Resource #1
Title: Cellphone Safety
Brief Description: This article reports parents' behavior and what they're doing wrong, such as when parents are driving and do not wear a seat belt, they're on their cell phone, or they're speeding on the road.
Review: This article gets a 4.5 out of 5. The article tells you what's happening with cellphones inside of cars, but it doesn't tell you how to fix the problem.
Key Points:
1. A survey that was taken says that " 60% of teens polled claim their biggest influences when it comes to driving have been their parents"
2. Teens sometimes learn by watching which is why the article also said "Teens reported they engaged as often in the same behaviors AND between 29 and 33 percent of respondents said that they didn’t view cell phone use, speeding, or not wearing a seat belt as inherently unsafe"
3. In a drivers’ ed class in North Liberty, Iowa, an instructor that knows his lectures alone are useless puts his students into driving simulators and makes them use cell phones while they navigate a course. His class learns very quickly that even the simplest distraction costs them critical seconds on the road and in reaction time
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1. A survey that was taken says that " 60% of teens polled claim their biggest influences when it comes to driving have been their parents"
2. Teens sometimes learn by watching which is why the article also said "Teens reported they engaged as often in the same behaviors AND between 29 and 33 percent of respondents said that they didn’t view cell phone use, speeding, or not wearing a seat belt as inherently unsafe"
3. In a drivers’ ed class in North Liberty, Iowa, an instructor that knows his lectures alone are useless puts his students into driving simulators and makes them use cell phones while they navigate a course. His class learns very quickly that even the simplest distraction costs them critical seconds on the road and in reaction time
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Resource #2
Title: Cell Phone Safety Tips
Source: http://www.safekids.com/cell-phone-safety-tips/ (Re-posted from ConnectSafely.org)
Brief Description: Provides basic list of cell phone applications including some of the negative aspects of current features (such as social mapping, media sharing by phone, and text messaging costs.
Review: Explains the social networking tools of cell phones and lists some precautions, but not offer an in-depth discussion of how to talk with children about some of the risks associated with social networking via cellphones.
Key Points:
Mobile safety in general. Phones should only be used to communicate with people they know in the real world.
Bullying by phone. Since young people’s social lives increasingly fold in cell phones as well as the Web, cyberbullying and harassment have gone mobile too. Talk with your kids about how the same manners and ethics you’ve always taught them apply on phones and the Web as in “real life.”
Mobile social networking. Many social sites have a feature that allows users to check their profiles and post comments from their phones. That means some teens can do social networking literally anywhere, in which case any filter you may have installed on a home computer does nothing to block social networking. Talk with your teens a using the same good sense about how they’re social networking on their phones.
Social mapping. More and more cell phones have GPS technology installed, which means teens who have these phones can pinpoint their friends’ physical location – or be pinpointed by their friends. Talk with your kids about using such technology and advise them to use it only with friends they know in person.
Media-sharing by phone. Most mobile phones we use today have cameras, some videocams – and teens love to share media with friends on all types of mobile devices. There is both a personal-reputation and -safety aspect to this. Teens need to understand their own and others’ privacy rights in sharing photos and videos via cell phones.
‘Smart phones.’ Smart- or 3G-phone features usually include the web. That means more and more people can access all that the web offers, appropriate or not, on their phones as well as computers. Mobile carriers are beginning to offer filtering for the content available on their services, but they have no control over what’s on the web. Parents of younger kids may want to consider turning off web access and turning on filtering if they’re concerned about access to adult content.
Text messaging costs. On some mobile services, a single text message can cost 15 cents to send and a couple of cents to receive. Check to see if your carrier has flat-rate texting that can be included in your child’s or family’s service plan.
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Mobile safety in general. Phones should only be used to communicate with people they know in the real world.
Bullying by phone. Since young people’s social lives increasingly fold in cell phones as well as the Web, cyberbullying and harassment have gone mobile too. Talk with your kids about how the same manners and ethics you’ve always taught them apply on phones and the Web as in “real life.”
Mobile social networking. Many social sites have a feature that allows users to check their profiles and post comments from their phones. That means some teens can do social networking literally anywhere, in which case any filter you may have installed on a home computer does nothing to block social networking. Talk with your teens a using the same good sense about how they’re social networking on their phones.
Social mapping. More and more cell phones have GPS technology installed, which means teens who have these phones can pinpoint their friends’ physical location – or be pinpointed by their friends. Talk with your kids about using such technology and advise them to use it only with friends they know in person.
Media-sharing by phone. Most mobile phones we use today have cameras, some videocams – and teens love to share media with friends on all types of mobile devices. There is both a personal-reputation and -safety aspect to this. Teens need to understand their own and others’ privacy rights in sharing photos and videos via cell phones.
‘Smart phones.’ Smart- or 3G-phone features usually include the web. That means more and more people can access all that the web offers, appropriate or not, on their phones as well as computers. Mobile carriers are beginning to offer filtering for the content available on their services, but they have no control over what’s on the web. Parents of younger kids may want to consider turning off web access and turning on filtering if they’re concerned about access to adult content.
Text messaging costs. On some mobile services, a single text message can cost 15 cents to send and a couple of cents to receive. Check to see if your carrier has flat-rate texting that can be included in your child’s or family’s service plan.
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Resource #3
Title: Cell Phones
Brief Description: Provides tips for kids to use cellphones safely and also a summary of discussion topics with children regarding the safe use of mobile devices.
Review: Provides safety tips for using cellphones and discussing usage with kids in brief, easy-to-follow format. Basically recommends that parents and children should consider cell phones an extension of the Internet and use the same safeguards regarding sending and receiving images, texts, instant messaging.
Key Points:
1) Article cites that 75% of teens (12-17) carry cell phones and 1 in 3 teens use their phones to access the Internet.
2) Reminds parents to talk with kids and remind them that anything sent in a texst can be easily forwarded and shared.
3) Teach children to not reveal cell numbers or passwords online.
4) Discuss issues and consequences of 'sexting', i.e., sending sexually explicit images or text messages.
5) When shopping for cell phones for children, research the security settings that are available.
6) Review phone recors for any unknown numbers or late night phone calls or texts.
7) Keep an open dialogue with children about their use of mobile devices and to inform parents if they receive inappropriate text or images.
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1) Article cites that 75% of teens (12-17) carry cell phones and 1 in 3 teens use their phones to access the Internet.
2) Reminds parents to talk with kids and remind them that anything sent in a texst can be easily forwarded and shared.
3) Teach children to not reveal cell numbers or passwords online.
4) Discuss issues and consequences of 'sexting', i.e., sending sexually explicit images or text messages.
5) When shopping for cell phones for children, research the security settings that are available.
6) Review phone recors for any unknown numbers or late night phone calls or texts.
7) Keep an open dialogue with children about their use of mobile devices and to inform parents if they receive inappropriate text or images.
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