For a while, it seemed as if the ongoing debate about online safety, and all the expertise engaged with that, was obscured by simplified ‘panic button’ coverage in the spat between Facebook and Ceop, the Child Explotation and Online Protection centre.
In the meantime, the Family Online Safety Institute had been collaborating on something far more [...]
When he doesn’t have to share the computer with his dad, 14-year-old Troy Saure spends three to five hours daily surfing the Web on his family’s laptop. While he says he sometimes uses the Internet for research for school projects, more often he checks his profiles on social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace, sends [...]
(Note: This case bears watching because it’s not unlikely that the student and parent will prevail — although certainly not to the tune of 7.5 million bucks. Nearly every time I do a cyberbullying law workshop with administrators at least one of them — usually an assistant or vice principal — brags about having searched a [...]
Bullying is nothing new, but the way children bully and are bullied has evolved over the past decade.
Fifteen years ago bullying was largely confined to schools, neighborhoods and after-school events, said Corky Graham, a special education teacher at Ohatchee High School who attended a bullying workshop at Jacksonville State University’s In-Service Education Center Tuesday. But [...]
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Singapore has earmarked 10 million Singapore dollars (7.4 million US) for projects aimed at preventing “cyber-bullying” and promoting responsible Internet use among its technologically savvy youth.
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Conference Set for Seattle, WA November 15-17, 2010
The International Bullying Prevention Association (IBPA) has announced its lineup of keynote speakers for its 7th Annual Conference in Seattle this November. The speakers are:
Jacqueline F. Beauchere, J.D.: Director, Communications & Marketing – Trustworthy Computing for Microsoft Corp., which is responsible for strategic communications to worldwide consumer and [...]
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The anonymous Web-based study surveyed 1,454 kids between the ages of 12 and 17. Of those, 41 percent reported between one and three cyberbullying incidents during the year; 13 percent reported four to six incidents; and 19 percent reported seven or more. In other words, no longer are victims of bullying relegated to the geeks [...]
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Children as young as 12 have watched “hardcore porn” on a cellphone on their way to school in Blenheim, according to a Marlborough woman.
Sheila Goldthorpe, of Okaramio, said a young boy recognised a friend had an internet-capable phone on a bus and looked up a porn site his older brother had shown him.
The downloaded footage [...]
Classmates respond with positivity
A group of Pflugerville High School students may have fallen victim to “cyberbullying” Saturday when their pictures appeared on a Facebook page.
According to PHS students and a parent, an online Facebook page entitled “Panther Book” was anonymously posted Saturday morning with photos of 55 PHS girls, each accompanied by a slanderous caption.
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Ten years into the new century, we’re still trying to find the web 2.0 tools that best facilitate collaboration—one of the fundamentals of 21st century learning. As the number of tools continues to grow, and fuzzy terms like cloud computing, hashtags, and synchronous live platforms are introduced into the lexicon daily, even the most tech-savvy [...]
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