{"id":845,"date":"2014-02-01T05:52:21","date_gmt":"2014-02-01T13:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/internetsafety.trendmicro.com\/?p=845"},"modified":"2014-02-01T05:55:42","modified_gmt":"2014-02-01T13:55:42","slug":"wwr_27jan14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trendmicro.com\/internet-safety\/blog\/wwr_27jan14\/","title":{"rendered":"What We’re Reading: Media Literacy in the Classroom, Facebook vs. Snapchat, Case of the High School Hackers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Lynette Owens<\/p>\n

Week of January 27, 2014<\/i><\/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\u00a0@TrendISKF<\/a>.<\/p>\n

TWITTER IN SCHOOL: <\/b>A teacher at a Milwaukee school is gaining notoriety for encouraging Twitter use in the classroom<\/a>. Chris Lazarski , who teaches public policy, joined a national San Francisco-based program that encourages kids to tweet their reactions to current events. Lazarski says with proper oversight, students learn an important lesson on how to use Twitter for research and communication.\u00a0 An incredible way to promote media literacy in our schools!<\/p>\n

TEACHER\u2019S PLEA GOES VIRAL: <\/b>A Scotland teacher who wanted to show her young students how widely a photo can spread<\/a> on Facebook, posted her photo with a handwritten plea on Jan. 13th<\/sup>.\u00a0 It has since been shared more than 163,000 times on Facebook alone and viewed in 90 countries. Additionally, she\u2019s experienced victimization by internet trolls and someone set up a fake account with her likeness. The teacher said this has been a valuable lesson as many of her students were not aware of variety of privacy settings \u00a0on Facebook and how easily their information could be viewed by the public.\u00a0 Another great way to teach media literacy and promote online safety and privacy in school.<\/b><\/p>\n

FACEBOOK VS. SNAPCHAT:<\/b> It appears Facebook see Snapchat as a real threat<\/a>, especially after the former tried and failed to buy the latter.\u00a0 Snapchat is the first app that does not rely heavily on Facebook\u2019s community for any reason.\u00a0 And it did something first that really appealed to people: make the photos disappear. It will be interesting to watch how these companies will continue to evolve overtime to remain competitive: Snapchat to maintain its uniqueness, and Facebook to copy them. \u00a0There are already new arrivals to join the fight, including last month\u2019s launch of Confide, the messaging app that lets your texts disappear.\u00a0 I think whoever does best to never lose sight of the customer experience will always win, and among youth, this means creating something apps and features that meet some emotional need.\u00a0 This is the reason Snapchat became so popular, not because it was an anti-Facebook option.<\/p>\n

HIGH-SCHOOL HACKERS EXPELLED: <\/b>Students at a prestigious high school in Southern California have been expelled for hacking teachers\u2019 computers<\/a> to change their grades and steal tests.\u00a0 They had help from an adult tutor, but aside from the story of why these students felt compelled to act in this way, possibly because of extreme academic pressure, this story highlights two other things for me.\u00a0 One is that kids are quite capable of hacking although we should strongly discourage this and help them understand it is morally, ethically, and legally wrong to do it.\u00a0 Second, we should always question the security of systems in our schools, especially since our children\u2019s data is increasingly being stored and transported through these systems.<\/p>\n

See you next week!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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. <\/p>\n

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