iKeep Safe reminds us to “Take Precautions When Traveling and Using Free Internet”
Taking the family on vacation? Bringing along the laptop to look for things to do and places to go? It makes sense, but be careful. Trusting unfamiliar wireless networks could mean that you are trusting your information to fake networks created by cybercriminals who are lurking on the other side ready to steal your information.
Nancy Willard at SafeKids.com tells us “Web 2.0 schools – something more profound is happening”
What these technologies are doing is challenging the hierarchical authoritarian-based structures in our society. We are changing to a network-based, community-based society. And this brings us to schools. Currently, most schools function as strict hierarchies. But they don’t have to.
Anne Collier at NetFamily News blogs about a “Morgan Stanley teen intern on peers’ media use”
Though Morgan Stanley says its report by 15-year-old intern Matthew Robson on his friends’ media habits got “five or six times more feedback” than its European media team’s usual reports, the investment banking firm “made no claims for [the report's] statistical rigour,” the Financial Times reports.
Linda Criddle at iLookBothWays asks us to “Listen to the new Summer Online Safety Tips Podcast”
As president of the Safe Internet Alliance, Linda Criddle recently hosted a podcast to discuss Summer Online Safety Tips with Kim Sanchez of Microsoft and Holly Hawkins of AOL. For most kids summer affords more free time – and with working parents, much of that time for teens is spent on their own. But unlike past generations, with today’s technologies that does not mean they are unsupervised.
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