It’s not easy being a kid today. Having grown up before the advent of cell phones, omnipresent cameras, texting and a hyper-connectivity to friends, families and strangers worldwide, I can’t really say which aspects of the digital age would have been a problem for me as a teenager. But, no [...]
These days information comes at us fast and furious. So quickly, that we easily come face-to-face with videos, articles, blog posts and websites that look real and feel authentic, but are fake or at least distorted. Too many of us—no matter what our political leaning—have been victim to misinformation and [...]
Thanks to social media, fans and critics alike have access to celebrities’ lives -- or at least, the version of their lives that celebrities choose to curate online. It’s an insider’s viewpoint that before the advent of social media was simply not possible. Today’s celebrities post on Instagram, share on [...]
I am going to guess that this conversation sounds familiar to you. A librarian was working with students to select books to read and a group of boys shared that they don’t read, that they hate reading. The teacher went through a list of books that the boys might possibly [...]
No need to wait for a new year to roll around for a little introspection that can always be a helpful and healthful approach to making positive changes in your life. Maybe you are taking some time to take stock of the past and to make plans for the future. [...]
As a young person growing up in the Digital Age, your voice has tremendous reach thanks to social media platforms. From Snapchat to Instagram to Twitter and more, you can assert yourself as you wish: to express, to challenge, to inform—and also, to criticize, to mock, to gloat, to hurt [...]
Technology lives and breathes in classrooms across the country. While schools may vary in their level of integration or by the grade-level introduction, what was once something of a controversy, technology education has pretty much become standard fare from K to 12. We can ask ourselves if this is good [...]
As we all know, the power of technology has created convenience and connectivity never known before. Used for good, technology is an awesome and beautiful thing. Used carelessly or for malicious purposes, technology is a terrible beast that cannot be tamed. To keep technology working for your own benefit, you [...]
By Jennifer Geller, Savvy Cyber Kids Contributor Ten incoming freshman to Harvard learned a cyber ethics lesson the hard way. Thanks to their online behavior, Harvard rescinded their acceptance offers. Why? They posted offensive jokes, mainly memes, to a private Facebook group on topics practically pulled straight from a Cards [...]
No matter which side of the political landscape you identify most with, our curious and information-seeking human nature makes us naturally susceptible to news that gives validity to our political, emotional and social leanings. So, what’s a person seeking the truth about what is actually happening in the world around [...]
