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TECHNOLOGY
& PARENTS
You may be
nervous about
your teen, their use of the
internet, whether they'll encounter an online predator,
etc., especially because of all the recent media coverage.
You've come to the right place to learn how to keep your kids safe in a
digital world.
TECHNOLOGY NEWS FOR PARENTS
WEB RESOURCES FOR PARENTS
CyberSafe Kids, CyberSavvy Teens
Parents - Safe Surf
SafeTeens
CyberSmart!
Growing Up Online - PBS Frontline
WiredSafety Parent Page
Easy Way to Monitor Your Child on MySpace-
CoolCatTeacher Blog
IKeepSafe.org Parent Resource Center
Understanding a Child's Virtual World (includes
videos) - Incredible Internet/Qwest
Is Your Child Using YouTube? - Vanessa
Van Petten
NetSmartz411:Internet Safety Help
(answers to common questions)
I-Safe Parent-to-Parent
WebWiseKids Parents Site
Stop Cyberbullying - Parent's Role
NetSmartz Real Life Stories - includes
videos and news stories
Safe Kids
Wired Kids
In the News
University of Toronto Finds
Instant Messaging Does Not Ruin Grammar
"Text
Generation Gap: U R 2 Old (JK)" New York Times, March 9, 2008
"MySpace
Boosts Internet Safety Efforts with Ad Campaign" SocialTech.com,
March 6, 2008
"Digital
Kids Ditch Homework for Networking" The Guardian, March 3, 2008
"How
Dangerous is the Internet for Children?" New York Times,
February 28, 2008
"Six-year-olds
'Addicted to Technology'" Herald Sun, February 29, 2008
"Social
Networking Sites Offer New Ways to Connect" Onalaska Life,
February 28, 2008
"Harvard
Scholars to Explore Net Safety" New York Times, February 28,
2008
"Social
Networking Sites, A Parent Trap?" WDTV5, Bridgeport/Clarksburg,
WV, February 25, 2008
"What's
the draw of MySpace?" The Daily Aztec, February 26, 2008
"Study
Rejects Internet Sex Predator Stereotype" MSNBC, February 18,
2008
"Drunken
College Immortalize their Nights on Facebook" ABC News,
February 19, 2008
"Students
Stage Fights to be King of YouTube Ring" Wichita Falls Online,
February 18, 2008
"Some
Give up MySpace and Facebook for Lent" The Virginian-Pilot,
February 17, 2008
"Facing
up to the future" Herald Sun, February 17, 2008
"Is
MySpace Good For Society? A Freakonomics Quorum" New York
Times, February 16, 2008
"Social
Networking Sites Safer than IM or Chat Rooms" - Washington
Post, February 1, 2008
"Generation
MySpace Getting Fed Up" - Business Week, February 7, 2008
"MySpace Bug Leaks "Private" Teen Photos to Voyeurs"
- Wired, January 17, 2008
Latest
Research About Internet Safety
National School Board Association Declares Internet Is Not So
Dangerous After All
USATODAY:
Children are Now Less Likely to Encounter Online Predators
But Look Out for Cyberbullying
96% of teens use
social-networking tools -
Survey reveals schools have a huge opportunity to
harness technology for instruction.
YouTube tackles cyberbullying online
More About Cyber-Safety
Cyberbullying Page
All About CyberBullying
Protecting Children
Online
Information About District 11 Internet Filtering
Instant
Messaging, Text
Messaging & Chat: Keeping
Your Child Safe
Find out
where sex offenders live in your neighborhood
More About Internet Safety
Prevent Online
Piracy At Home
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This new report from
American Psychologist, a journal of the American
Psychological Association, challenges some of our commonly-held
beliefs about the topic. Online ‘Predators’ and Their Victims:
Myths, Realities and Implications for Prevention, is
based on a study involving three surveys conducted in 2000 and
2005, including Internet users from age 10 to 17, and federal,
state, and local law enforcement officials. "...In spite of
public concern, the authors found:
*Adolescents’ use of
popular social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook do
not appear to increase their risk of being victimized by online
predators.
Rather, it is risky online interactions such as talking online
about sex to unknown people that increases vulnerability,
according to the researchers.
* Internet
offenders pretended to be
teenagers in only 5 percent of the crimes
studied by researchers.
* Nearly 75 percent of
victims who met offenders face-to-face did so more than once.
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Online sex offenders are seldom violent,
and cases involving stalking or abduction are very rare.
* Youth who engaged in
four or more risky online behaviors were much more likely to
report receiving online sexual solicitations. The online risky
behaviors included maintaining buddy lists that included
strangers, discussing sex online with people they did not know
in person and being rude or nasty online.
* Boys who are gay or are
questioning their sexuality may be more susceptible to
Internet-initiated sex crimes
than other populations.
Researchers found boys were the victims in nearly one-quarter of
criminal cases, and most cases included facts that suggested
victims were gay or questioning their sexuality.
from Mills, Kim. “‘INTERNET
PREDATOR’ STEREOTYPES DEBUNKED IN NEW STUDY.” APA Online. 18 Feb
2008. American Psychological Association. 21 Feb 2008 < http://www.apa.org/releases/sexoffender0208.html
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