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By Lynette Owens<\/p>\nBy Lynette Owens<\/p>\n
Week of September 2, 2013<\/em><\/p>\n To help you keep up with what\u2019s going on with kids, families, schools, and technology, we\u2019ve compiled a list of stories, tips, and insights, we\u2019ve found most useful over the past week.\u00a0 What have you been reading? Tell us below or Tweet @TrendISKF<\/a>.<\/p>\n STUDENT SURVEILLANCE:\u00a0<\/strong> Some children will now become more accustomed to being monitored on social networks<\/a>.\u00a0 Glendale Unified School District in California is paying $40,500 to Geo Listening to collect and analyze all public social media posts of its 13,000 middle and high school students, regardless of where it was posted.<\/p>\n BABIES ON TWITTER:<\/strong> Some media heavyweights are giving their children a head start on social media<\/a>. Today<\/i>\u00a0show correspondent\u00a0Jenna Wolfe<\/a>, NBC News correspondent\u00a0Stephanie Gosk<\/a>, and ABC News correspondent Darren Rovell<\/a> are just some of the parents who have created Twitter handles and tweet on behalf of their young children.<\/p>\n PROMOTING KIDS OR COMMUNITY?: \u00a0<\/strong> While some are tweeting on their kids\u2019 behalf, other parents are posting plenty about their kids on Facebook<\/a>. \u00a0Salon<\/i> writer Andrew Leonard takes issue with Slate\u2019s<\/i> Amy Webb who claims posting pictures of your kids on social networks is \u201crobbing\u201d them \u201cof a digital adulthood that\u2019s free of bias and presupposition.\u201d<\/p>\n NEW RESEARCH:<\/strong> Turns out parents in many parts of the world love posting pictures of their kids, sometimes even before they\u2019re born.\u00a0 More in this new EU Kids online report<\/a> of kids 0-8.<\/p>\n