{"id":882,"date":"2014-03-10T07:23:34","date_gmt":"2014-03-10T15:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/internetsafety.trendmicro.com\/?p=882"},"modified":"2014-03-10T07:24:05","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T15:24:05","slug":"wwr_3mar14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trendmicro.com\/internet-safety\/blog\/wwr_3mar14\/","title":{"rendered":"What We’re Reading: YikYak App Headlines, Talk Online Safety Before Birds & Bees, Kids Do Good Online, Tech Trumps Toys"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"LynetteOwens_Trend_bw_edit\"<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n

Week of March 3, 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

POPULAR YIKYAK APP MAKING HEADLINES: <\/b>The latest app that\u2019s both popular but that is in some cases is being misused is called YikYak.\u00a0 It let\u2019s you use post anonymous comments to an audience that\u2019s physically close by (like your college campus).\u00a0 Here\u2019s a great overview<\/a> from the Cyberbullying Research Center with some advice on how to handle any bullying that might be happening on it.<\/p>\n

I would advise, however, that since the app was definitely intended for college campuses and older teens (17+), parents avoid any trouble for this app and others like it by simply setting age restrictions on your under 17 kids\u2019 mobile devices.\u00a0 Beyond that simple step, however, is the harder task of teaching, role-modeling, and reminding our kids that they should always be kind, and that anything they post is permanent and not really private.\u00a0 These are choices that will reflect and make up a true picture of who they really are to others who will be able to see those choices.<\/p>\n

TALK ONLINE SAFETY BEFORE BIRDS AND BEES<\/b>: \u00a0In a new book by Google executives Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen, “The New Digital Age,” the authors claim that having a conversation with kids about how to use the Internet<\/a> is “a more important conversation than the birds and the bees.” The book stresses that parents need to talk to their kids and \u201cstart early about the importance of online privacy and security, years before they even talk about the birds and the bees.\u201d<\/p>\n

When are you starting this important conversation about digital citizenship and online safety with your children?<\/p>\n

THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT: <\/b>Similar to how we promoted the good that\u2019s happening online for Safer Internet Day, the Los Angeles Daily News<\/a> outlined a few positive and inspiring ways kids are engaging online and through social media, such as purposefully taking \u201cUgly Selfies\u201d to show you don\u2019t always have to be perfect or beautiful in pictures, as well as TED talks by kids and other kid-started ideas like apps, non-profits and efforts to end cyber-bullying.<\/p>\n

TECH TRUMPS TOYS<\/b>: A\u00a0recent study<\/a>\u00a0by child-education specialists the Michael Cohen Group, suggests digital touchscreens have overtaken kids\u2019 interest for other children\u2019s toys. The research shows that more than 60 percent of parents say their kids aged 12 and under play on touch screens “often.” And 38 percent apparently play “very often.”<\/p>\n

It\u2019s an interesting data point, but we can\u2019t draw too many broad conclusions from this alone.\u00a0 In looking at the larger research report, it doesn\u2019t appear the researchers put tech time in context.\u00a0 They didn\u2019t ask about other activities within a child\u2019s day (such as playing with friends, extracurricular actvities such as sports or dance lessons, music lessons, etc.).\u00a0 \u00a0So take in the data, but know it\u2019s showing us just a corner of the bigger picture about how youth spend their time in a given day.<\/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: YikYak App Makes Headlines, Talk Online Safety Before Birds & Bees, Kids Do Good Online, Tech Trumps Toys<\/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":[29,84,58,13,7,8,47,6,5,48,66,25,10,57,23,88,12,82,43,115],"class_list":["post-882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-for-parents","category-for-teachers","tag-anti-bullying-laws","tag-apps","tag-bullying","tag-cell-phones","tag-cyberbullying","tag-digital-citizenship","tag-digital-literacy","tag-education","tag-internet-safety","tag-media-literacy","tag-mobile","tag-online-privacy","tag-online-safety","tag-parents","tag-privacy","tag-social-media","tag-social-networking","tag-social-networks","tag-website-filters","tag-yikyak","wpautop"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trendmicro.com\/internet-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882","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=882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.trendmicro.com\/internet-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trendmicro.com\/internet-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trendmicro.com\/internet-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trendmicro.com\/internet-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}