Students: Portable is good
For students shopping for computers these days, “it’s clear what most will be opting for: anything that can be packed up and taken to go,” CNET reports (adding that 90% of Amazon’s top-selling...
View ArticleYoung fashionistas online
Donna Karan’s DKNY line and Sephora, the cosmetics store chain, will now be featured on the digital paperdolls site Stardoll.com. “Stardoll’s rapidly growing Web site has a large audience of teen girls...
View ArticleA teacher on texting
High school teacher Allison Cohen asked 90 of her students about their texting practices where school and academics were concerned and then wrote about it. But in this insightful article at bNetSavvy,...
View ArticleEmail for kids: If? When? How?
Is someone at your house begging for his or her very own email account? Maybe because “all my friends have one”? The question usually comes up before middle school, when “everybody” is getting IM...
View ArticleUndercover Mom in ClubPenguin, Part 1
The first installment of contributor Sharon Duke Estroff’s inside look at kids’ virtual worlds (here’s last week’s intro)…. by Sharon Duke Estroff The first time my eight-year old asked me how to spell...
View ArticleFriends and ‘friends’: Advice for tweens
I’m a long-time fan of author Annie Fox, who teaches life literacy to tweens and teens through her writing and “Hey Terra!” advice site. So it was great to see she has a new book out: Real Friends vs....
View ArticleMost online Chinese youth access Net via phone
Nearly half of China’s 400+ million Net users are under 25, and 75% of those U25s are accessing the Web on their mobile phones, reports Agence France Presse, citing a new survey by the China Internet...
View ArticleAustralian teen panelists on social media: Meaty insights
My visit to Australia for the World Congress on Family Law & Children’s Rights has been rich in hospitality and insight – I’ve had the privilege of talking with people in government, online-safety...
View ArticleTeens on what’s trending in teens’ digital media
Here’s some data and some anecdotal evidence. First the data: A recent survey of teens found that “the world’s largest social network has been replaced by Twitter as US teenagers’ favorite social...
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