Social Media Considerations

By Trevor Galbraith

What we need to consider in the classrooms of today

5 ways to prevent screen addiction for 8-13 years old
kidsnclicks.com
Unlike driving, there’s no set age for kids to start having access to a mobile phone phone. The age at which parents hand a phone over to them will …
Kid Safe Search Engine
kidrex.org
iPhone time limit: How to set a time limit for a specific app on iOS 12
9to5Mac - Benjamin Mayo
Screen Time in iOS 12 offers a lot of different options for reining back how much you, or your kids, use your iPhone and iPad. You can track your activity, and also set time limits for apps and categories
DQ World
dqworld.net
Getting Started with Microsoft in the Classroom
microsoft.com - MSAUEDU
Want to get started with Microsoft in the classroom? We've pulled together a list of upcoming training sessions hosted by Microsoft Learning Design …
To Keep Teens Safe Online, They Need To Learn To Manage Risk
kqed.org - April Fulton
Parents of teens know how tricky it is to keep their kids physically safe while balancing their need for greater independence, but when it comes to …
Technology News
CNBC
25 Mins Ago Eric Xu, one of the rotating chairmen at Huawei said consumers may have to pay more for 5G because of less competition as result of the …
Why you should use iOS 12’s Do Not Disturb at Bedtime all day long
Cult of Mac - Charlie Sorrel
iOS 12’s best new feature may be Do Not Disturb at Bedtime. That sounds boring, but ask anyone who has been using it and they’ll tell you that it rocks. Apart from being active overnight, the main difference
Updated Password Advice: What Teachers and Students Need to Know
theedublogger.com - -by-
Creating, remembering, using and protecting passwords. It’s all part of everyday life but are you and your students managing passwords well? Poor …
Chill your outrage. Parents should hire 'Fortnite' tutors.
Mashable - Adam Rosenberg
Maybe it's time we stopped with the pearl-clutching over video games. Fortnite was big news on Tuesday, when the Wall Street Journal published a …
10 Apps to Delete from Your Teenager's Phone (and 4 to Watch Closely)
Tom's Guide - Amy Oztan
Is generation Z glued to technology? ‘It’s not an addiction; it’s an extension of themselves’ - National |
globalnews.ca - By Marilisa Racco
This is the second story of an eight-part series on the generation Z population in Canada — who they are, what drives them and how they envision …
Schools should ban mobile phones to improve students' academic results and mental wellbeing — EducationHQ Australia
educationhq.com
The crucible happened six years ago: 2012 was the year teen mobile phone ownership crossed the 50 per cent mark. Since then, the saturation of these …
Smartphone ban in NSW schools an option, as Government launches study into phone use
abc.net.au - Angelique Lu
School children in New South Wales could be going back to the future, with the State Government looking at banning smartphones on school grounds and …
100+ Free Public Domain Images
unsplash.com - Unsplash
Thousands of public domain images These aren't your typical public domain images—they're submitted exclusively by the Unsplash community's generous …
How your social media footprint can affect your future
uonnavigator.com - Sarah James September 19, 2017 0 Comments
We all have an unflattering photo we hope doesn’t see the light of day. Before the days of Facebook and Snapchat, it wasn’t too difficult to bury …
How (and Why) Ed-Tech Companies Are Tracking Students' Feelings
edweek.org - Benjamin Herold
—Josh Ritchie for Education Week A push to use new technology to understand the 'whole child' is sparking privacy fears By Benjamin Herold All school …
Technology
Twitter Is Banning Users Who May Have Signed Up Before They Were 13
Fortune - Lisa Marie Segarra
Twitter seems to be enforcing a longtime age restriction rule, even when it doesn’t apply anymore. Twitter users that appear to have have signed up …
flip.it
What Google is doing with your data
thewest.com.au
THE ACCC is investigating accusations Google is using as much as $580 million worth of Australians’ phone plan data annually to secretly track their …
How to See Where Your Photos Are Being Used Illegally Online
makeuseof.com - Ben Stegner
If you’re a photographer, or even just occasionally upload images to your website, you’re probably concerned about people stealing your pictures. …
10 Apps Teens are Using that Parents Need to Know
appsolutelyapril.com - by April Requard
Here is how to delete Facebook
TechCrunch - Jordan Crook
Some of us have been on Facebook for more than a decade, but all good things come to an end. Over the past 18 months, Facebook has been in a downward spiral. The social network is in the eye of a controversy
Here’s what Facebook knows about you, and how to download all your data
9to5Mac - Ben Lovejoy
Facebook has long allowed you to download an archive of all the data the social network has on you, and HackerNoon’s Georges Abi-Heila decided to find out exactly what company knows about its users … Abi-Heila
Seminars| Commissioner for Children and Young People WA
ccyp.wa.gov.au
Child Safe Organisations WA seminars These free seminars are designed for leaders, managers and staff of organisations who provide activities and …
Help create a better internet
cyberhound.com - Sarah Endres
CyberHound is a proud supporter of Safer Internet Day (SID), an annual, worldwide event held this year on Tuesday 6 February, aimed to encourage a …
Why all free music may soon disappear from YouTube
yahoo.com - Yahoo UK
For many young people, free music on sites like YouTube is a standard way to sample new songs – but it could be about to end. A coalition of copyright …
Cyberbullying
Calls to ban phones from classrooms
thewest.com.au
Federal Education Minister Simon Birmingham wants smartphones banned from classrooms, saying they are a distraction and “a platform for bullying”. The …