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I Learn, Therefore iPhone

Almost a thousand incoming freshmen at ACU (Abilene Christian University) received an Apple iPhone 3G or iPod Touch Aug. 16 as part of their first day in college. The deployment marks the first time that a university has introduced the Apple mobile devices as learning tools on such a large scale.

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Cyberbullying: Do You Know What Your Kids Are Texting?

With unlimited text messaging plans, Facebook, Myspace and e-mail, teenagers have a vast amount of technology at their finger tips. Some of those teens aren’t using the technologies for good. They are using it to bully their classmates.

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Greene County Tech Assistant Superintendent Amy Lucius said students having access to these technologies is happening earlier and earlier — she noted a second grader had a cell phone at the primary school.
Lucius said many Mondays are spent trying to solve a problem started by cyber-bullying. She said parents or students will come to the principals office with cell phones or computer print outs of messaging between their child and a bully. Or they may have print outs of inappropriate pictures sent to their child.
“As soon as an incident is reported to the principal, we will call all the students involved to the office,” she said. “We try to find out what is going on. We try to determine if this is going on at school. But, many times these instances take place over the weekend or late at night while a teen is staying up late chatting or playing on their computer or texting on their cell phones.”
he Greene County Tech School Handbook has a section regarding “electronic acts of bullying.” The handbook states this is prohibited whether the act was at school or off campus; or whether or not the act was meant to be directed toward a faculty member or another student; or maliciously intended to disrupt school or create a hostile environment.

The handbook encourages students and faculty to reports instances of bullying to the principal and they can do so anonymously. The principal is responsible for investigating the incident to determine if disciplinary action is warranted. Those who report bullying will not be subject to retaliation in any form.

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Cell Phone Safety

Today’s cellular phones (cell phones) are more than just phones, they are hightech appliances that also serve as a mini-computers. Cell phones are electronic gadgets that allow users to surf the web, conduct text chats with others, take photos, record video, download and listen to music, play games, update blogs, send instant text messages to others, keep a calendar and to-do list, and more, much more. But cell phones also carry risks and cause distractions.

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The fact that cell phones pose a great risk when combined with
driving cannot be of any surprise to anyone. Let’s face it. First,
drivers must take their eyes off the road while dialing. Second, people
can become so absorbed in their conversations or other cell phone use
that their ability to concentrate on the act of driving is severely
impaired, jeopardizing the safety of vehicle occupants and pedestrians
alike.
Time Away from Homework. Technology affords teens (and adults) a
host of ways to do something other than what they are supposed to, in
this case homework.
Mounting Minutes ($$$)

Since consumers must be 18 in order to purchase a cell phone contract
in the United States, most parents are buying the phones their children
carry. This is good news because parents can choose a plan that fits how
the cell phone will be used and can review monthly cell phone bills
which typically includes a log itemizing phone activity. However,
problems still exist. For one, children can quickly go over their
allotted minutes for the month which can leave their parents with bills
that can easily approach hundreds of dollars for the month.
Cell Phones and Gaming

According to Sullivan (2004)³, when cellular phone games
were simple, such as the knockoffs of the Atari-era "Breakout," there
wasn't much to worry about. But newer phones with color displays and
higher processing power create a landscape that might make some parents
worried about what their kids are playing on the bus home from school.

Cell phones as Learning Tools

Craik School in Saskatchewan Canada is exploring the use of cellphones as learning tools. This video highlights the work of Carla Dolman and Gord Taylor and the grade 8 and 9 students of Craik School.

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Humiliation and gossip are weapons of the cyberbully

As more and more people have access to computers and mobile phones, a new risk to youngsters has begun to emerge. Electronic aggression, in the form of threatening text messages and the spread of online rumours on social networking sites, is a growing concern.

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ead teachers are being advised to draw up new rules on mobile phone use amid a growing number of cases of what is now known as “cyber-bullying”. In many secondary schools, over 90% of bullying cases are through text messages or internet chatrooms. It is hoped that the rules about mobile phone use will protect children from abusive texts, stop phones going off in class and prevent mobiles being taken into exam halls.
Although the majority of kids who are harassed online aren’t physically bothered in person, the cyber-bully still takes a heavy emotional toll on his or her victims. Kids who are targeted online are more likely to get a detention or be suspended, skip school and experience emotional distress, the medical journal reports. Teenagers who receive rude or nasty comments via text messages are six times more likely to say they feel unsafe at school.
The problem is that bullying is still perceived by many educators and parents as a problem that involves physical contact. Most enforcement efforts focus on bullying in school classrooms, corridors and toilets. But given that 80% of adolescents use mobile phones or computers, “social interactions have increasingly moved from personal contact at school to virtual contact in the chatroom,'’ write Kirk R. Williams and Nancy G. Guerra, co-authors of one of the journal reports. “Internet bullying has emerged as a new and growing form of social cruelty.'’
Cyber-bullying tactics include humiliation, destructive messages, gossip, slander and other “virtual taunts” communicated through e-mail, instant messaging, chatrooms and blogs. The problem, of course, is what to do about it. While most schools do not allow pupils to use their mobiles in the school building, an outright ban is deemed unworkable. Advances in technology are throwing up new problems for teachers to deal with. Children use their phones to listen to music, tell the time or as a calculator.

Cyber-bullies sometimes disclose victims' personal data on websites or forums, or may even attempt to assume the identity of their victim for the purpose of publishing material in their name that defames them or exposes them to ridicule.

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Kids online? Cox Survey: Contact with strangers is not unusual.

One in five of the nation's wired "tweens" -- kids ages 8 to 12 -- has posted personal information on the Internet, and more than a fourth have been contacted online by strangers, a poll released Tuesday found.

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One in 10 of these preteenagers has responded to and chatted online with strangers, according to the Tween Internet Safety Survey, sponsored by Cox Communications and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
90 percent of American kids have used the Internet by age 9 and more than a third of 11- and 12-year-olds have a profile on social-network sites such as MySpace and Facebook.
Of the tweens with social-network profiles, 61 percent post personal photos online, 48 percent admit to posting a fake age online and 51 percent have received messages from people they didn't know.
The survey showed tweens' online presence doubles or even triples among 8- to 10-year-olds and 11- and 12-year-olds: The 42 percent of children 8 to 10 with personal e-mail accounts increases to 71 percent for those 11 and 12, for instance, and 41 percent of 11- and 12-year-olds have an instant-messaging screen name, compared with 15 percent for kids 8 to 10.
Half of the 11- and 12-year-olds have their own cell phones -- used for text messaging and taking and transmitting digital photos as well as for traditional calling -- while 19 percent of those 8 to 10 have their own cell phones.

For teens, the future is mobile

Marketers convened in San Francisco this week to figure out how best to reach teens on the Internet. The answer: It's all about the mobile phone.

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AT&T Smart Limits

AT&T Smart Limits™ brings together information about parental control features across AT&T's wireless, wired, broadband and video service. Includes tools in four areas: Wireless Smart, Surf Smart, Watch Smart and Talk Smart.

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Warning raises new fears of cell-phone risks

A warning from the head of a prominent cancer research institute has rekindled fears about the possible health risks associated with extensive cell-phone use, especially among children--and it comes as a growing number of children are using cell phones to communicate.

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Stop text bullying

For kids, bullying by mobile phone or PC is a real and growing problem. This NCH and Tesco Mobile sponsored site is designed to help teachers, young people and parents understand and prevent text bullying.

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Nude pictures lead to arrests

<b>More evidence that kids do not understand what is private in a networked society. </b><br>Police have used a law intended to keep pornographic magazines away from children as the basis for arresting four middle-school students accused of using cell phone cameras to snap nude photos of themselves and exchanging the images. Your students should know that exchange of nude photos [another form of cyberbullying] falls under "child pornography" laws and if prosecuted to the full extent of the law, they could spend time in juvenile hall and be forced to register as a sex offender for the rest of their life.

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The Nokia Lolitas

A combustible mix of minors, sex and technology.

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Sexting: fears as teens targeted

The new mobile phone phenomenon, dubbed "sexting", led to 32 Victorian [Australia] teenagers being charged with child pornography offences last year.

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Teens Engage in Sexting

A new, dangerous trend is growing among teenagers: text messaging explicit photos of themselves, also known as sexting. Students as young as 12 are exchanging salacious pictures and messages through their cellphones.

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The Road to Cybersafety

Webcams, cell phone cameras being put to troubling use, experts say. George Orwell, “1984” author, was right about a couple of things: Cameras are everywhere in the future, and people are watching. The latest hand-held digital gadgets are often packaged with serious camera hardware. People are taking pictures, lots of them, and then uploading them as permanent displays in the Internet collection.

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Carrill is part of the Platte County Sheriff’s Office. He also leads the Western Missouri Cyber Crimes Task Force. One of his primary missions is to track down and arrest online predators who trade in child pornography.

And all these cameras only make his job more challenging. About 40 percent of the nation’s minors have access to Webcams, Carrill explained, devices for uploading live video to the Internet. About 65 percent of all children have access to cell phone cameras.
Between sexual predators who fish for images and immature decisions by kids with cameras, more children are either having their images posted online or being exposed to pornography, according to a 2006 report by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
erhaps the biggest issue is that fact that kids don’t understand that when a picture is posted online, it’s nearly impossible to remove.

“Once that image is taken, it’s out there forever,” Shehan said. “The No. 1 issue that we’ve seen with Webcams is teenagers self-producing pornography.”
All we can tell them is, ‘I’m sorry,’” Carrill said. “The minute the camera clicks, you no longer own that image. It has the potential to harm that person years from now.”

A Webcam placed in a child’s bedroom is another bad combination, according to Shehan and Carrill. Sexual predators search for kids who use Webcams in the privacy of their own rooms, then lure or blackmail the child into providing pictures of themselves.

“We see cases time after time of children who take pictures, send them to a predator and get a pornographic collage back that the predator uses to blackmail the child into providing more images,” Shehan said.
Half of the respondents said they’d witnessed unethical or dangerous behavior by their kids while they were online. About two-thirds thought that their kids would reveal personal information while using the Internet. Nearly 90 percent admitted that they don’t consider the Internet safe.

The results indicate an unsettling gap between parents and their kids when it comes to the Internet, according to Scarfino.

“I believe that they feel that their kids have a sense of security online that they don’t feel,” Scarfino said.
All parents should follow a few basic rules when it comes to cyber safety, according to experts:

- Keep computers in common areas of the home.

- Monitor Internet use by children.

- Enable privacy protection software.

- Turn Webcams off or protect them with a password.

- Track what images are being uploaded by children in the household.

- Talk to children about what is appropriate.

Cell Phone Porn Scandal hits US School

Police tried to stop the spread of pornographic video and photos of two U.S. high school girls, images that were transmitted by cell phone to dozens of the girls' classmates and then to the wider world.

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BVSD limits searches of students' cell phones

The American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado got involved in October, sending a letter to district officials accusing them of “committing felonies” by violating students’ rights.

“Monarch administrators have been unjustifiably violating students’ rights of privacy by unreasonably confiscating their cell phones and reading and transcribing students’ text messages,” the October letter read.

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Protecting Children from Adult Content on Wireless Devices

With the benefits of wireless technology comes a potential harm: the growing use of wireless phones and devices by children affords them the opportunity to access adult material that may be inappropriate for them.

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What You Can Do

If you are concerned about your children
accessing adult material from their wireless phones/devices,
consider the following:
- Monitor how your children are using their
  wireless phones or other wireless devices. For example, are they
  using them mainly for talking, or are they using them for
  messaging, taking photos and downloading applications?
- Check with your carrier to see what types
  of material it offers and what types can be accessed from your
  children’s handsets.
- Check with your carrier to see if there are
  ways to prevent access to and downloading of content that may
  contain inappropriate material and that is available on a
  per-use or per-application basis (e.g., games, wall paper
  images, songs).
- Monitor your bill. Any content purchases
  made from a wireless phone should appear on your monthly bill,
  so check your bill to see if any purchases have been made from
  your children’s phones/devices. The FCC requires that the
  descriptions of charges on wireless carrier bills be full,
  clear, non-deceptive, and in plain language.
- Check with your carrier to see what
  handsets are available for your children that are not capable of
  accessing advanced applications that may contain adult material.
- Check with your carrier to see whether
  subscriptions to wireless data or wireless Internet packages
  also offer access to adult material on your children’s phone.
you are concerned about your children
accessing adult material from their wireless phones/devices,
consider the following:
- Monitor how your children are using their
  wireless phones or other wireless devices. For example, are they
  using them mainly for talking, or are they using them for
  messaging, taking photos and downloading applications?
- Check with your carrier to see what types
  of material it offers and what types can be accessed from your
  children’s handsets.
- Check with your carrier to see if there are
  ways to prevent access to and downloading of content that may
  contain inappropriate material and that is available on a
  per-use or per-application basis (e.g., games, wall paper
  images, songs).
- Monitor your bill. Any content purchases
  made from a wireless phone should appear on your monthly bill,
  so check your bill to see if any purchases have been made from
  your children’s phones/devices. The FCC requires that the
  descriptions of charges on wireless carrier bills be full,
  clear, non-deceptive, and in plain language.
- Check with your carrier to see what
  handsets are available for your children that are not capable of
  accessing advanced applications that may contain adult material.
- Check with your carrier to see whether
  subscriptions to wireless data or wireless Internet packages
  also offer access to adult material on your children’s phone.
- Visit
  
  http://www.wiredsafety.org/, the Web site of an organization
  described as an online safety, education, and help group,
  including helping parents keep online pornography away from
  their kids.

Cell phone cameras in the K-12 classroom: Punishable offenses or student-citizen journalism?

Take a look at the seven YouTube videos below, all taken by student cell phone cameras in classrooms. Do we want students bringing to public attention these types of classroom incidents? Should students be punished or applauded for filming and posting these?

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Spying on the Text Generation

When it comes to watching over their tech-obsessed teenagers, parents are learning the dangers of too much information. Having the ability to monitor and knowing how to is important. But sometimes the threat of intervention [Don' t give me reason to...] is better than actual intervention.

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Humiliation and gossip are weapons of the cyberbully

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For teens, the future is mobile

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Warning raises new fears of cell-phone risks

Stop text bullying

Nude pictures lead to arrests

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