By blocking social media in schools and monitoring our kids at home, we've been falling down on the job – our job of educating them about how to protect their own privacy in an increasingly networked world. Blocking and monitoring has taught them to develop workarounds, not good privacy practices. "We want our kids to fight isolation with networks," said father and pundit Cory Doctorow in this … [Read more...] about A parent/author/tech pundit’s view on how to teach kids privacy
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Teaching about sexting: Social Web lesson plan
Ever wonder how to teach young people about what can happen to information they post online? Canadian author and journalist Cory Doctorow has a great idea: show them on/with the Web. In a video interview he gave the European Commission's Net-safety program, Insafe, he talks about how we can now literally watch the diffusion of communication, behavior, and information in real time on the social Web … [Read more...] about Teaching about sexting: Social Web lesson plan