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“Sure, there are dangers. But they’re hugely overhyped by the media. The tales of pedophiles luring children out of their homes are like plane crashes: they happen extremely rarely, but when they do, they make headlines everywhere. The Internet is just another facet of socialization for the new generation; as always, common sense and a level head are the best safeguards.”
Four decades ago, Joan Ganz Cooney and her colleagues created the gold standard for using mass media to educate children when they founded the long-running kids? program Sesame Street. Today, the Joan Ganz Cooney Center, the nonprofit research organization Ganz Cooney founded, is pushing for an overhaul of children?s media legislation that may prove no less far-reaching.
Pope Benedict XVI has called on the media to underpin its work with ethical considerations and do more to promote the "dignity of the human being".
Darlington County School District held a free seminar Monday night on social networking sites such as Myspace.com and Facebook. com, for parents to learn more about the sites their children are visiting.
“We hope to establish a dialogue with parents,” said Diane Sigmon, director of technology in Darlington County School District. “These things (Web sites) are out there. We’ve got to help them (chi
Video from Dove's "real beauty" campaign showing the onslaught of ads a young girl sees from the beauty industry
Back when Debbie Heimowitz was a middle schooler in Castro Valley, if you wanted to cut somebody down you talked behind her back. Now you post your putdowns on the Internet. Heimowitz, a 26-year-old grad student at Stanford, has made a film about this online cruelty.
Thanks to a pilot program called the Aspirnaut Initiative, the bus has been outfitted with an Internet router and the children have been given either video iPods or laptops. The machines have been loaded with educational videos such as National Geographic Society's Wild Chronicles to teach concepts such as the relationship between predator and prey.
School districts rely too heavily on technical solutions to protect their networks and buildings, and they need to focus more attention on communicating and educating their students about physical and cyber dangers--that's one of the key findings in technology reseller CDW-G's "School Safety Index," a research project benchmarking the current status of public K-12 school district safety.
The State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) has developed a set of materials that promote a systemic approach for information and media literacy within our schools. We seek to help states develop a common vision and implementation strategies that prepare students to make safe, responsible, and smart use of technology and media both in and out of school in the 21st Century.
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It’s free, and it’s online in its entirety. The show surveys the current kids-online situation—thoroughly, open-mindedly and frankly.
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