A just-released survey of more than 25,000 9-to-16-year-olds (and one of each child's parents) in 25 European countries recommends that Internet companies "provide more ways for children to block, filter or report alarming online content and contacts," yet only a little over a quarter (28%) of families surveyed actually use such tech tools. According to the study's press release, the findings … [Read more...] about Pan-European survey of 25,000 kids
Archives for January 2011
14-year-old’s app is No. 1
Robert Nay in Utah has been designing Web sites since the 3rd grade, but now he's seriously into designing cellphone apps. So seriously that a physics game called "Bubble Ball" which he designed recently moved up to the No. 1 free app in Apple's App Store, Spotlight on Digital Media & Learning reports. Apparently with some encouragement from his mom, "Nay taught himself programming after … [Read more...] about 14-year-old’s app is No. 1
More on multitasking
I recently posted on "Student multitasking: Embrace or erase?" and got two questions from two different vantage points on the subject. I was trying to be as brief as possible and still quote some important points in school administrator Matt Levinson's outstanding book From Fear to Facebook, because I'd already written a long post on digital breathing room (kind of the opposite of multitasking). … [Read more...] about More on multitasking
‘Tiger mother’ or not
I took my sons out for sushi the other night and, to my amazement, heard them telling me something very similar to what Susan Maushart, a New Yorker who was living in Western Australia, writes in her new book about totally unplugging her teenage kids for six months. My very social sons, 13 and 18, whom I have not unplugged, told me that "all this technology we [teenagers] constantly use is hurting … [Read more...] about ‘Tiger mother’ or not
A cyberbully’s explanation
A cyberbullying conviction in a US district court in Philadelphia starkly illustrates some important things. You might consider sharing this story at NJ.com with your kids and students. This was a particularly malicious act of cyberbullying, US District Judge Anita Brody said, so a lot of kids would probably say they'd never do such a thing and don't know anyone who would. But what they very well … [Read more...] about A cyberbully’s explanation