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  • How can adults teach children how to use social technology appropriately?  They can start by modeling appropriate behavior themselves.  For a good reminder of what “appropriate social technology behavior” means, check out this article from The New  York Times, on smartphone etiquette in the workplace.
    We want our children to stop texting in excess, to get [...]

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  • NSTeens Activity Cards are 20-30 minute Internet safety lessons that engage students in discussion, collaborative learning, hands on activities, and reflection. The new NSTeens video, “Attitude Overdrive,” has corresponding Intermediate and Middle School Activity Cards that can be used by educators, counselors, and parents.

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  • Learning to Model and Monitor Responsible Online Behavior

    Learning to Model and Monitor Responsible...

    How do everyday parents manage to keep their kids (and themselves) mindful of the future consequences of their current online/wireless...

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  • Summertime in Cyberspace: Helping Kids Make Safe Choices

    Summertime in Cyberspace: Helping Kids Make...

    As the school year rapidly comes to a close, teachers and parents should consider the fact that children and teens will soon...

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  • Gaming

    Gaming

    Our focus this issue is on gaming - what does that mean in a Web 2.0 age? We're not talking Monopoly, kickball or even Ms....

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  • Five Things to “Bring” to Virtual Worlds: A Little Advice for the Reluctant

    Five Things to “Bring” to Virtual Worlds:...

    As an ITF/Media Specialist, I could begin this piece with a long explanation of the journey I have taken the past five years...

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  • Gaming, Kids, and Responsible Parenting: A Tech-Savvy Dad’s Point of View

    Gaming, Kids, and Responsible Parenting:...

    For The Parent's Corner, bNetS@vvy editor, Mary Esselman talked with dad and Washington Education Association staffer Rich...

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  • Getting to Know You: Understanding the Benefits and Risks of Texting

    Getting to Know You: Understanding the Benefits...

    By Jace Galloway-Shoemaker Texting is a form of wireless communication where users send or receive short, digital messages...

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  • What’s Up with Texting? A Teacher Asks Her Students to Clue Her In

    What’s Up with Texting? A Teacher Asks...

    By Allison Cohen For most teenagers, texting has become an integrated part of their social networking. It is, however, still...

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  • Cyberbullying: Then and Now

    Cyberbullying: Then and Now

    by Anthony J. Varni   Flashback to January 2005, when the Principal Advisory Committee of a small parochial school in central...

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  • Good Tech Safety Tidings, from Two Teens in the Know

    Good Tech Safety Tidings, from Two Teens...

    What tech tools/toys do you use frequently? Walk us through a typical day so that we can better understand how and why these...

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  • NSTeens Activity Cards - Terrible Text

    NSTeens Activity Cards - Terrible Text

    NSTeens Activity Cards - Terrible Text Some teens say and do terrible things to each other online because they don’t...

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