Safety tips for online surfing/socializing for kids.
# Glubble Trusted Surfing for children under 12 years of age enables families to be sure they only see the best of the web they choose to allow.
# Glubble Altered Search makes Google and Yahoo show results from childrens trusted Glubbleworld instead of the world wide web.
# Child friendly look and feel with interfaces for pre-reading and reading age young children.
Last week, in the most significant Internet free speech case since the Supreme Court struck down part of the Communications Decency Act (CDA) in 1997, the Center for Democracy & Technology filed a "friend of the court" brief in a federal appeals court challenging the Child Online Protection Act (COPA) as a violation of the First Amendment.
The "amicus" brief, submitted to the Third Circuit court in Philadelphia on behalf of CDT and 17 other groups, argued that COPA places unconstitutional burdens on creators and distributors of legitimate Web content, including websites focusing on sexual identity, health, and art. Other strategies are more effective than COPA at protecting children from online content deemed inappropriate for them, and also impose fewer restrictions on lawful adult speech. Specifically, encouraging parents to use technological tools such as Internet filtering software and educating children about smart online behavior are far more effective and appropriate ways to protect kids on the Internet.
March 22, 2007:At issue in this case is the constitutionality of the Child Online Protection Act, 47
U.S.C. § 231 (“COPA”) and whether this court should issue a permanent injunction against its
enforcement due to its alleged constitutional infirmities. COPA provides both criminal and civil
penalties for transmitting sexually explicit materials and communications over the World Wide
Web (“Web”) whi
For the second time, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia struck down a law that would imprison commercial Web site operators who do not cordon off sexually explicit material from minors. The Child Online Protection Act (COPA) "is not narrowly tailored to proscribe commercial pornographers and their ilk, as the government contends, but instead prohibits a wide range of protected e
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.
Watching a preschooler surf the Net may strike terror in a parent's heart. If you turn away for a minute, will he stay on the educational site that you have found for him? And how about your personal files — are they safe or will untrained little hands click into a disaster?
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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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.
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