By Lynette Owens
Week of August 5, 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.
- How often do you stay connected with your kids online? A recent Wall Street Journal article looks at how parents that talk to their children throughout the day via texts and emails might be impacting a generation of kids’ independence.
- In the wake of teen Hannah Smith’s suicide after being bullied on Ask.fm, UK Prime Minister David Cameron blames and demands we boycott social media sites where abuse goes on unmitigated.
- PARENT TIPS: Does your kid want their first Facebook? Colby Zintl of Common Sense Media shares tips on how to talk to your kids about setting up their online social profiles.
- KID TIPS: Babble gives four basic digital etiquette rules all kids should learn. Some good reminders!
- RESEARCH: A Pew Research Center study claims 72% of online adults use social networking sites. Additionally, the percentage of internet users on Twitter has more than doubled since November 2010, currently standing at 18%.
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.