and in some cases, he says, “also revised, at least a little — for the sake of compression, consistency or whim.”
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It’s also a question, as Mr. Lanier, 49, astutely points out in his new book, “You Are Not a Gadget,” of how online collectivism, social networking and popular software designs are changing the way people think and process information, a question of what becomes of originality and imagination in a world that prizes “metaness” and regards the mash-up as “more important than the sources who were mashed.”
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Highly insightful and developed argument for how Web 2.0 is changing how we process information, learn, and develop opinions.
Dr. Larry Dossey: Is Technology Making Children More Empathic? - 25 views
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The shift into the distributed ICT [Information and Communications Technology] revolution, however, and the proliferation of social networks and collaborative forms of engagement on the Internet are creating deep fissures in the orthodox approach to education. The result is that a growing number of educators are beginning to revise curricula by introducing distributed and collaborative learning models into the classroom.
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that media use among kids is so pervasive that it is time to stop arguing over whether it is good or bad and accept it as part of children's environment
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Many observers such as Rifkin believe there are positives in the desire of kids to be electronically connected all the time. Concealed in this behavior, they say, is a need for acceptance and to be liked and loved, which is a healthy desire that has always been a part of the maturational process.
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Flavors.me - 56 views
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via tekzilla If you're looking for a quick and elegant way to bring together all of your social networking sites into one place, try to Flavors.me. In about 10 minutes, you can put together a simple homepage that links to all of your places online. -
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The Tell-All Generation Learns When Not To, at Least Online - NYTimes.com - 55 views
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They are more diligent than older adults, however, in trying to protect themselves. In a new study to be released this month, the Pew Internet Project has found that people in their 20s exert more control over their digital reputations than older adults, more vigorously deleting unwanted posts and limiting information about themselves. “Social networking requires vigilance, not only in what you post, but what your friends post about you,” said Mary Madden, a senior research specialist who oversaw the study by Pew, which examines online behavior. “Now you are responsible for everything.”
join diaspora - 45 views
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