Never Mind

The well-respected Mrs. Durff asked in Skype: Know any middle school classrooms that would like to be in a global project that would only take one or two weeks out of their lives ? Yes, maybe I do. Working in a K-12 environment, I know a few middle school teachers. Many of them are open [...]

Posted on November 4th, 2008 by John Schinker
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Protecting Kids Online 4: Filtering

Hopefully by this point, you’ve put the cybersafety issue into perspective, implemented some basic measures to protect your kids online, and used resources to help teach kids how to protect themselves. Now it’s time to talk about filtering Internet access. Conceptually, web filters are very simple. When using a filtered computer, requests for web pages, [...]

Posted on June 4th, 2008 by John Schinker
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Protecting Kids Online 3: Teach Your Children

“The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher.” – Elbert Hubbard In the first part of this series, we tried to cut through some of the irrational fears about online safety and put the issue into perspective. In part 2, we looked at some tips for parents [...]

Posted on May 27th, 2008 by John Schinker
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Protecting Kids Online 2: Tips for Parents

In the first part of this series, we examined the issue of cybersafety. Hopefully, we dispelled some myths and put the issue into perspective. While it’s important to protect our kids online, and it’s important to teach them to protect themselves, it is not at all likely that our children will become the victims of [...]

Posted on May 20th, 2008 by John Schinker
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Protecting Kids Online 1: How Big is the Problem?

I’ve received a couple questions lately about keeping kids safe online. We see news reports all the time about the danger of social networking sites, and the problems with posting personal information online, and the number of children who have been exposed to inappropriate material online. Today, I’m starting a series of blog posts about [...]

Posted on May 15th, 2008 by John Schinker
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