Internet Safety Blog
What We’re Reading This Week: Internet Fasting Camps, Impact of Social Media on the Brain, What COPPA Changes Mean to Kids Privacy
By Lynette Owens Week of August 26, 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...
What We’re Reading This Week: Teen Angst Over Privacy, Censorship and Hannah Smith, the Internet circa 1997
By Lynette Owens Week of August 12, 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...
What We’re Reading This Week: Over-parenting Online, UK Social Media Boycott, Tips for Kids’ First Facebook
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...
What’ We’re Reading This Week: Twitter’s Dilemma, David Cameron’s Kids on Facebook, Tips for Online Games
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...
Why the UK Online Content Ban Will Hurt not Help Our Kids
By Lynette Owens On Monday, July 22, British Prime Minister David Cameron gave a speech strongly urging ISPs, search engines, and mobile operators to block consumers from accessing online content, namely pornography. The motivation for the speech...
Stricter Filters and Rules Are Not the Answer for Laptops in School
By Lynette Owens Below is an excerpt of a piece I wrote for PBS MediaShift on July 29, 2013. The full article can be found @ http://ow.ly/nrthI In January, I wrote a piece about the Natick, Mass., public school district’s Digital Conversion, a...
What We’re Reading: UK Censorship, How Teens Spend Time Online, Is Facebook Still Hip?
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...
What We’re Reading: Parents on Facebook, Tips for a Healthy Summer, SnapKidz
by Lynette Owens Week of July 15, 2013 Welcome to our inaugural What We're Reading update! To help you keep up with what's going on with kids, families, schools, and technology, we’ll compile a list of interesting stories our team's been reading...
Bad Apple? Who’s To Blame For Kids’ In-Game Shopping Sprees?
By Lynette Owens The following is an excerpt from a guest post that originally appeared in Forbes on March 11. This is a story about Apple and a group of angry parents whose kids did something they shouldn’t have. It involves allegedly deceptive...
