by Justin W. Patchin The Obama administration arguably declared war on bullying in the fall of 2010 when it convened the first federally-supported Bullying Prevention Summit. In 2011, stopbullying.gov was launched. That same year, I attended a conference hosted by...
by Larry Magid: Google kicked off its annual I/O developers conference in San Francisco on Thursday with a long list of announcements, and two are aimed at making the company’s products more friendly for kids, parents and classrooms. The search giant is updating...
En la actualidad, parece que todos tienen un teléfono móvil, incluidos más del 75% de los adolescentes de EE. UU. y un creciente número de niños más pequeños. Tanto para los jóvenes como para adultos, la tecnología ha cambiado la manera en que trabajamos, jugamos, nos...
by Michael Rich, MD Q: We would like to get devices (smartphones, laptops, kindles, tablets) out of our kids’ bedrooms, but we don’t know how to do this. They use their laptops for homework and smartphones for music and as alarm clocks. Do you have any good...
by Larry Magid: A study published in April by Pew Research found that only 11% of cellphone-owning teens use anonymous question and answer apps like Yik-Yak, Whisper and Ask.fm. Girls (13%) are more likely than boys (8%) to use such apps as are Hispanics (16%)...
by Larry Magid Let’s be honest. Many children — especially post-pubescent boys — are interested in what we commonly call “porn.” You might not like the idea that some kids are looking at these images, but that doesn’t change the fact that it’s a pretty common...