“We need to groom our children to be responsible citizens of the digital world, just as we do for the real world. The rules around dos and don’ts, respectful conduct and presenting our public self, all hold. We need to work out the specifics of what they mean in the digital context. As long as…
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Dave & Dujanovic: The dark web and its dangers for kids
Key Points (Draft): – Dark Web is a place to do unauthorized and criminal work – Not accessible by usual browsers that scan the WWW but by browsers like “Tor”,…
[Read More...]More than tools: who is responsible for the social dilemma?
Key Points: – Critique of the documentary “Social Dilemma” – This feature length documentary turns primarily to tech industry insiders, as well as a few computer scientists, economists, and social…
[Read More...]Take the Pledge to Help Keep Kids Safe Online
Key Points (Draft): – Internet Safety promotion through encouraging taking safety pledge on safetypledge.org; toolkit for parents – Initiative by National Center for Missing and Exploited Children to help keep…
[Read More...]Fortnite publisher Epic Games acquires kidtech pioneers SuperAwesome in move ‘to make the internet safer for kids’
Key Points (Draft): – Epic Games, the publisher behind the video gaming sensation Fortnite acquires SuperAwesome with plans to build build a wide range of kid-safe services – SuperAwesome is…
[Read More...]Internet crimes against children cyber tips tripled during pandemic
Key Points (Draft): – Online Safety and Cyber Crime against children related – NH reported triple the rate of Cyber Crime against children at the height of Covid – The…
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Google Tries to Make Android Tablets More Child Friendly With Kid’s Space
“The “Kids space” mode on your Android tablet, now serving age appropriate content to junior members of your household.” A common issue that a lot of tech companies have been…
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The Tech-Wise Family: Everyday Steps for Putting Technology in Its Proper Place by Andy Crouch
Choosing wonder over Wi-fi Andy Crouch’s book offers solutions to parenting kids offline in an online era. It covers several positive discipline approaches, from teaching children to see the beauty of a butterfly beyond the opiate fix of a screen, to keeping them safe from online porn. While not comprehensive in its approach, the advice in the book is simple and…
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A Parent’s Guide to Digital Safety for All Ages
Key Points (Draft): – Combination of parental self education – Choosing monitoring technologies – Instructing children (Elementary Age): – lay the groundwork for the future by talking about the importance of being nice to others and being a good friend since these are important concepts to build upon for that later conversation – Instructing children (Tweens) – 1/3 of tweens…
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A Parent’s Guide to Digital Safety for All Ages
Key Points (Draft): – Combination of parental self education – Choosing monitoring technologies – Instructing children (Elementary Age): – lay the groundwork for the future by talking about the importance of being nice to others and being a good friend since these are important concepts to build upon for that later conversation – Instructing children (Tweens) – 1/3 of tweens…
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Kids’ safety online a priority for Fortnite
The recent acquisition of SuperAwesome by Epic Games highlights the priority gaming companies are putting on kids’ safety online. Epic is the creator of Fortnite, a game with 350 million accounts and 2.5 billion friend connections. SuperAwesome is the pioneer in building infrastructure that enables zero-data internet. The acquisition’s primary goal is to build a wide range of kid-safe services.…
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Cyberbullying, more than bullying online
Bullying is as old as humanity. It is rooted in real or apparent power imbalances within relationships. Power imbalances can be about relative mental, physical or social strengths. Cyberbullying is bullying that takes place in digital spaces such as online chats, multiplayer games or social media. When do you know it is bullying? As a set of interactions or a…
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Family Link (2020), the Free Parental Control App
Among myriad Parental Control apps in the marketplace, Google Family Link has much to offer families with pre-teens having Android phones or Chromebooks. It empowers you to supervise effectively but stops short of sleuthing. And it does the work for Free. To monitor teens using the same features requires consent. To be able to use Google Family Link, you need…
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