Tag: Cyberbullying
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Enhancing Child Saftey Online
The Internet Safety Technical Task Force to the Multi-State Working Group on Social Networking of State Attorneys General of the United States has released a report on the risks that exist online for kids in the US. Some of the findings: Bullying and harassment, most often by peers, are the most frequent threats that minors…
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US moves on Cyberbullying
I can only hope that while Harper is getting busy “naming 14 year old criminals” he remembers that there might be some role for the federal goverment (CRTC?) to suggest to the provinces that they might want to bring in something similar to this within their existing provincial curriculums – the cynic in me thinks……
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Cyberbullying very common for school aged teens
Jaana Juvonen and Elisheva F Grossof UCLA have published a paper (J Sch Health. 2008 Sep 6;78 (9):496-505 18786042 – DOI: 10.1111/j.1746-1561.2008.00335.x) in the Journal of School Health that suggests almost 3/4 students have experienced at least one instance of bullying over the past year. The conclusions that they arrived at there is a need…
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Internet safety – The Genie is out of the bottle
I missed this the first time it went around, but Pogue makes a very good point about how we as concerned adults should be watching out for the other kids that our children may be interacting with rather than the predators that might lurk in the ether : As my own children approach middle school, my own…
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CBC’s Search Engine on Cyberbullying
Search Engine had this as a topic this week and I’m amazed that there as some out there who think that this is a non issue or something that is “phantasmic”, but CBC went to the kids and pulled out some interesting things to think about. You can get the episode here. After this episode,…