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eParenting and Parenting in the 21st Century
eParenting used to mean keeping your kids safe on the Internet, however now it has a wider scope including parenting with the use of technology, and distance parenting. Curated by Peter Mellow |
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A photo of a child posted online can end up in the hands of strangers, added to massive databases without consent, or altered with AI to bully and blackmail.
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I teach sex ed. In light of a recent report on exploitation of children on the site Pornhub, I have some talking points for parents.
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Alicia Kozakiewicz was 13 when she was abducted by a man she had met online - now she tries to protect other children from what she went through.
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Paedophiles are using secret groups on Facebook to post and swap obscene images of children, the BBC has found.
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Danah Boyd has made a name for herself at the research division of Microsoft for painstaking work examining social media, Big Data and the tension between public and private lives - New Zealand Herald
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If anything, 2013 has highlighted just how fragile online freedoms and digital privacy really is. - New Zealand Herald
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Ten years ago the government built a totally private, anonymous network. Now it's a haven for criminals
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A mother will lobby New Zealand companies to pull their advertisements from a Latvia-based social networking site after her 12-year-old daughter was asked to provide explicit photos
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Speaking at a festival in the U.K., Google's executive chairman offers that the things teens do now will stay with them forever, by way of the Web. He also suggested some people are sharing too much online.
It must be peculiar for children of the Internet age.
They are the first to have a complete record of their whole lives. They are the first who'll be able to offer concrete proof of every one of their days, friends, and actions.
Eric Schmidt worries, however, that they'll be the first who'll never be allowed to forget their mistakes.
Part of our responsibility as teachers is to prepare our learners for their future. Helping them to understand that the Internet has a very long memory is pato of that role.
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When her 11-year-old son was exposed to a violent porn video online, Lizi Patch was left to explain adult concepts to a confused child.
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Last week my son told me he had watched something horrible online. Something sexual where the young women involved seemed coerced into an act that was brutal and disgusting, not just
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Prime Minister Julia Gillard visited Yates Avenue Public School in Sydney’s Dundas Valley today to launch a new cyber safety program aimed at educating primary-aged children on how to stay safe online.
With the prevalence of internet use increasing, cyber awareness and cyber ethics must be introduced early to reduce, control and potentially eliminate certain risks and dangers that accompany the online activity. Healthy Harold is an engaging way for younger children to learn about cyber safety.
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Let's say you find history of porn searches on your 13-year-old's computer, and let's say it's not weird or violent porn, but just run-of-the-mill, mildly off-putting porn. What should you do? I'd say nothing, but maybe I'm wrong.
PM - The survey results are interesting. Good to see communication appears to be in most parents minds.
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TEENAGERS are especially vulnerable to sex predators because they might not tell their parents where they are or what they were doing.