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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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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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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The fist bump over the handshake. Hottie over hunk. The Jonas Brothers over well pretty much anyone else. Your kids don’t need to be told what’s “in”. They already know because they are the ones creating the trends. That puts them squarely in the driver’s seat – whether they are 16 yet or not – of anything and everything on the cutting edge.
Right now that cutting edge revolves around anything technological, interactive and increasingly wireless. All of this is like second nature to your kids and their peers, while you might feel like you are repeatedly playing catch up. That’s why it is imperative for you to take the wheel and guide them as you have in every other aspect of their upbringing.
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WHAT:
StopCyberbullying.org defines cyberbullying as 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 whom
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Doing what, you ask? Sexting. It’s the buzz word for the passing around of nude photos via cell phone, an extremely risky activity that some 20% of teens have engaged in, according to a recent survey from the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy.
For those of you who might be curious about what the big deal is over sexting, think about this: Anyone taking, sending, or keeping nude or sexually explicit phot
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