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This article looks the responsibilities that internet advertisers have to children and legal issue related to the vulnerability of children.

Children with learning disabilities can benefit from technological advances being made, including the use of virtual reality. What is Virtual Reality? Virtual reality allows the user to explore and interact with a three-dimensional (3-D), computer-simulated environment in a seemingly real or physical way, typically using special electronic equipment.

This article focuses on the experience of children with disabilities in an increasingly technology dominated world. Wise addresses many associated issues including: disparities for healthcare including children with disabilities. Certain ethical questions arise with the advent of new technology, for example terminating a childbirth because you know that the child will have some disability. In the end it comes to technology access, Wise believes. As long as there is inequity in access, technology may have a negative impact on those with special needs.

Studies have shown that internet filtering does not stop people from bypassing filters and if an experienced computer person can find ways around them. There are sites that allow for these bypasses such as Sites like Peacefire.org are dedicated to helping individuals get around filters. Another method of bypassing filters is through proxy servers, such as Psiphon and StupidCensorship. Some filtering sites, therefore, choose to filter proxy-avoidance sites, URL translators, and other workaround sites. This raises a new and wholly different intellectual freedom concern beyond the protection of children from sexually explicit material.

This article examines advertising in online environments and how children are encouraged to provide information in order to participate.

The purpose of this article is to examine how children are pursued by the advertiser based on age and interests. Their personal information is collected from social media profile pages and used in a technique known as profile targeting.

What we can do to keep students and children safe among the potential dangers of using the internet.

The Exceptional Children Organization set policies that respect the diverse characteristics of individual learners.

Friedman, York, H., Mokdad, A. H., & Gakidou, E. (2021). U.S. children "learning online" during COVID-19 without the internet or a computer: Visualizing the gradient by race/ethnicity and parental educational attainment. Socius : Sociological Research for a Dynamic World, 7, https://doi.org/10.1177/2378023121992607

Electronic Media and Parental Influence In this section we examine parents' role in their adolescents' use of electronic media to communicate with friends and strangers. To start, what do parents know about the various communication forms and their teens' use of them?

An Analysis of Electronic Media to Prepare Children for Safe and Ethical Practices in Digital Environments EDU681102 - FA15 Module 3, Week 2 Ness, Article #4

"The 2009 "Horizon Report" called mobile technologies "an opportunity for higher education to reach its constituents in new and compelling ways." The report implied that academic libraries would find them to be the ideal tools for bringing reluctant researchers to the library, mainly for their convenience. It's not hard to see why--in 2008, mobile phones were in the hands of more than 4 billion users, a 61% penetration rate worldwide. By 2012, the mobile phone is expected to outsell the personal computer. The leaders in mobile communication are, not surprisingly, adults in the 18 to 29 age group, the traditional college-age student. Academic libraries are not blind to this--a 2009 "Library Journal" survey found that 65% of academic libraries either already offer or plan to offer mobile services. If one's library is in that 35% with no plans for mobile outreach keep reading--one will find ideas to make his/her library a true 21st-century information hub." [Abstract from ERIC Database.] Link to the full-text article in the ESC EbscoHost Education Source database: http://eds.a.ebscohost.com.library.esc.edu/ehost/detail/detail?vid=28&sid=777400f5-917a-43a0-83b8-26cdc83f8315%40sessionmgr4003&hid=4103&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#AN=63993342&db=a9h Kosturski, K., & Skornia, F. (2011). Handheld Libraries 101: Using mobile technologies in the academic library. Computers in Libraries, 31(6), 11-13.

Hi Robert, the proliferation of mobile technologies and the need for all Internet using facitilties, including libraries, to make their content available and searchable is definitely here. My personal experience is that I keep toggling back and forth between my smartphone and my laptop. However, I notice that my children (now in their 20s) are using their phones for everything. So keeping abreast of the changes this requires, like keeping everything legible within the relatively small screen, expecting users to use the 'portrait' version more frequently than landscape, is something that all web designers have to adapt to. Thanks for this article. M

I thought this was a very good article. A couple of my courses we have talked a lot about collaborative learning and how important it is to work together so I found this really interesting. I really liked the tools that was shared in the article and the ones that I have not used or accessed before I did save the links to explore later.

Collaborative learning can be beneficial in so many ways for teachers and learners. My own children (middle school and high school) work on group projects for school while at home using google docs all the time. I have encouraged my own students to use google docs so they can never use the excuse "it's on my computer at home."

Love this article, because it applies to the workforce too. My Digital tools class went over a few of these resources that many do know exist for us to use. I will be using this articles to explore other tools to use!

The UNICEF Innocenti report on Child Safety Online shows that countries that have guidelines for social workers related to online child safety often have separate guidelines for law enforcement agencies, but lack a structured mechanism for the reporting of online abuse, referrals and coordinated actions. As mentioned above, there is still a need to strike the balance in policy between protection from all forms of violence, sexual abuse and exploitation, and the rights to information, freedom of expression and association, privacy and non-discrimination