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Shocking stats, video on texting while driving |
When it comes to texting while driving, teens are a particular risk group considering that, according to Nielsen (PDF), "The average U.S. mobile teen now sends or receives an average of 2,899 text-messages per month" and apparently some of those texts are being sent and read from behind the wheel.
Texting While Driving [PSA]
A rather frightening PSA targeting teens and the dangers of texting while driving.
Ending the national panic on 'sexting' - Los Angeles Times
As the prevalence of sexting cases continue to come to light, many states are grappling to determine an appropriate punishment for this frightening new trend. With no federal law on the books, kids committing the same act in different states are finding themselves facing drastically different, sometimes life-altering, punishments.
Teen Online & Wireless Safety Survey [PDF]
Cox Communications commissioned Harris Interactive to conduct a survey among U.S. teens ages 13-18. Key objectives of this study were to:
•Examine teen’s online and cell phone behavior, specifically regarding:
• Sending sexually suggestive text messages ore emails
• Bullying others online or by text message
•Understand the relationship between teens and their parents regarding parental controls for the Internet
•Uncover how and why teens go online on their cell phone <br>
Download the complete 60-page report.
1 in 5 teens 'sext' despite risks
A new survey on kids in cyberspace finds that one in five teens have "sexted" - sent or received sexually suggestive, nude or nearly nude photos through cellphone text messages or e-mail.Most teens who sexted sent the photos to girlfriends or boyfriends, but 11% sent them to strangers, according to the study made public today by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children and Cox Communications. Of teens who sext, 80% are under 18, the survey found.
Messaging Shakespeare | Classroom Examples |
Summarizing complex texts using cell phones increases understanding.
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Brown's class was discussing some of the whaling calculations in Moby Dick. When one student asked a question involving a complex computation, three students quickly pulled out their cell phones and did the math. Brown was surprised to learn that most cell phones have a built-in calculator. She was even more surprised at how literate her students were with the many functions included in their phones. She took a quick poll and found that all her students either had a cell phone or easy access to one. In fact, students became genuinely engaged in a class discussion about phone features. This got Brown thinking about how she might incorporate this technology into learning activities.
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- Effective summarizing is one of the most powerful skills students can cultivate. It provides students with tools for identifying the most important aspects of what they are learning, especially when teachers use a frame of reference (Marzano, Pickering, & Pollock, 2001).
- Summarizing helps students identify critical information. Research shows gains in reading comprehension when students learn how to incorporate isummary framesi (series of questions designed to highlight critical passages) as a tool for summarizing (Meyer & Freedle, 1984).
- When students use this strategy, they are better able to understand what they are reading, identify key information, and provide a summary that helps them retain the information (Armbruster, Anderson, & Ostertag, 1987).
Brown noticed that many students used text messaging to communicate, and considered how she might use cell phones in summarizing and analyzing text to help her students better understand Richard III.
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Kidscape Advice: Cyberbullying/Cybersafety Issues
Kidscape is the first charity in the UK established specifically to prevent bullying and child sexual abuse. Their site offers cyberbullying advice for kids on Text/Video Messaging, Chatrooms & IM, Email and cyberbullying done via web sites.
CyberSafe with Steve Dotto
From British Columbia. This collection of short videos, hosted by computer guru Steve Dotto, demonstrates how kids use the Internet and explains the responsibilities of being an effective parent in the Digital Age.
School CyberSafety Presentation Leads to Arrest of Miami Man
Attorney General Bill McCollum today announced that a Miami man is in custody on charges of sexual battery on a child. Acting on a tip received from a Clay County student at one of the Attorney General’s CyberSafety presentations, deputies from Clay County Sheriff Rick Beseler’s Office arrested Anthony Alexander Caldara, a mechanic serving active duty in the U.S. Navy, for sexually abusing a young girl. The tip was reported by the victim’s older sister to an investigator with the Attorney General’s CyberCrime Unit.
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Attorney General Bill McCollum today announced that a Miami man is in custody on charges of sexual battery on a child. Acting on a tip received from a Clay County student at one of the Attorney General’s CyberSafety presentations, deputies from Clay County Sheriff Rick Beseler’s Office arrested Anthony Alexander Caldara, a mechanic serving active duty in the U.S. Navy, for sexually abusing a young girl. The tip was reported by the victim’s older sister to an investigator with the Attorney General’s CyberCrime Unit.
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The older sister, a student at a local Clay County junior high school, approached the CyberCrime investigator after attending the Attorney General’s CyberSafety presentation. She reported to the investigator that she and her younger sister had been communicating with Caldara, 21, via cell phone and text messaging and Caldara had sent the children pornography. The two children eventually met Caldara in real life and a subsequent investigation revealed Caldara sexually abused the younger sister.
A Teen Talks About Texting and What Parents/Educators Need to Know About it
For “real” answers about why and how kids text, we went to a pro - a teen who’s been texting for years. Jasmine Gregory, 17, discusses her texting habits and offers advice to concerned parents/educators
Tosa East student arrested, fined for repeated texting
Wauwatosa East High School resource officer who made the arrest says the student refused to stop texting during class Feb. 11 after a teacher told her to stop and the student told the resource officer she didn't have a phone. She continued denying she had a phone, forcing the resource officer to walk back and forth to the classroom twice and find other students who saw her using it, according to the report
Schools stand up to bullies
The crackdown on schoolyard bullying in recent years has increased awareness of problems at our public schools involving degrading comments, intimidation and violence. But the problem is still out there and, thanks to the Internet and cell phones, has taken on a whole new dimension. Some of our children are now taunted and harassed not just at school, but electronically with inappropriate text messages, e-mails and Web site postings.
Text Unto Others... As You Would Have Them Text Unto You
Schools can teach basic principles of good citizenship to help shape students' behavior in the virtual world.
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t's nothing anyone would have thought necessary to
do only a decade ago, but the concept of citizenship no
longer exists only within the realm of the physical world.
With K-12 students seeming to at all times have one foot
in the real world and one in the virtual, school districts
are starting to acknowledge a new collective responsibility:
to teach kids what it means to be a good digital citizen
and how to go about being one. The answer follows the
same rules entrenched in the prescription for being a
good citizen on the ground: Obey the law, have respect
for others, act civilly and sensibly.
Are texting, other media replacing e-mail?
A pair of 2007 studies conducted by the Pew Internet & American Life Project showed that teens are steadily drifting away from the "old-fashioned medium" of e-mail. While 92 percent of surveyed adults said they regularly used e-mail, only 16 percent of teens made it a part of daily life while text messaging (36 percent), instant messaging (29 percent) and social network site messaging (23 percent) gained in popularity. As teens, 20-somethings and, increasingly, other generations bypass their in-box in favor of other formats, is e-mail endangered?
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