Wellness & Safety — News & Popular Guides

Up Too Late on Screens? Here’s How to Start the Conversation.

Advice to parents hoping to help their teens develop healthy screen habits.

Parent’s Guide to Google Search

Parental involvement and productive conversations are crucial for ensuring safe and appropriate experiences.

FBI Issues Warning About Sextortion After Arrest in Teen Death

The FBI, the Department of Homeland Security and the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) issued a joint national public safety alert on financial sextortion schemes.

Apple, Google Offering Compromises on Controversial Age Assurance Policies

Regulators and even some technology companies are calling for “age assurance” technologies.

Ask Trish: TAKE IT DOWN Act

Been seeing a lot of stuff about the Take It Down Act, can you explain what it is?

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Ask Trish: Making Digital Resolutions

Me, thinking to myself earlier this week: “What’s the one thing I want to leave the Ask Trish community with in 2021?”

Generosity is Great, But Be Cautious When Giving to Charity

“Giving Tuesday,” which is now behind us, is really the start of the end-of-the-year holiday giving period. Unfortunately, this season of generosity also brings out online scammers.

Facebook Not Alone in Embrace of ‘Metaverse’

As you’ve undoubtedly heard, Facebook has renamed itself Meta. Some people thought that was in response to the company’s recent troubles, but a company the size of Facebook doesn’t go through a major rebranding in a matter of weeks. It’s clearly been on the drawing board for months, if not longer.

Digital Wellness is Physical Wellness

Physical wellness is often associated with sleep, nutrition, and exercise but your technology habits are also having an influence.

Avoiding ‘Zoom Fatigue’

Over the past couple of years there has been an increased focus on screen time. Much of this has to do with the pandemic that has forced both adults and children into video meetings and learning during times when it was considered unsafe to gather in person.

Facebook News: It’s Complicated

One of my favorite phrases is “it’s complicated,” because it expresses the fact that many things in life are not as simple as they seem.

What is Digital Wellness?

Educators are surely familiar with the term “digital citizenship.” We are familiar with coaching and modeling for our students the ways toward acting as an upstander, blocking and reporting bullies and bad actors, and making the internet a more positive and truthful place.