| Jan 24, 2017 | Parents Articles, Teachers Articles, Teenagers Articles
Do you ever feel like your phone heats up when you put your phone to your ear? How much do you think that impacts your health… particularly your brain? Read on to find out what science tells us about the health risks of too much cell phone use.
| Jan 23, 2017 | Parents Articles, Teachers Articles
Facebook Likes? Dangerous? No way!
The Facebook like button is arguably the most recognized social media currency ever created, but you may not know how much people can find about you based on what you like.
| Jan 22, 2017 | Parents Articles, Teachers Articles, Teenagers Articles, Young Teens Articles
YouTube is a great social media platform with a lot of great videos. However, you may come across something hateful or abusive. Learn how to report videos and abusive comments to let YouTube know that something should be taken down.
| Jan 19, 2017 | Parents Articles, Teachers Articles, Teenagers Articles
Have you heard of the Amanda Todd’s cyber bullying story? She became a household name after her tragic story was published in 2012. Listen to what some American teenagers have to say about her story and the implications of cyberbullying.
| Jan 18, 2017 | Parents Articles, Teachers Articles, Teenagers Articles
How many posts by online extremists do you think get uploaded online each week? How many do you think stay online for a while? We can help governments delete extremist content online. Find out more.
| Jan 18, 2017 | Parents Articles, Teachers Articles, Teenagers Articles, Young Teens Articles
Do you know someone who is being bullied and could use a source of inspiration? Check out this in-depth list of 87 anti-bullying quotes and provide a source of inspiration and uplift society as a whole.
| Jan 16, 2017 | Parents Articles, Teachers Articles, Teenagers Articles, Young Teens Articles
Do you know how to report abuse on Instagram? It’s important to know how to do it before you get an account. Find out what you should do when you come across something inappropriate on Instagram.
| Jan 15, 2017 | Parents Articles, Teachers Articles, Teenagers Articles, Young Teens Articles
Indian actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan got news coverage at the India Today Safaigiri Awards in New Delhi after her remarks about social media. She implied that social media has made people lazy. “We are very quick with excuses. Work, routine, lifestyle, social media...
| Jan 12, 2017 | Parents Articles, Teachers Articles
Over the past couple of years, Oman has seen reports on cyber blackmail increase in alarming rates. Several news publications in Oman recently reported a new campaign about cyber blackmail. Do you think it will work?
| Jan 11, 2017 | Parents Articles, Teachers Articles, Teenagers Articles, Young Teens Articles
If you own a smartphone, it’s pretty fair to say you use (or at least know someone who uses) Snapchat. If you snap videos to your friends all day – like most people do – Snapchat just released something really cool, and it gives people a new way to film and post...
| Jan 10, 2017 | Parents Articles, Teachers Articles
Did you know that there are certain types of content that could not allow you into certain countries? Learn about some of the things GCC nationals have posted and got sent back for…
| Jan 9, 2017 | Parents Articles, Teachers Articles, Teenagers Articles, Young Teens Articles
Do you use Gmail every day? If you do, you’re one of the 1 billion people (as of February 2016) who actively use it. That said, do you know how to keep your Gmail secure? Out of all the well-known email services available right now, Gmail is arguably perceived as...
| Jan 8, 2017 | Teachers Articles, Teenagers Articles, Young Teens Articles
Have you heard the story about the middle school teacher and her fake Facebook page? It led to a campaign called #ICANHELP (Delete Negativity on Social Media). Learn more about it in this article.
| Jan 5, 2017 | Parents, Teachers, Teenagers (14-18), Young Teens (10-14)
Have you ever come across an Internet troll before? Chances are you probably have. Find out more about who they are and what you can do to protect yourself from them.
| Jan 2, 2017 | Parents Articles, Teachers Articles, Teenagers Articles, Young Teens Articles
Did you know that you can format comments on YouTube in the same way you can for Microsoft Office documents? Read on to find out how to make your YouTube comments stand out with just a few extra symbols. The 3 YouTube Comment Effects YouTube now allows users to post...
| Dec 27, 2016 | Parents Articles, Teachers Articles, Teenagers Articles, Young Teens Articles
Cyber bullying is a phenomenon that has existed for a while now. However, there are some people out there who don’t think it’s as serious as real bullying. 13-year-old Luke Culhane made this powerful video to debunk this myth, and to spread awareness about how to...
| Dec 25, 2016 | Teachers Articles
“Whatever people [are] doing … they tend to be happier if they focus on the activity instead of thinking about something else.” – John Tierney (“When the Mind Wanders, Happiness Also Strays,” New York Times) Did you know that the average attention span of a...
| Dec 19, 2016 | Parents Articles, Teachers Articles, Teenagers Articles
What is Instagram doing to prevent cyber bullying in 2016? Well, as part of their commitment to make Instagram a safe space for people to express themselves, they unveiled something to further prevent the issue. What Is This New Instagram Tool That Prevents Cyber...
| Nov 17, 2016 | Parents Articles, Teachers Articles
If you use the Internet, chances are you have Facebook account. In fact, Facebook posted in July 2016 that there are now over 1.71 billion users on Facebook. But most of us know that not all Facebook profiles are real. Many of them are fake. In fact, Facebook’s...
| Nov 16, 2016 | Parents Articles, Teachers Articles, Teenagers Articles, Young Teens Articles
Do you need help going managing your privacy on Facebook? Do you know how to review your Facebook posts, for example? Do you know whether your online friends can view the things you post on your profile? If you don’t, no worries at all. Facebook has made it a little...
| Nov 15, 2016 | Parents Articles, Teachers Articles
Has this ever happened to you on LinkedIn? You wake up in the morning and you open your LinkedIn account… probably for the first time in weeks. You see that someone added you on LinkedIn! Of course, if you’re somewhere in the Middle East, you know how important it is...
| Nov 9, 2016 | Parents Articles, Teachers Articles, Teenagers Articles, Young Teens Articles
Do you want to know how to adjust your WhatsApp privacy settings? It’s simple. Just follow these instructions. (They are the same for iPhone and Android users.) Adjust WhatsApp Privacy Settings with These Steps: Once you have WhatsApp open on your phone: Step 1 Go to...
| Nov 8, 2016 | Parents Articles, Teachers Articles, Teenagers Articles, Young Teens Articles
Are you worried about your Facebook privacy settings? Do you already know the basics and want to know how to better protect your information on Facebook? Not to worry. We’re going to go through some of the advanced options Facebook provides in the ‘See More Settings’...
| Oct 31, 2016 | Parents Articles, Teachers Articles, Teenagers Articles, Young Teens Articles
Online predators are hard to recognize at first; they seem just like anyone else when they sit behind a computer screen and you don’t know what their intentions are. They use fake accounts with fake profile pictures and fake information, so it’s really difficult to...
| Oct 30, 2016 | Parents Articles, Teachers Articles
What do you know about Internet security? (How many of those facts do you think are internet safety myths?) If you’re like most people, you probably know some best practices, like coming up with a strong password and installing anti-virus software to protect you from...
| Oct 27, 2016 | Parents Articles, Teachers Articles, Teenagers Articles
Be honest: do you ever worry about one of your accounts getting hacked? Do you wonder what you would do if someone pretended to be you and stole your information? Do you ever think about how to avoid getting hacked? Well, of course! This is one of the main concerns we...
| Oct 16, 2016 | Teachers Articles
Sextortion: it sounds like a made up term, right? Not only is it a real problem, but it relates to a lot of sex-related cybercrimes that happen on a daily basis. Cyber exploitation in the form of sextortion happens quite often, and your students could be at risk to it...
| Oct 16, 2016 | Parents Articles, Teachers Articles, Teenagers Articles
Catfish are everywhere, and they’re becoming a huge problem on the Internet. No, we’re not talking about the ones in the ocean; we’re talking about the fake profiles on social media and online apps. How do you know if you’re talking to a catfish online? Well, we’re...
| Oct 12, 2016 | Quizzes for Teachers
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| Oct 11, 2016 | Parents Articles, Teachers Articles, Teenagers Articles, Young Teens Articles
Is someone you don’t know annoying you on WhatsApp? Do you want to know how to block them so they can’t contact you again? We will show you how to block people on WhatsApp step by step. Block People on WhatsApp (for Both iPhone and Android Users) In order to block...
| Sep 26, 2016 | Parents Articles, Teachers Articles, Teenagers Articles, Young Teens Articles
Do you use Twitter? If not, is it because you worry about strangers writing hateful messages to you? If so, Twitter’s Quality Filter might be relevant to you. Twitter’s New Feature: Tweet Filtering In a blog post (2016), Twitter’s product manager Emil Leong...
| Sep 26, 2016 | Parents Articles, Teachers Articles, Teenagers Articles, Young Teens Articles
Here’s an interesting question for you: “Do you view your Internet friends as real friends, even if you’ve never met?” Before you answer, I’ll bet I could figure out whether you answered yes to that question. Generally speaking, someone who was born before the...
| Sep 26, 2016 | Teachers Articles
Some schools take bullying seriously. Others don’t. Daniel Fitzpatrick, a 13-year-old boy from Staten Island, New York, is making headline news because he took his own life after writing a letter saying that his teachers didn’t do anything about being bullied by (at...
| Sep 26, 2016 | Parents Articles, Teachers Articles, Teenagers Articles
Why do we see more stories of online bullying happen online nowadays. It’s partly because there are some key differences between cyber bullying and traditional bullying.
| Sep 20, 2016 | Parents Articles, Teachers Articles
There is no question that Milo Yiannopoulos is a controversial figure in the eyes of the mainstream media… at least in the Western World. He has made headline news, as Twitter suspended his account permanently after making some questionable tweets that made fun...
| Sep 4, 2016 | Parents Articles, Teachers, Teenagers (14-18)
Do you feel like you and your family spend too much time on the Internet? A 48-hour digital detox could be the perfect solution for you. Read more to learn more about it.
| Sep 4, 2016 | Parents, Parents Articles, Teachers, Teachers Articles, Teenagers (14-18), Teenagers Articles
There is a lot of hacking going on nowadays, and everyone’s panicking. You can’t even trust professional companies like your phone providers to safeguard your private information anymore! In this post, we’re going to show you how to become unhackable by...
| Jun 14, 2016 | Parents Articles, Teachers Articles, Teenagers Articles, Young Teens Articles
Did you know that you can share a YouTube video at a specific time? Why Should I Learn How to Create Links to Start and End a YouTube Video? Linking to a particular time in a video can be really helpful and be very effective in presentations when you want to refer to...
| May 17, 2016 | Teachers Articles
It sounds crazy, doesn’t it? What can students actually learn about cyber safety in a Meghan Trainor pop song? (Hint: NO, it’s not what you think.)
| Apr 11, 2016 | Teachers Articles
How often do paedophiles chat with underage kids on social media? How often do you think your child would respond? It might be more often than you think.
| Apr 5, 2016 | Teachers Articles
Did you know that thousands of teens reportedly skip school every day because they are bullied? Find out just how easy it is for your student to be exposed to cyberbullying.
| Apr 5, 2016 | Teachers Articles
Online radicalization: You’ve heard the term, but what is it exactly? Teachers need learn more about how extremist groups use social media to groom children online.
| Apr 4, 2016 | Teachers Articles
Online grooming and cyber exploitation are on the rise. As more people access the Internet, more children become exposed to inappropriate content in chat rooms and on social media.
| Mar 29, 2016 | Parents Articles, Teachers Articles
Are teens in the GCC safe from strangers online? Take a look at these social media statistics (emph. online safety). from ICDL Arabia’s 2016 Cyber Safety survey. Share them with a loved one if they shock you.
| Mar 29, 2016 | Quizzes for Teachers
Take the following quiz to find out what type of teacher personality you have.
