Digital Smarts - Schools in Australia Test Using Emojis as Part of Classroom Communication

Wish you had someone other than your child to turn to when you have a question about the technology they use? The Parents Page of the A Platform for Good site can help...

An excellent article on the Common Sense Media site reviews 15 social media sites and apps that many kids are now using.

School is still a way off but it is never too early to figure out what technologies can help kids succeed...

Can’t get the family to put their gadgets down long enough to have a quiet meal together? Try DinnerTime (free on iOS and Android). The app is designed to be installed on both parents' and kids' smartphones...

If you are involved in any kind of legal action, it is not uncommon for lawyers and private investigators to look at your social media posts and social networking pages for insights on your behavior and your actions...

Parenting in the era of the smartphone poses a wide spread series of debates. Arguing that having a smartphone can actually help you spend more time with your children, an article in The New York Times Bits blog entitled You Don’t Have to Feel Very Guilty About Using Your Smartphone While Parenting looks at a week in which a parent was able to balance working and being there for a preschooler off from a week of school...

Common Sense Media has compiled a list of digital tools for managing your kids’ tech use. Some of these ideas include taking advantage of the safety mode in YouTube, how to keep kids focused on one app at a time (and away from your email and private files), and fine-tuning what cookies get added to your browser...

In an effort to bring back creative thinking and problem solving into the lives of young students, makerspaces are cropping up all over the United States...

Two new free eBooks for kids - Animishmash and the Cyber Bullfrog (for ages 7 and up) and The Pirate's Donut (for ages 3 and up) – deal with the subjects of cyberbullying and safe online searching, respectively.

Whose job is it to instruct kids on how to safe online? In a worldwide survey of 1800 teachers done by AVG, a security company, four out of five teachers think parents are relying too much on schools to teach internet safety...