by Martha Custard | Mar 7, 2019 | Administrators, Bullying, Cyberbullying, Digital Citizenship, Digital Safety, Internet Regulations, Learning and the Law, Online Dangers, Parenting, Parents, School Counselors, School Safety, School Violence, Social Media, suicide
David Molak committed suicide at the age of 16 due to cyberbullying. To honor his legacy, David’s family worked with friends and lawmakers to create David’s Law. This law modernizes current anti-bullying laws by making it possible to prosecute cyber bullying...
by Bo King | Dec 6, 2018 | Educational Technology, Online Learning, Parenting, Pedagogy, School Counselors, Social Learning, Teachers
It’s one of the biggest buzzwords in education, but what is social learning? Simply put, social learning is when children learn by watching the people around them. They imitate the things adults model for them, then develop their own patterns of behavior. It’s a...
by Bo King | Nov 29, 2018 | Administrators, Bullying, Cyberbullying, Digital Safety, Online Dangers, School Counselors, School Safety, Suicide Prevention, Teachers, Trauma, Uncategorized
Bullying can often be stopped fairly easily when it occurs openly. Bullying behind the scenes, though, is another matter. How do you know it’s happening at all? The earlier an educator can stop cyberbullying, or prevent it altogether, the better. Here’s how...
by Jonathan Mendoza | Aug 30, 2018 | Digital Literacy, Educational Technology, Online Learning, Teachers
As technology becomes more common in the classroom, many schools are beginning to issue laptops. Several schools have also done away with physical textbooks entirely. Some schools, however, argue that students learn better when using traditional, physical textbooks....
by Jonathan Mendoza | Jul 5, 2018 | Learning and the Law, Parenting, Parents, School Safety, Teachers
A flash drive? Not hardly – it’s a Juul. Designed to look like a USB drive, the Juul is the newest form of e-cigarettes on the rise. But what is a Juul? And why you should be concerned about this growing fad? What’s a Juul? Marketed as an alternative for adult...
