Gifts That Should Have Strings Attached
Remember the good old days (a few years ago), when you grimaced over the $99 price tag of the generic MP3 your child wanted for Christmas? The next year there was the iPod Touch, and after that, the wii. Each…
P-Plates for Electronic Devices
In the interest of equipping our students for safe, savvy, and healthy use of technology, Northside Christian College has devised a cyber-education package. Prominent Australian adolescent psychologist Dr Michael Carr-Gregg recommended such training to Queensland educators in late 2011, stating…
The Ten Commandments of Computer Ethics
Parents are responsible for instilling in their children the fundamentals of moral behaviour. We teach them quite young that lying, cheating and stealing are unacceptable and that often negative consequences follow these actions. In this digital age parents have a…
To Friend or Not to Friend? That is the Parents’ Question
Two parents, two different stances on being an online friend with their children: One parent regularly checks her daughters’ Facebook profiles, making sure their privacy settings are strict and inspecting their friends’ posts. She trusts her girls; it’s their friends…
Everything You Could Ever Want to Know about Facebook
Facebook is a regular topic on eQuipped. Today, I want to share a fantastic resource for parents called A Parents’ Guide to Facebook, by Anne Collier and Larry Magid. Prepared by ConnectSafely.org, this document provides a complete guide to using…
