You Are What You Post
Posted December 4th, 2009 at 9:30 am by Lucas Mast, Blog Editor
One Comment / Filed in: online safety
The nature of the online and mobile environments is rapidly changing and so are the challenges for teachers and parents – from digital-reputation management to addressing cyber-bullying. Kids need to be in control of their online persona – that is the ways in which they represent themselves online, and how that persona can have an impact throughout their lives. In this day and age, you are what you post!
Today marks Yahoo!’s third annual CyberCitizenship Summit in Sunnyvale, Calif. addressing the leading issues youth face today – digital reputation management and cyberbullying. Along with our co-hosts, Technology for Learning Partnership, we are bringing together more than 180 educational leaders from around California, child safety experts, and local law enforcement leaders to address how to guide students’ online persona. With an increase in Internet and mobile gadgets coming into the home this holiday season, teachers and other participants will come away with real and practical information to help them understand the online environment in which their students live and toolkits to help students manage their digital reputations.
Over the years, Yahoo! has worked collaboratively with industry peers, child safety groups and law enforcement with the common goal to find new ways to protect children online. At this year’s summit, we are thrilled to partner with some of the most notable national child safety experts to offer educational leaders guidance on digital literacy.
Presenters include:
Anne Collier, ConnectSafely
Marsali Hancock, iKeepSafe Internet Safety Coalition
Larry Magid, ConnectSafely
Diana Paradise, Technology for Learning Partnership
Catherine Teitelbaum, Yahoo! Safely
Glenn Warren, Orange County Office of Education
In advance of the summit, we worked closely with iKeepSafe.org, and sponsored the development Project PRO – a hands-on curriculum guide and a resource kit to help educators coach youth on protecting and managing their digital reputation, and strategies to keep youth safe from bullying. Summit attendees will be guided through the program and implementation strategies and be provided with the kit for immediate use at their school site.
Hosting this summit is just one of the ways we work to help foster a safer experience for children. To learn more about digital reputation management and tips for preventing cyberbulling, visit safely.yahoo.com.
Catherine Davis Teitelbaum
Director of Policy for Child Safety
Tagged: child safety, connectsafely, cyber bullying, cybercitizenship, education, ikeepsafe, online safety, orange county, project pro, safely, technology for learning partnership, yahoo
One Comment Add your own
Nailart | December 8th, 2009 at 2:20 am
Posting stupid comments, weird photos or bashing each other is just the same as kid’s done in earlier day’s before the internet.
All of us have done things in our childhood that we regret now. They used to disappear when we grew up and were never to be mentioned ever after.
Kids have to learn that the internet doesn’t forget and bashing someone else can really hurt them in many way’s.
It’s very good that this is picket up now. Even adults don’t always get it.
Educate the kid’s and the people!
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