{"id":941,"date":"2014-06-20T09:57:02","date_gmt":"2014-06-20T17:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/internetsafety.trendmicro.com\/?p=941"},"modified":"2014-06-20T09:58:05","modified_gmt":"2014-06-20T17:58:05","slug":"wwr_16jun14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trendmicro.com\/internet-safety\/blog\/wwr_16jun14\/","title":{"rendered":"Must Reads: Close Watch On New Amazon Phone, Summer Learning Online, TweetDeck Attacked, Coding in Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Lynette Owens<\/p>\n

Week of June 16, 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 and interesting over the past week. \u00a0If you’ve found something interesting, let us know here or on Twitter @TrendISKF.<\/p>\n

WATCHING AMAZON\u2019S FIRE PHONE CLOSELY:<\/b> Amazon ventured into the world of smartphones with the launch of its Fire Phone this week.\u00a0 Early reviews are less than stellar, though it\u2019s not available until later in July.\u00a0 Experts claim<\/a> it doesn\u2019t seem to have much of a competitive advantage over Apple\u2019s iPhone or Samsung\u2019s Galaxy, but it does<\/span> have unlimited photo storage and a shopping app called Firefly that I believe is worth watching from a youth and online safety perspective.\u00a0 Cameras are one of the most heavily used features of smartphones, helping to drive the popularity of apps such as Instagram and Snapchat.\u00a0 While the techies are arguing tech specs, I think having no limit to snapping selfies could be a huge selling point for some demographics (new parents, teens, etc.).\u00a0 \u00a0Let\u2019s not write this phone off so early \u2013 we\u2019ll certainly be watching it closely.<\/p>\n

SUMMER LEARNING ONLINE: <\/b>The Internet gets a bad reputation in the news quite often, but it can also be very beneficial to helping kids keep their academic skills sharp while they\u2019re out of school for the summer<\/a>. Resources such as online tutoring, college preparation, summer reading challenges and other learning activities can all be found online and the best part is-most of them are free!<\/p>\n

TWEETDECK ATTACKED<\/b>: Twitter’s popular social media monitoring application TweetDeck<\/a> suffered a malicious attack that allowed users to see random pop-ups within the service and caused thousands to Re-Tweet potentially malicious code to their followers. The attack serves as a good reminder for users, who should make semi-regular updates to their social media security, including changing complicated passwords often and ensuring there\u2019s no sensitive or financial information stored on these networks.<\/p>\n

CODING IN SCHOOLS<\/b>: Is programming taught in your local school<\/a>? While today\u2019s children seem to inherently understand how to use technology, children who learn to code may gain a better understanding of how these technologies work, and maximize the power of their own digital devices. For a generation who will likely be asked to harness technology as part of their future careers, an early understanding of computer programming could be immensely beneficial.<\/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: Keeping Close Watch On New Amazon Phone, Summer Learning Online, TweetDeck Attacked, Coding in Schools <\/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":[123,84,13,8,47,93,6,126,125,5,11,48,66,10,23,124,76,88,12,21],"class_list":["post-941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-for-parents","category-for-teachers","tag-amazon","tag-apps","tag-cell-phones","tag-digital-citizenship","tag-digital-literacy","tag-edtech","tag-education","tag-fire-phone","tag-instragram","tag-internet-safety","tag-kids","tag-media-literacy","tag-mobile","tag-online-safety","tag-privacy","tag-selfies","tag-snapchat","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\/941","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=941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.trendmicro.com\/internet-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trendmicro.com\/internet-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trendmicro.com\/internet-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trendmicro.com\/internet-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}