At the end of September, Canadian tech entrepreneurs Julia Cordray and Nicole McCullough announced the pending release of “Peeple,” an app designed to enable users to give one- to five-star ratings to the various people in their lives — basically, “Yelp” for humanity. The reaction to the announcement was, to put it mildly, ferociously negative.…
In the fall of 2010, a young man named Tyler Clementi began his freshman year at Rutgers University in New Jersey. A couple of weeks into the school year, Clementi’s roommate set up a webcam to surreptitiously broadcast an intimate encounter between Clementi and another man. Clementi, a gifted musician, learned about what had happened…
On April 30, the United States Department of Education released a report entitled “Student Reports of Bullying and Cyber-Bullying: Results From the 2013 School Crime Supplement to the National Crime Victimization Survey.” The report contains good news on the cyberbullying front: The percentage of teens ages 12-18 who reported being bullied at school fell to…
If you’re in the area of Erie, Pennsylvania on May 15, think about spending the day at the “Moving Forward: Creating a Community Response to Cyberbullying” Conference at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College. The conference will be held from 9am to 4pm in the college’s Jack Burke Research and Economic Development Center. Registration begins…
Sixteen months ago, David Byttow and Chris Bader created an app called “Secret” that was designed to permit users to anonymously share information with other users, friends, and contacts. The app and the concept of anonymous gossip proved popular: Secret gained as many as 15 million users in a fairly short time, and at the…
2014-08-07 iParentSmart from Frederick Lane A presentation I delivered as a webinar for the National Association of State Directors of Teacher Education and Certification on August 7, 2014. If you are interested in discussing a presentation or professional development program for your organization on this topic, please contact me for information regarding my rates and…
2014-07-08 Social Media Guidelines for Educators from Frederick Lane A presentation I recorded at Arkansas Educational Television Network for the Arkansas Department of Education on July 8, 2014. If you are interested in discussing a presentation or professional development program for your organization on this topic, please contact me for information regarding my rates and…
2014-06-24 iAdmin Smart [NASDTEC] from Frederick Lane A presentation I delivered as a webinar for the National Association of State Directors of Teacher Education and Certification on June 24, 2014. If you are interested in discussing a presentation or professional development program for your organization on this topic, please contact me for information regarding my…
iTeachSmart: Helping Professional Educators Avoid Cybertraps from Frederick Lane A presentation I delivered as a webinar for the National Association of State Directors of Teacher Education and Certification on May 22, 2014. If you are interested in discussing a presentation or professional development program for your organization on this topic, please contact me for information…
2014-03-27 Impact of Technology on Clinical Evaluations: Cyberstalking, Cyberbullying, Sexting, and Sextortion from Frederick Lane A presentation delivered remotely to the San Diego Psych Law Society on March 27, 2014. If you are interested in discussing a presentation or professional development program for your organization on this topic, please contact me for information regarding my…
