Generation YES Blog » kids http://blog.genyes.com Thoughts About Empowering Students with Technology Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:22:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 The Youngest Speaker at TED Advocates “Kid’s Eye View” http://blog.genyes.com/index.php/2010/03/07/the-youngest-speaker-at-ted-advocates-%e2%80%9ckid%e2%80%99s-eye-view%e2%80%9d/ http://blog.genyes.com/index.php/2010/03/07/the-youngest-speaker-at-ted-advocates-%e2%80%9ckid%e2%80%99s-eye-view%e2%80%9d/#comments Sun, 07 Mar 2010 22:54:51 +0000 Sylvia Martinez http://blog.genyes.com/?p=2063 During her time on the stage at TED, Adora advocated a sort of “Kid’s Rights” sentiment, arguing that adults should take young people more seriously and be more interested in learning from kids to foster a more reciprocal relationship between age groups. She says that because kids tend to be less constrained by social norms than adults as we get older, young people can often offer a unique and perhaps more creative, out-of-the-box approach to problems.

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This free guide from OnGuardOnline.gov tells parents and teachers what they need to know to talk to kids about issues like  Net Ceteracyberbullying, sexting, mobile phone safety, and protecting the family computer.

I’ve taken a look at this guide and like it. It’s sensible, straight-forward, and best of all, not fear-based. It contains positive messages about Internet use and real facts (what a concept!) It addresses parents of teens, who need different information than younger children.

Best of all, it’s FREE. You can order the print version of Net Cetera in English or Spanish. If you need lots of them, for your whole school, for example, bulk orders are available from the government printing office. Yes, your tax dollars being used for something useful!

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There is a nice article about it in the The Christian Science Monitor if you need more information.

Sylvia

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