9 Most Dangerous Apps for Kids, Parenting Kids, Christian Parents. In 2013, a twelve-year-old girl was lured away from her home by a 21 year-old-man.
Once they met, he took her to a motel and took advantage of her. How did this little girl meet this terrible stranger? Through an app called Whisper on her handheld device (yep, the one her parents bought her). And Whisper is only one of many dangerous apps, apps that every parent should be aware of. The Scary Truth “The bad guy’s not just at the bus stop anymore.
New apps are constantly being created, so it’s important to monitor what your child downloads. Whisper - This app allows you to post secrets anonymously and also allows you to chat with other users in your geographic area. Why It’s Dangerous: Many children are drawn to communicating with strangers, feeling that their secrets are safer with them than with their friends. YikYak - All Yik Yak users are anonymous. Kik - A free app-based alternative texting service that allows texts/pictures to be sent without being logged in the phone history. The First Company To Build Your Identity Into Your Phone Wins The Next Decade. Editor’s note: Rebekah Cox is a product designer at Quora and previously a product design lead at Facebook.
This post is a followup to a recent tweet, and first appeared on Quora. It’s important to understand what identity isn’t: Identity is not a password, it’s not root access, it’s not your calendar, it’s not your email, it’s not a technical achievement, it’s not your location, it’s not a user account in a system, it’s not your contacts and it’s not a feature. So, what is identity? I think in its most basic form, your identity is the product of how you manage your attention and others’ access to that attention. Those areas where your attention is focused assemble to form a set of experiences that shape and influence where you’ll direct future attention. Then there’s the phone. Email works so well because it is another opportunity for access and people have formed a collective habit of actively directing attention toward their inboxes at regular intervals. [Image via typedvorak.com.] The 'Busy' Trap. Anxiety: We worry.
A gallery of contributors count the ways. If you live in America in the 21st century you’ve probably had to listen to a lot of people tell you how busy they are. Teenage Sexting Is Becoming The Norm. “Under most existing laws, if our findings were extrapolated nationally, several million teens could be prosecuted for child pornography,” explains a new study on teen sexting, which finds that a whopping 28% of teenagers text fully-nude pictures of themselves.
We took a deep dive into the much reported Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine article, and found some weird insights into a 21st century trend that is quickly becoming the norm among teenagers. 1. White kids love sexting. More than any other demographic (Hispanic, African American, and Asian), white students reported sexting in the highest percentage (35%), nearly double that of Asians (19). African Americans were a somewhat distant second at 27%, followed by Hispanics (21%), and Asians. 2. 3. Thousands of Twitter passwords exposed. Twitter is investigating the release of what appear to be thousands of user account passwords and e-mail addresses.
"We are currently looking into the situation. In the meantime, we have pushed out password resets to accounts that may have been affected," Twitter spokesman Robert Weeks told CNET in an e-mail. "For those who are concerned that their account may have been compromised, we suggest resetting your passwords and more in our Help Center. " The user data, so vast that it took five Pastebin pages to post, was released yesterday and blogged about on Airdemon.net, putting the number of accounts affected at 55,000 or more. It's unclear who posted the data, and why.
Weeks disputed that estimate, noting that many of the passwords and accounts seemed like duplicates. Twitter Downplays Breach That Exposed Passwords - Security - Attacks/breaches. Nearly 60,000 Twitter usernames and passwords released via Pastebin, but social networking service says half are for blocked spam accounts or duplicates.
Tens of thousands of Twitter users' email addresses and passwords have been dumped online. The leaked information, comprising 58,978 username and password combinations, appeared Monday on Pastebin. While Twitter said that it's investigating the breach, it’s also downplayed the supposed size and severity of the data dump. "We are currently looking into the situation," said spokeswoman Rachel Bremer via email. NETS for Coaches. What If School Was More Like Twitter. April 17, 2012 by tomwhitby Every educator knows what their school is like, but few really understand what Twitter is like.
The Twitter experience, like school, is different for everyone. One’s contribution to the effort in either of these endeavors has a great deal to do with producing the outcomes. Simply put, the more you put in, the more you get out. That at least is the theory. Teaching kids to be ‘digital citizens’ (not just ‘digital natives’) - The Answer Sheet. This was written by John Merrow, veteran education reporter for PBS, NPR, and dozens of national publications.
He is the president of the nonprofit media production company Learning Matters. Merrow’s latest book is “The Influence of Teachers.” This post first appeared on Merrow’s blog, Taking Note. By John Merrow I often hear adults describing today’s young people as “digital natives,” usually with a tone of resignation or acceptance: “They are so far ahead of us, but we can turn to them for help,” is the general message I hear. Hacked DC School Board E-Voting Elects Bender President. Kids' Cognition Is Changing—Education Will Have to Change With It - Megan Garber - Technology.
This morning, Elon University and the Pew Internet and American Life Project released a report about the cognitive future of the millennial generation.
Based on surveys with more than 1,000 thought leaders -- among them danah boyd, Clay Shirky, David Weinberger, and Alexandra Samuel -- the survey asked thinkers to consider how the Internet and its environment are changing, for better or worse, kids' cognitive capabilities. How Target Figured Out A Teen Girl Was Pregnant Before Her Father Did. Apple’s iPad and the Human Costs for Workers in China. Fighting cyber-bullying in the classroom. Oh Shit, I’m A Racist. What If This Is No Accident? What If This Is The Future? The New Luddites are back, and they’re packing heat.
The mighty Economist writes of “the disturbing thought” that “America’s current employment woes stem from a precipitous and permanent change caused by not too little technological progress, but too much … A tipping point seems to have been reached, at which AI-based automation threatens to supplant the brain-power of large swathes of middle-income employees.” The New York Times chimes in: “technology is quickly taking over service jobs, following the waves of automation of farm and factory work.”