By Lynette Owens
Week of July 29, 2013
To help you keep up with what’s going on with kids, families, schools, and technology, we’ve compiled a list of stories, tips, and insights, we’ve found most useful over the past week. What have you been reading? Tell us below or Tweet @TrendISKF
- Twitter continues to deal with criticism of its actions/inactions in moderating hate speech.
- The latest developments in the UK pornography filter story reveal that David Cameron will allow his children to have Facebook pages as long as he can monitor them.
- Anne Collier of Net Family News shares her insights on protecting children online by empowering them to explore on their own and not imposing restrictive rules.
- RESEARCH: In this book review by Lisa Jones of the Crimes Against Children Research Center at the University of New Hampshire, a study across the EU suggests online risks to kids may be lower than you think.
- PARENT TIPS: Dona Fraser of the Entertainment Software Ratings Board (ESRB) provides great advice for online gaming.
- TEACHER TIPS: Are you a teacher on social media? Mashable shares a few tips on how to act on social channels and what resources to use.
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.