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AI, cyberbullying hot topics at safety conference
by Larry Magid This post first appeared in the Mercury News. I’m on my way to Washington, D.C., for the Family Online Safety Institute’s (FOSI) annual conference. I have attended almost all ...
Parent’s Guide to TikTok
What parents should know about TikTok, the wildly popular app that merges some of teenagers’ favorite things—social media and music—together on a platform where they can have fun creating content ...
Parent’s and Educator’s Guide to Combating Online Hate Speech
How parents and educators can help prevent children from experiencing or engaging in hate speech as well as dealing with it in healthy ways when they encounter it.

The Parent’s Guide to Roblox
Roblox is an online entertainment platform for play that allows people to create games for the public using Roblox’s digital tool known as Roblox Studio. There are literally millions of ...
Data refute President’s linkage between violent video games & mass shootings
In his address to the nation following a weekend of two mass shootings, President Trump made a reference to violent video games, suggesting that these games may have something to ...
Overall increase in cyberbullying — girls 3 times more likely to be cyberbullied than boys
The National Center for Educational Statistics is out with its 2016 to 2017 report on bullying at school. Overall, the bullying rate hasn’t changed much from 2014 to 2015.

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