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What We’re Reading: Parents on Facebook, Tips for a Healthy Summer, SnapKidz

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Posted : July 19, 2013/ 0 Comments

by Lynette Owens

Week of July 15, 2013

Welcome to our inaugural What We’re Reading update!  To help you keep up with what’s going on with kids, families, schools, and technology, we’ll compile a list of interesting stories our team’s been reading over the past week.  What have you been reading? Tell us below or Tweet @TrendISKF

  • NEW STUDY: Teens who friend their parents feel closer to them in real life.  Yes, really!
  • NEW TECH: Are Your Children Using Snapchat?  If you didn’t know, SnapChat came out with an under 13 version of their photo sharing app a few weeks ago.  Why this version, called SnapKidz, is useless.
  • HELPFUL TIPS: The Center on Media and Child Health at the Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital offers 6 ways to help your kids stay healthy this summer.
  • HELPFUL TIPS: If your kids are using your iPad much more this summer, see these easy tips on making tablets safe for kids from Cool Mom Tech.

See you next week!

 

Tags :cell phonesdigital citizenshipdigital literacyeducationFacebookinternet safetyipadkidsmedia literacymobileparentssnapchatsocial networkingtablets

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Lynette Owens

Lynette Owens is the Founder and Global Director of Trend Micro’s Internet Safety for Kids and Families program. With 20+ years in the tech industry, Lynette speaks and blogs regularly on how to help kids become great digital citizens. She works with communities and 1:1 school districts across the U.S. and around the world to support digital literacy and citizenship education. She is a board member of the National Association of Media Literacy Education and serves on the advisory boards of INHOPE and U.S. Safer Internet Day, and on the national advisor council of Media Literacy Now. Follow her on Twitter @lynettetowens

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