Parents don’t need to be terrified of the internet!
This has long been the approach of Safe Online where we appraoch the Internet and Internet Safety from a place of possibility and positivity rather than negativity and scare tactics.…
Is Cyber-bullying on the rise?
According to Jim Gibson of the Victoria Times, cyber-bullying is in deed on the rise. In a recent article Jim sites the New York's Mediamark Research and Intelligence (media-mark.com) which reported…
Life Online in the Nineties was Fluid
Life online in the late-nineteen-nineties was fluid. I could be anyone, i could talk to anyone, argue any point of view. They called it the "information superhighway" then and I was working with 'street kids'. My frustration as a youth worker then was that the only people youth seemed to meet online were predators or or pedophiles. The people who care most about youth where NOT the early adopters of the Internet.
Digital Technology and Education: A Mixed Bag
"Is digital technology the savior of education? Or is it the destroyer of education? Or is it both . . . and neither?" Interesting article by Mark Roberts
Young people need guidance to cope with the threats posed by social media | Society | The Guardian
Thanks to Nancy B. for sending me this article today about youth, education and social medias. It's interesting to see that despite the different abbreviations we use for our work,…
Education in the 21st Century
Guest blog post by Sofia Rasmussen As computer technology becomes more advanced and complex, consumer computers used by families have become increasingly user-friendly. It no longer takesan online doctorate to understand…
Educating Children Better Than Banning Sex Offenders on Social Media in Canada
Today the Vancouver Sun featured an interview with Merlyn on the importance of teaching children how to be safe online and in online gaming environments.
Podcast Interview With Steve Dotto
I had a great interview with Steve Dotto which he has posted on his website. Steve and I have been working in the tech field for over ten years now…
Sext Up Kids Part Two
"Somehow, sexualized children have become part of our culture. Somehow, letting 11-year-olds dress like this… has become okay." Has it? In whose world has it become okay? Most of us…
Sext Up Kids Pt One
One of the themes that emerges next is the difference between public and private when it comes to sex and sexuality. Does this increasingly blurry boundary pose some hazards for young people? I'd say, yes, potentially. But I'd also say that making sex public can help to demystify it and make it a topic worthy of public discourse instead of hidden away as if it is something shameful. An antidote to the streak of prudishness in North American culture, perhaps.