As summer draws to a close and parents ready their homes for the start of another school year, it’s the ideal time to discuss digital citizenship and responsible internet usage practices with kids. This digital workshop from the Verizon Foundation and Frontline entitled, ‘Advice for Parents,’ focuses on digital parenting. Anne Collier, web safety expert and editor of www.netfamilynews.org, emphasizes that while parents cannot remove all risks from a child’s life online, they can empower and educate children to be responsible social web users. And, in fact, this empowerment and education is a vital part of their cognitive development.
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Internet Safety and You is an interactive online resource aimed at helping students and families become safe and responsible Internet users. Featuring Garfield the cat and his friends, kids and teens work through four learning modules that address online safety, cyberbullying, forms of media, and distinguishing fact from opinion. They learn important concepts through an engaging narrative-based animated segment. Then they collaborate with Garfield and his friends for guided practice. Finally, they apply what they have learned through interactive challenges. Additional resources for parents and teachers ensure that kids and teens have the additional support they need.
The site also features an online Safety Teacher’s Guide with the following objectives:
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In 2002, Donna Rice Hughes became the chairman and president of Enough Is Enough, continuing to champion the cause as online technologies continued to emerge, develop, and merge. Recently, The Verizon Foundation has joined with Enough Is Enough in support of their Internet Safety 101 program. Internet Safety 101 is a multi-media resource that educates, equips and empowers parents, educators and other caring adults with the knowledge and resources needed to effectively protect kids from pornography, sexual predators and cyberbullies, as well as how to keep kids safe on social networking sites, gaming and mobile devices.
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A longtime advocate for internet safety, Donna Rice Hughes was on the front lines of the battle when it was just beginning. In 1994, she began working with Enough Is Enough, an advocacy group launched in 1992 with the aim of targeting illegal pornography and helping those who have been exploited by it. Early on, the organization noticed that pedophiles and predators were taking full advantage of pre-internet chat rooms and newsgroups at the dawning of the cyber age, and changed its focus, setting its sights on preventing and stopping the exploitation of children and women that was taking place in these burgeoning new forums.
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Android devices are definitely hot these days. Not only are the devices themselves pretty cool, but there are also a wide range of great apps and games available in the Android Market. What do parents need to know? Although Verizon customers are able to access the Android Market on Android phones, the store is actually run by Google. Google sets the policies regarding what types of content may be included in apps provided through the store, and it also determines which apps are available. Verizon, however, offers tools that parents may use to help control the types of content accessible through the Android devices used by their children. Verizon is the only wireless company that provides content filtering tools on
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The Verizon Foundation and Frontline developed a series of digital workshops for parents. This series of interactive resources will help parents deepen their knowledge of how digital technology is transforming our society and to gain insights into understanding, analyzing and participating in our technology-infused world.
The digital workshops include activities for adults to learn how to manage their family’s media usage, to become a better caregiver to the “digital natives” in their lives, to assess the impact of technology in education, and to explore the effects of multitasking on our brains and much more.
The second digital workshop in this seri
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The Verizon Foundation and Frontline developed a series of digital workshops for parents. This series of interactive resources will help parents deepen their knowledge of how digital technology is transforming our society and to gain insights into understanding, analyzing and participating in our technology-infused world.
The digital workshops include activities for adults to learn how to manage their family’s media usage, to become a better caregiver to the “digital natives” in their lives, to assess the impact of technology in education, and to explore the effects of multitasking on our brains and much more.
The first digital workshop in this serie
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With support from the Verizon Foundation, for the past 10 months PBS FRONTLINE and the production team at “Digital Nation,” have been exploring how digital media and the Web transformed virtually every aspect of the way we live. From the way we learn and work to the ways in which we socialize and even conduct war, nothing has had more of an impact on a single generation. But is the technology moving faster than we can adapt to it?
The answers to these questions will be explored in the broadcast premiere of PBS’s new multiplatform documentary “Digital Nation: Life on the Virtual Frontier
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“Sexting”: a new word in the digital lexicon. And a hot button issue that has piqued the curiosity, ire and concern of everyone from parents to school administrators to policymakers to law enforcement and understandably, mobile carriers such as us. As you may already know, sexting is generally defined as the act of sending sexually explicit photos via cell phones (or over other electronic devices, including computers).
In and of itself, the idea of children sexting is eyebrow-raising. Add to the equation a sender or receiver who is under the age of eighteen and suddenly a problem of ever-growing proportions begins to unfold. Getting the word out to kids about the possible ramifications of sexting is the key. Child pornography charges, a jail sentence and having to register as a sex offender should deter them from sending a racy photo of themselves or someone else. And, even if these legal repercussions were to disappear, the emotional fallout would remain as wou
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WHAT: As defined on StopCyberbullying.org, cyberbullying is when a child, preteen or teen is tormented, threatened, harassed, humiliated, embarrassed or otherwise targeted by another child, preteen or teen using the Internet, interactive and digital technologies or mobile phones.
WHEN: Anytime. A bully can get to whomever s/he wants at any time as long as the victim has an email, IM login, social networking profile, or a cell phone.
WHERE: Most anywhere. Just like a cyberbully can attack at any time, they can also victimize someone wherever they are due to the sheer pervasiveness of the Internet and mobile phones in our daily culture.
WHO: Anyone can be affected by cyberbullying. Sometimes bullies and victims ar
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