US Rep. Anthony Weiner's very public personal disaster story has made sexting top-of-mind again, but there's good news in all this: More and more states are considering "relaxing penalties for teen sexting," as the Boston.com headline put it, because lawmakers throughout the US are now recognizing that "the problem of teen sexting didn’t exist when they enacted harsh punishments for child porn and … [Read more...] about The teen sexting ‘trainwreck’ & state laws
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How teachers Facebook & tweet for students
Facebook and Twitter are very different but social utilities just the same, so there are about as many ways teachers use them as there are teachers. And their creativity is truly inspiring. In his blog post "The Why and How of Using Facebook For Educators – No Need to be Friends At All!," Texas middle school teacher Ronnie Burt has a little graphic showing that 61% of educators have Facebook … [Read more...] about How teachers Facebook & tweet for students
Schools rethinking zero tolerance
Now, this is good news: "Nearly two decades after a zero-tolerance culture took hold in American schools, a growing number of educators and elected leaders are scaling back discipline policies that led to lengthy suspensions and ousters for such mistakes as carrying toy guns or Advil," the Washington Post reports. Launched by the Gun-Free Schools Act of 1994, during a period when being tough on … [Read more...] about Schools rethinking zero tolerance
‘Top 5 things parents should know about youth online’: Study
You know how realtors say it's all about "location, location, location"? That may be useful in the online context too, but what I'm hearing in a little video interview with Jane Burns, CEO of Australia's new Cooperative Research Center for Youth, Technology & Wellbeing (second one down on this page), is "conversation, conversation, conversation." See if you hear that too; here's a … [Read more...] about ‘Top 5 things parents should know about youth online’: Study
Top EU policymaker on trusting our online kids
It's amazing to hear a policymaker say this: "We cannot, and should not, put our children and youngsters in a digital glass cage, hoping they will never encounter any harmful or illegal content online. This will simply not work." That was Neelie Kroes, European Commission vice president and the EU's top legislator for digital issues, in a speech marking International Missing Children's Day (May … [Read more...] about Top EU policymaker on trusting our online kids