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AOL’s two new, easy-to-use safety tools

August 30, 2010 By Anne 3 Comments

Not many Internet companies know more about parental controls than AOL, which has been providing a range of them longer than I've been writing about youth and tech (since '97!). So I was interested to hear that AOL was releasing two very Web 2.0 tools, one free, the other $9.99/month. First the free one: 1. Safety Toolbar This light little software app, which AOL says takes about a minute to … [Read more...] about AOL’s two new, easy-to-use safety tools

Filed Under: Risk & Safety, Social Media, Web 2.0 Tagged With: AOL, filtering, monitoring, parental controls, reputation protection

Monitoring apps for kids’ cellphones

August 13, 2010 By Anne 1 Comment

Parental control apps for cellphones – either downloadable ones or the controls provided by the carriers themselves – aren't new, but their numbers are growing. The toughest nut to crack in this category, according to the Wall Street Journal, has been monitoring kids' texts and calls, but that's changing too. "Due to privacy concerns ... carriers can't monitor the content of text messages and … [Read more...] about Monitoring apps for kids’ cellphones

Filed Under: mobile, Social Media Tagged With: cellphones, CellSafety, Kid Phone Advocate, mobile apps, monitoring, Safe Social Norton Online Family

A new kind of online kid monitoring

May 26, 2010 By Anne 2 Comments

Kid online safety needs to be a conversation. You know what I mean. The part of the Net that really interests youth is the user-driven, social part that is, by definition, unruly. SO safety on it is an ongoing conversation at home and school, in the community, among policymakers, etc., and any tool or talking point promoting that conversation promotes safety. SafetyWeb could just be considered a … [Read more...] about A new kind of online kid monitoring

Filed Under: Parenting, Risk & Safety, Social Media Tagged With: monitoring, online safety, Parenting, SafetyWeb

The school district that logged 13,000 photos of students’ homes

May 7, 2010 By Anne 1 Comment

The Webcam security program of a Pennsylvania school district being sued by parents for spying on students with school-supplied laptops captured "nearly 13,000 images" of the insides of students' homes, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports. But a report presented at a school board meeting this week said that "there's no evidence" the district used the laptops to spy on students "despite its … [Read more...] about The school district that logged 13,000 photos of students’ homes

Filed Under: education technology, School & Tech, school policy Tagged With: 21st century learning, Lower Merion School, monitoring, school administrators, school laptop program, Webcam security

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IMPORTANT RESOURCES

Our (DIGITAL) PARENTING BASICS: Safety + Social
NAMLE, the National Association for Media Literacy Education
CASEL.org & the 5 core social-emotional competencies of SEL
Center for Democracy & Technology
Center for Innovative Public Health Research
Childnet International
Committee for Children
Congressional Internet Caucus Academy
ConnectSafely.org
Control Shift: a pivotal book for Internet safety
Crimes Against Children Research Center
Crisis Textline
Cyber Civil Rights Initiative's Revenge Porn Crisis Line
Cyberwise.org
danah boyd's blog and book about networked youth
Disconnected, Carrie James's book on digital ethics
FOSI.org's Good Digital Parenting
The research of Global Kids Online
The Good Project at Harvard's School of Education
If you watch nothing else: "Parenting in a Digital Age" TED Talk by Prof. Sonia Livingstone
The International Bullying Prevention Association
Let Grow Foundation
Making Caring Common
Raising Digital Natives, author Devorah Heitner's site
Renee Hobbs at the Media Education Lab
MediaSmarts.ca
The New Media Literacies
Report of the Aspen Task Force on Learning & the Internet and our guide to Creating Trusted Learning Environments
The Ruler Approach to social-emotional learning (Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence)
Sources of Strength
"Young & Online: Perspectives on life in a digital age" from young people in 26 countries (via UNICEF)
"Youth Safety on a Living Internet": 2010 report of the Online Safety & Technology Working Group (and my post about it)

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