{"id":8325,"date":"2013-06-08T14:32:20","date_gmt":"2013-06-08T19:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=8325"},"modified":"2013-06-08T14:32:20","modified_gmt":"2013-06-08T19:32:20","slug":"ask-the-audience-internet-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2013\/06\/08\/ask-the-audience-internet-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask the audience: Internet safety"},"content":{"rendered":"

I<\/span>m doing a presentation to a group of parents next week on Internet safety. I’ve got my information all pulled together and I’m putting it into a powerpoint slideshow. I’d love your input on either things that worry you or actions you’ve taken at home to make sure your kids can surf safely. We’re mostly talking about elementary school aged kids, and I’m mostly focusing on the junior years (Grades 4 – 6).<\/p>\n

To me, there are five major risk areas:
\n– stumbling across (or searching out) inappropriate content
\n– phishing, malware and malicious downloads
\n– inappropriate disclosure of private information
\n– cyberbullying and stranger danger
\n– unexpected costs or bills from things like in-app purchases<\/p>\n

I’m choosing to mainly focus on privacy and cyberbullying, because these are behavioural issues more than technology issues, and because they are the ones that worry me personally the most. But have I missed any other significant risk kids face online?<\/p>\n

I’ve got a set of 10 tips for safe family surfing, which I’ll share after the presentation. (Disclosure: still fine-tuning those!) But would you care to share the steps you take to “cyber-proof” your kids? (Hmmm, I think I just came up with a new title for the presentation. “Cyber-proof your kids!”) As a parent, is there anything you would like more information about?<\/p>\n

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And just out of curiousity, do you use parental controls on your computer?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Im doing a presentation to a group of parents next week on Internet safety. I’ve got my information all pulled together and I’m putting it into a powerpoint slideshow. I’d love your input on either things that worry you or actions you’ve taken at home to make sure your kids can surf safely. We’re mostly … Continue reading “Ask the audience: Internet safety”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mothering-without-a-licence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8325"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8327,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8325\/revisions\/8327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}