A Parent’s Guide to Kik from ConnectSafely

Kik is a community chat app that allows users to connect with brands or chat one-on-one or in groups, with text, emojis, memes, videos and photos. Teens love Kik because it’s an “in the moment” experience, without the profile curation fatigue they can feel on other apps, where their photos, videos or status updates are “judged” in the form of likes, shares or comments, and “live on” until removed. Teens worry less about creating a “permanent record” of posts and pictures that can affect them later in life. Teens also like that they can be anonymous on Kik.

Read more:
A Parent’s Guide to Kik from ConnectSafely
http://www.connectsafely.org/kik/

Digital Citizenship Activities

Ten Ideas to Encourage Appropriate Technology Use Among Students

Sameer Hinduja, Ph.D. and Justin W. Patchin, Ph.D.

Access document at https://cyberbullying.org/Digital-Citizenship-Activities-Educators.pdf

B.I.O.N.I.C. “Prevent Bullying by Just Saying H.I.”

Love this program!

Learn more at http://www.bionicteam.org/tag/bully/

How to Spot Victims and Help Them

Source: Human Trafficking: How to Spot Victims and Help Them | Time.com http://time.com/4871378/human-trafficking-signs-report/

Victims and tipsters can call the National Human Trafficking Hotline at 1 (888) 373-7888 or text HELP or INFO to "BeFree" or 233733. All calls can be made anonymously. Reports can also be submitted through the hotline's online form here. If a victim is in immediate danger, authorities urge people to call 911. Concerned citizens should not confront a suspected trafficker or alert a victim to any suspicions, experts say.

Factitious Game: Can you spot the not?

Instagram Now Uses AI to Counter Spam and Offensive Comments

Instagram will now be integrating machine learning software with their platform to get rid of offensive comments and reduce spam too, in a total of nine languages worldwide. 

Learn more: 

http://www.guidingtech.com/68980/instagram-ai-block-spam-offensive-comments/

Be Internet Awesome!

With school out and summer break giving kids more time to spend on the Internet, it’s a great time to introduce Be Internet Awesome: a new way to encourage digital safety and citizenship.

https://blog.google/topics/families/be-internet-awesome-helping-kids-make-smart-decisions-online/