HomePage: Teaching kids (and parents) social media
Now I know you lot are pretty tech-savvy, but your kids might need a little more education. In fact, I know you agree with me; we asked a while back if social media should be taught in schools, and the consensus was a frankly overwhelming ‘duh’.
Tonight there might be a (legal) jailbreak
We’re relatively safe where I live in the UK when it comes to ripping CDs, unlocking phones and all that fairly basic stuff – but believe it or not, it was actually illegal to do that sort of thing until late last year, and it’s still illegal for our readers across the Atlantic. But that could change.
What we learned this week #34
This week on Quib.ly has been all about the three Rs: reading, writing, and arithmetic. Let’s run down the stuff we learned this week!
Instagram’s dramatic policy shift and how it affects you
You could now star in an advertisement without your knowledge, thanks to Instagram’s new terms of services. Will the change prompt you to quit using the service?
Should schools track your kid?
With GPS-wiredapps in their smartphones and tracking chips in their ID cards, students have had a much harder time pulling a Ferris Bueller.
What we learned this week #19
This week we (sadly) learned that a 9-year old had to hand over the laptop to the police and (happily) realized that the internet isn’t really a dark and dangerous place. Also we want to know if you agree or not with Eric Schmidt when he says: ‘have online privacy talk before sex talk’
Is the internet really a dark and dangerous place?
Julie Lynn Evans, ‘one of the [UK’s] foremost child psychotherapists’, says it can be. She is ‘convinced that the internet… makes any problem more urgent, more dramatic’ and that has resulted directly in a worsening in the behaviour of teens.
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Bald Beliebers and internet rumours
Ah, for the halcyon days of the playground rumour – from numerous stories about Michael Jackson’s death (way before it actually happened) to tales of the PS4 being available in Japan as early as 1998.
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