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Online "predators" and their victims: Myths, realities, and implications for prevention and treatment.
The publicity about online "predators" who prey on naive children using trickery and violence is largely inaccurate.
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Online Manners Matter | Edutopia
forward-thinking educators are working to teach all-around netiquette. These nascent rules -- from acceptable-use policies created by school districts to guide students on the Internet to basic manners instructions for students with school email accounts -- have begun to show up in official documents.
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Children recruited by federal police to solve online crime | Herald Sun
CHILDREN as young as 14 have been recruited by police to help fight online crime, because they have more internet skills than agents.
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Teens use technology to party in strangers' pools
Tech savvy teens are using Google Earth’s splendidly clear aerial shots of the UK to launch a summertime craze – pool crashing.
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Minimizing Classroom Disruptions
A collection of archives to help you leverage technology’s potential for education, while minimizing classroom disruptions. We hope you’llfind these resources helpful as you seek an appropriate balance in your own institutions.
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SchoolTube
"SchoolTube.com, a website for K-12 schools that blocks out inappropriate videos through an innovative Chain of Accountability process."
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DrJim's Blog - realistic look at internet safety
Online "predators" and their victims: Myths, realities, and implications for prevention and treatment.
By Wolak, Janis; Finkelhor, David; Mitchell, Kimberly J.; Ybarra, Michele L.
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Study Debunks Web Predator Myths
"Don't believe the hype."It's not just Flavor Flav's catchphrase, it's good advice for parents, teachers, police, and anyone else concerned about the threat of Internet predators.
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Text messaging a sign of mental illness!?
“Using data from 2006, the South Korean government estimates that approximately 210,000 South Korean children (2.1 per cent; ages 6-19) are afflicted and require treatment,” he said.
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A safe social network for Schools
LL4Schools provides a safe environment for schools to use blogging with their pupils while at the same time providing students with a global audience.
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Rick Rolled to child pr0n = you're a pedophile, says FBI
Such is the case with Temple University doctoral student Roderick Vosburgh, who apparently clicked on an FBI-planted hyperlink somewhere on the Internet.
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Australian families with children are 'media-rich', research finds
The Media and Communications in Australian Families 2007 report surveyed a representative sample of 751 family households with children aged between 8 and 17, to view their children’s use of media and communications technologies.
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Over Reaction to Australia's Plans to Clean up the Internet?
It’s not just about the kids. Heck, I’m an adult and I don’t want porn and violence impinging on my enjoyment of the internet.
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Australia Joins China In Censoring The Internet
Worst still, bloggers or those (such as forum owners) who allow users to comment or post could find themselves blocked under this proposal should someone say or post the wrong thing. I
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Free Speech and the Constitution in Australia
Censorship laws may also be used to prevent freedom of speech by restricting distribution of certain films and publications.
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Onus on providers to clean up web content
Under the plan, all internet service providers will have to provide a "clean" feed to households and schools, free of pornography and other "inappropriate" material.
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Glubble World
Website recommendations for under 12s by the Glubble web browser crowd.
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Kids, the Internet, and the End of Privacy: The Greatest Generation Gap Since Rock and Roll
As younger people reveal their private lives on the Internet, the older generation looks on with alarm and misapprehension not seen since the early days of rock and roll. The future belongs to the uninhibited.
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Technology & Media
Mainstream media has provided a deluge of articles and television reports concerning youth risk in online social networking communities, such as MySpace, YouTube, etc. This article describes clearly these communities, outline risks and provide guidance.
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NetSmartz.org
Every year more and more children of all ages go online to study, have fun, and communicate with the world at large. The NetSmartz Site is an interactive, educational safety resource with 3D activities to teach children how to stay safer on the Internet.
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