What Your Kids Really Need To Know About Digital Citizenship
Vicki Davis, a blogger for Edutopia, lays out the "9 Key Ps" of digital citizenship in her post for teachers, but the list applies to parents concerned about the issue as well...
Have you tried to use your usual, easy to remember password when logging into Xbox, Skype, or even Microsoft Word and it didn’t work? That is because Microsoft is banning them. Microsoft will now require users to have an eight character password that will be checked against common passwords typically targeted by hackers. Although these efforts are intended to reduce the number of successful hackings, there are no signs of hacking attempts ending anytime soon - Microsoft says that 10 million of its users’ accounts are attacked each day.