What will your kids be doing this summer? Heading to camp, splashing around the local pool, working a part-time job – and maybe still managing to spend oodles of idle time online? How can caring adults keep up their kids’ online summer activity and behavior?
This issue tackles summertime safety online from a variety of viewpoints. In From the Experts, Internet safety expert Nancy Willard offers specific risk prevention tips for parents of children and teens (and see Willard’s downloadable cybersafety handout, available at bNetS@vvy’s Tips and Tools section). In Parents’ Corner, teacher and mother Vicki Davis details four guidelines for building “a family summertime safety line.” Our Teacher’s Desk piece features Paula White, a tech-savvy elementary school teacher who urges parents and teachers to spend the summer learning more about the benefits of social technology. And in our Youth Voices segment, we hear from two typical kids, one age 11 and one age 15, about how they use social technology in their daily lives.
Thanks for reading, and let us know about your tips/strategies for gaming, and Internet/social technology safety. We’re always looking for new contributors to bNetS@vvy, and we invite you to share your stories with us by emailing internetsafety@nea.org. Together we can help young teens make the most of technology – more safely.
Sincerely,
Mary Esselman, editor, bNetS@vvy
January 7th, 2010 at 9:15 am
Thanks for the great tips!