Videos to teach other teens about social media, technology, and adolescent brain development.

UNC-Chapel Hill PSYC 180 students created these videos to teach other teens about social media, technology, and adolescent brain development.
https://www.teensandtech.org/videos/teens-teaching-teens #schoolcounseling

Kindness Online for Kids - 2022 | Internet Safety for Kids & Families

Key Learning Objectives

• Understand the true meaning of kindness and why it’s important
• Learn how to deal with unkindness online

https://www.trendmicro.com/internet-safety/for-kids/cyber-academy/kindness-online

Parent’s Guide to TikTok

TikTok is an entertainment platform that lets people create and share short videos. People love using the platform’s tools, filters, and special effects to combine video, music, and graphics into funny sketches, informational videos, and creative shorts. The app’s users often emphasize quirkiness and novelty, and in that respect, TikTok is helping expand the creative frontier of the internet.

Read more: https://www.connectsafely.org/parents-guide-to-tiktok/

Guide to Teen Sextortion Scams

Sextortion Plots Target Teens, Especially Boys 14-17

The FBI has reported a “huge increase” in sextortion scams targeting young people, both from strangers and people they know. Read how to prevent it and recover from it in ConnectSafely's new Guide to Teen Sextortion Scams.  

https://www.connectsafely.org/sextortion/

Digital Reputation and Cyberbullying Presentation

Information technology in general, and social networking in particular, affords us tremendous power for communicating and collaborating seemingly at the speed of thought. In a matter of moments, the boundaries between our personal and professional lives can become blurred and the consequences grave. This presentation will help kids to be more intentional about the development and management of their online reputation.

https://schoolcounselor.com/digital-reputation/

Parents Level Up on Monitoring Their Kids’ Video Games

 

Parents Level Up on Monitoring Their Kids’ Video Games

Written by Patricia E. Vance, President, ESRB

AUGUST 11, 2021

Every year ESRB conducts a survey to see whether parents are aware of and use the many tools we provide to help them manage their kids’ video game experiences. This is a great opportunity for us to gain a better understanding of how parents use ESRB-assigned age and content ratings, implement household rules, set parental controls, and more. While the country tries to open back up and find a new “normal,” we found many similarities to last year’s survey results as parents take their knowledge about the video games their kids play to the next level.
The latest survey results indicate several key trends.
Read more: 
https://www.esrb.org/blog/parents-level-up-on-monitoring-their-kids-video-games/

Are Youth Sexting Rates Still on the Rise? A Meta-analytic Update

 

This meta-analysis of sexting research (28 studies, 58k youth) found pooled prevalence rates of 19% sending, 35% receiving, and 15% forwarding nudes without consent. Higher than we'd like (but this is our reality). We agree rates have likely plateaued. https://t.co/lYrQm8cAql pic.twitter.com/qpLwiGWOSj

— Sameer Hinduja (@hinduja) August 1, 2022