Savvy Cyber Kids exists to enable youth, families and school communities to be empowered by technology. We believe that the adults in young people’s lives have a responsibility to guide young people with a comprehensive cyber safety and cyber ethics education. After all, today’s youth are growing up in a [...]
Like many parents, you may be wondering if your child’s passion for gaming is time that should be spent on academics. Fear not, the ever-burgeoning world of gaming—with 2.2 billion gamers in the world, that’s more than 25 percent of the entire global population—and $108 billion in video games sales [...]
In 2017, Harvard rescinded acceptances to a group of youth because their online behavior, in the form of memes, was offensive. Read more about it here. Well, it’s almost back to school which means it’s time to remind your kids that their stupid behavior as teenagers, when preserved online, can [...]
There was a time when a gamer was considered a young person at home in a dark room littered with fast food remnants, engaging only with the game and not with another person for hours and hours on end. Today—thanks to multiplayer online games—the act of gaming is no longer [...]
Raising a ‘savvy cyber kid’ does not just happen. It takes involved parents – parents who are aware of their kids’ online activities and more than a few ‘tech talks’ before a child will begin to absorb the basic premises of cyber safety and cyber ethics. After all, some of [...]
Back to school is almost here and our kids are getting ready to greet the new school year with excitement and anticipation. As our kids get older, we hope that some of the earliest lessons from preschool years are still remembered, lessons like ‘be kind to others’ and ‘treat others [...]
According to the New York Times, in an article titled, The Ads Think They Know You, most ads that you see online are “tailored just for you’...and ‘powered by vast, hidden datasets that allow advertisers to make eerily accurate guesses about who you are, where you’ve been, how you feel [...]
A recent story has been making the rounds across social media platforms, news outlets and inboxes far and wide. Boy meets drunken girl at a party, brings her to a basement, where he sexually assaults and rapes the young woman while filming the encounter. The family court judge defended the [...]
No doubt, by now you have heard of phishing, the fraudulent practice of using emails, DMs or texts that end up taking you to a copycat websites pretending to be from a reputable company in order to get you to reveal personal information, such as account numbers, Social Security numbers, [...]
In the Digital Age, we are spending more of our day online and less time IRL (in real life). From shopping and dating to learning and teaching, our interactions online are having a greater influence on how we and others see ourselves, how we think, and how we see the [...]
