Dr. Gwenn’s Huffington Post Blog
I love the theme of this year’s National Cyber Security Awareness Month: “Our Shared Responsibility” That truly hits the nail on the head with the best way to approach not only our safety and security online, but our developing kids [...]
By now you’ve seen the headlines of the AAP clinical report and “Facebook Depression”. The report, though, is about much more than that.
Today it begins…another first day of school.
This is a huge day for my girls in very different ways.
Did you know that yesterday was Safer Internet Day? Other than kids whose schools hosted activities and digital and safety experts, many had no idea.
This was my digital foot print according to EMC’s digital footprint tool at 10am ET today. As I type this post, 4 1/2 hours later, at 2:30pm ET, my digital footprint has increased to 342, 646,507,000…and counting! That’s consistent with the 25k increase per hour we say during the podcast earlier.
Do you have a technology participation gap in your family? We do. In fact, most families do somewhere.
For us, we have a few older relatives who firmly believe that technology is for “the younger generation”. What’s interesting is that some of these people are not that old, at least not “old” as I definite it.
Bullying is on the rise and putting all our kids at risk, on and off line. Tune in to this week’s show, the third of this important series, as I welcome Stephen Balkam, CEO of the Family Online Safety Institute to help us understand the importance of digital citizenship in the online world as a buffer for challenging events, including bullying, and as a necessary aspect of living in today’s world in general.
The selective hearing of children always amazes me, especially when technology is involved. Recently I had to use technology to get my tween off technology and back to the interactive world of her family. It was at that moment I [...]
We all consider ourselves citizens of the world, global citizens. But, do you realize we’re also digital citizens?
That was the topic of last week’s Family Online Safety Institute conference in Washington, DC, where I had the privilege of being on the panel,Exploring Why Kids Behave The Way They Do OnLine, and interacting with the industry’s top movers and shakers in industry, research and policy.
