{"id":851,"date":"2014-02-07T09:24:28","date_gmt":"2014-02-07T17:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/internetsafety.trendmicro.com\/?p=851"},"modified":"2014-02-07T09:24:50","modified_gmt":"2014-02-07T17:24:50","slug":"wwr_4feb14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trendmicro.com\/internet-safety\/blog\/wwr_4feb14\/","title":{"rendered":"What We’re Reading: Instagram Rules, Social Media Literacy in NY Schools, Another Anti-bullying App, Facebook Gives Us Paper"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"LynetteOwens_Trend_bw_edit\"<\/a>By Lynette Owens<\/p>\n

Week of February 4, 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

<\/b>INSTAGRAM RULES:<\/b> Chicago Now\u2019s Tween Us blog shares the basics on Instagram for parents<\/a> who have kids already savvy on the app. The important things noted in the article are reminders that Instagram profiles can be public or private, the age requirement is 13 years old and that your physical location may be known when you\u2019re posting photos from Instagram if you haven\u2019t turned geotagging off. \u00a0The most important thing to remember is to try out the apps your kids are using and ask them how they\u2019re using them. As a parent, knowing how these services work is the first step to helping your kids be safe on them.\u00a0 For another great guide form our friends at ConnectSafely, go to their Parents\u2019 Guide to Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n

NYC SCHOOLS TEACH SOCIAL MEDIA LITERACY<\/b>: The New York City Department of Education recently released Social Media Guidelines for New York City Schools<\/a> and have approached in a way similar to other types of education such as health and dating.\u00a0 As the blog CoolMomTech points out, while parents may give kids the access to technology via phones or home computer use, it helps kids to learn about in terms of the academic and social context they may use social media for and in school.\u00a0 It includes guidance to kids on where to get help if you\u2019re being bullied online and how to adjust your privacy settings.<\/p>\n

ANOTHER ANTI-BULLYING APP<\/b>: The new StopIt app<\/a> attempts to prevent cyberbullying through a four-pronged approach using features that are customizable for each child. According to founder Todd Schobel \u201cStopIt\u2019s approach to cyberbullying is different from the recent, somewhat controversial approach of monitoring \u2014 or spying on \u2014 kids through their social media pages. StopIt is poised to create a culture where children feel empowered to take action when being cyberbullied or viewing as a bystander.\u201d I think tools like this can be helpful, but it\u2019s not the real answer to stopping bullying or cyberbullying.\u00a0 As our friends from the Cyberbullying Research Center have said, the schools where cyberbullying is most prevalent are the ones where the school culture and climate allows it to thrive.\u00a0 It has nothing to do with how many cell phones the students have.\u00a0 Kudos for StopIt to help in some way, but let\u2019s all remember, bullying does not start or end because with technology.<\/p>\n

FACEBOOK GIVES US PAPER: <\/b>This week, <\/b>Facebook turned 10 and launched a new app that basically organizes what you and others have posted in yet another way.\u00a0 Read more<\/a> about how it works from Hiawatha Bray of the Boston Globe.<\/p>\n

OBAMA ON PRIVACY<\/b>: U.S. President Barack Obama touched on privacy issues<\/a> in his most recent State of the Union address. In the address, he reinforced a call to reform intelligence surveillance programs, saying U.S. intelligence agencies require the trust of people inside and outside the country. Obama promised to work with Congress to reform these programs, likely meaning those at the NSA exposed by Edward Snowden. \u201cThe vital work of our intelligence community depends on public confidence here and aboard, that privacy of ordinary people is not being violated,\u201d Obama said.<\/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

This Week: Instagram Rules, Social Media Literacy in NY Schools, Another Anti-bullying App, Facebook Gives Us Paper<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[29,84,13,7,8,47,6,16,75,5,11,48,66,25,10,57,23,88,12,21],"class_list":["post-851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-for-parents","category-for-teachers","tag-anti-bullying-laws","tag-apps","tag-cell-phones","tag-cyberbullying","tag-digital-citizenship","tag-digital-literacy","tag-education","tag-facebook","tag-instagram","tag-internet-safety","tag-kids","tag-media-literacy","tag-mobile","tag-online-privacy","tag-online-safety","tag-parents","tag-privacy","tag-social-media","tag-social-networking","tag-teens","wpautop"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trendmicro.com\/internet-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trendmicro.com\/internet-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trendmicro.com\/internet-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trendmicro.com\/internet-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trendmicro.com\/internet-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.trendmicro.com\/internet-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trendmicro.com\/internet-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trendmicro.com\/internet-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trendmicro.com\/internet-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}