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Anne Bubnic's List: Digital Citizenship/Mobile Safety
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Mar 12, 10
FOSI and The Wireless Foundation Conference/ Wireless Online Safety: Keeping Kids Safe in a Mobile Environment
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Mar 12, 10
Cyberbullying, people making inappropriate contact, access to unsuitable content or ‘free’ ring tones that lead to very high phone bills can be a problem. Privacy is also important. In the same way you protect your privacy online it’s important not to share private/ personal details or photos using your mobile phone. It’s easy to forward SMS messages and photos but you never know where they might end up.
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Mar 12, 10
Promotional video from ThinkuKnow Promotional film for an 8 minute animation introducing Lee & Kim, a brother and sister navigating the online world with the help of their trusted superhero friend SID! The video has been created for kids (age 5-7) so they understand how to keep safe online, to treat each other well, and to understand what personal information is.
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Mar 12, 10
My Mobile Watchdog is a parenting tool that gives you the information necessary to effectively talk with your children about safety threats and potential dangers. It logs and stores copies of all mobile phone activity, including text messages, phone calls, e-mails, picture messages.
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Sep 02, 09
Social networking has all the rage among teenagers even preteens but how can you make sure that what your kids are doing online doesn't turn into outrage. Robin Raskin of Living in Digital Times provides tips and resources for keeping kids safe online.
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Aug 30, 09
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.
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Aug 26, 09
A rather frightening PSA targeting teens and the dangers of texting while driving.
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Mar 12, 10
The first study of drivers texting inside their vehicles shows that the risk sharply exceeds previous estimates based on laboratory research — and far surpasses the dangers of other driving 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.
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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.
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Mar 12, 10
After reviewing the positives and negatives of cell phones and cell phone usage safety tips, students will explore a scenario in which a friendly relationship turns to a bullying one involving cell phones and computers.
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Mar 12, 10
As part of Sound Transit's safety outreach for Link light rail, Sound Transit asked Seattle area high school students to develop short films that educated their peers about staying safe around Link...
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Feb 06, 09
From the National Teenage Dating Abuse Helpline. Your cell phone, IM, and social networks are all a digital extension of who you are. When someone you're with pressures you or disrespects you in those places, that's not cool.
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Mar 13, 10
What is tXt Learning?
Trivia by phone. It’s mobile education for students in GR 6-12 that finds you where you are. Questions cover math, English, science, Spanish and college prep. And all are provided by the National Education Association. New questions are sent everyday.
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Mar 13, 10
When is a phone not a phone? In the hands of children and tweens, today’s cell phones are primarily used as text messaging devices, cameras, gaming consoles, video viewers, MP3 players, and incidentally, as mobile phones via the speaker capability so their friends can chime in on the call. Parents are getting dialed in to the social media phenomenon and beginning to understand—and limit—how children use new media
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Mobile devices represent a major impetus behind the social media movement, driving part of the 250% audience increase for the year ending February 2009. Teens represented 19% of the 12.3 million active social networkers.
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To adults, cell phones are a communications device. To children, they are a lifeline. Consider that the average 13-17 year old sends more than 2,000 text messages per month. Compared with the total mobile Internet population, teens are much bigger consumers of social media, music, games, videos/movies and technology/science.
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Mar 18, 10
This 54-page downloadable booklet from the FTC and http://onguardonline.gov offers parents practical advice for talking with their kids about socializing/communicating online, file sharing, privacy and socializing/communicating on the go (mobile phones).
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