By Lynette Owens
Week of July 22, 2013
To help you keep up with what’s going on with kids, families, schools, and technology, we’ve compiled a list of interesting stories our team’s been reading over the past week. What have you been reading? Tell us below or Tweet @TrendISKF
- David Cameron’s ban on porn in the UK in the interest of children is met with criticism based on a review of other country’s attempts to choose censorship first
- Techcrunch also weighed in, calling the ban in the UK “ridiculous”
- NEW STUDY: In other news, a recent study shows young people increased the amount of media they consumed by more than one hour and a half to almost 7½ a day between 2004 and 2009, which means teaching kids to use the Internet safely and responsibly is more important than ever
- And lastly, is Facebook still hip with teens? Facebook says yes, but a Pew Internet study says otherwise. A few perspectives:
- Facebook Q2 earnings comments
- Pew study on Teens and Social Media
See you next week!
Lynette Owens is Vice President of Global Consumer Education & Marketing at Trend Micro and Founder of the Internet Safety for Kids and Families program. With 25+ years in the tech industry, Lynette speaks and blogs regularly on how to help kids become great digital citizens. She works with communities and 1:1 school districts across the U.S. and around the world to support online safety, digital and media literacy and digital citizenship education. She is a board member of the National Association for Media Literacy Education, an advisory committee member of the Digital Wellness Lab, and serves on the advisory boards of INHOPE and U.S. Safer Internet Day.
Follow her on Twitter @lynettetowens.