CARLE PLACE, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) — Students at one Long Island school went through withdrawal from Instagram, text messages, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr this week, but they learned they could actually live without their cellphones. As CBS 2’s Jennifer McLogan reported, the unplugging experiment was held at Carle Place High School. Students in Ms. Melissa Mehling’s English [ Read More ]
Archive for May, 2014
Long Island HS Students Challenged To Go A Week Without Cellphones
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Parenting In The Age Of Apps: Is That iPad Help Or Harm?
Comments Off on Parenting In The Age Of Apps: Is That iPad Help Or Harm?When it comes to media, parents all want to know: How much is too much for my child? Dr. Dimitri Christakis, a pediatrician, professor and father of two, has spent a lot of time thinking about the effects of media on young children. Christakis tells NPR’s Arun Rath that not all TV is bad. Some [ Read More ]
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Facebook changes privacy settings
Comments Off on Facebook changes privacy settingsFacebook is tweaking its privacy settings to make it easier for newbies to share their posts privately. The social network, with over 1.2 billion members, says new sign-ups get confused and end up posting their initial status updates publicly, which is the default setting until you go in and change it. That’s about to change, [ Read More ]
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Five Year Old Boy Hacks His Xbox One
Comments Off on Five Year Old Boy Hacks His Xbox OneFor most five year-olds, rule breaking usually consists of jumping in puddles and staying up past bedtime. Not so, for Kristoffer Von Hassel, the son of San Diego security researcher Robert Davies. You see, young Von Hassel managed to discover a major security flaw in the Xbox One gaming console on his own, and Microsoft, [ Read More ]
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Tools and Tips for Monitoring Your Child’s Cell Phone Usage
Comments Off on Tools and Tips for Monitoring Your Child’s Cell Phone UsageNearly 11 percent of 3,767 students interviewed for the Journal of Adolescent Health said that someone bullied them electronically in the past several months. Keeping your child safe from bullies and predators is one of the reasons you should monitor your child’s cell phone usage. However, there are plenty of other reasons you may want [ Read More ]
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