by Lynette Owens | Oct 19, 2010 | For Parents, For Teachers
By Lynette T. Owens My daughter’s backpack always comes home filled with interesting things – art projects, homework assignments, half-eaten lunches. Two days ago, an unexpected letter was there. It notified us that the students at her elementary school would be...
by Lynette Owens | Oct 7, 2010 | For Parents, For Teachers
By Lynette T. Owens Ambient broadcasting. This was a phrase used to describe how ‘millenials’ – those born after 1980 – view sharing personal information online in a recent report by the Pew Center. I thought it a very accurate description of what all of us, young...
by Lynette Owens | Oct 6, 2010 | For Parents, For Teachers
By Lynette T. Owens It might not be news for teens or even people who closely follow demographic shifts in Internet traffic for a living, but young people are increasingly spending more time on social networking sites that most parents or teachers would not recognize....
by Lynette Owens | Sep 9, 2010 | For Parents, For Teachers
By Lynette T. Owens Over the past year, Internet safety for kids seems to have risen moderately in importance among the general public. It is harder for me now than a year ago to meet a parent or teacher that doesn’t have a story to tell about their school, where...