Internet+Safety

[|Police: No charges in gay teen bullycide]

-This article talks about a 14 year old boy that had gone through some sericous bullying during his first year of highschool and eventually took his life on Sept 18. There was a police officer that was very concerned and wanted to know if there was some information that had been left out on the case and descided to investigate further.

-For me i find this article devistating. I feel like if there was enough bullying going on for this young boy to take his life that there had to be some major signs for his family and friends and teachers to catch. I believe that teachers need to be watching for signs like these among there students and not let bullying this bad happen while in there care.

[|Drug war sends emotionally troubled kids to Texas]

-This article talks about kids that are in the middle of the mexican war. This is a major strain on them emotionally and some physical. Teachers are seeing and are stumped by what to do.

-This article is also outrageous for me to hear about. I never had to deal with the drug wars when i was growing up, i had never heard of such a thing when i was havv.ing to go through school. It was hard enough to make it through school everyday let alone with all that added stress. I guess as a teacher you would have to accomodate their learning needs around thier environment. You would also have to be very understanding to what is going on at home.

[|Apple, Amazon lead big on black friday]

-This article contained a lot of information about the ipad and the kindle and how the kindle was leading in sales since it was 300$ cheaper than the ipad.

-As for students and teachers as well i find that the kindle being so much cheaper could be a good thing. Finding cheaper items that students can use to read with is always a plus, even thought the ipad can do more stuff literacy if a major skill and need for students. I would hold the kindle above the ipad at this point in time, but the way that technology is changing there is no telling what may change next.

[|Microsoft cuts black friday prices on Kinect, laptops, and games]

-This was also an article on black friday and cutting prices down. Microsoft is new to the store world but seem to be getting the handle on it by the after thanksgiving shopping crowd, and by cutting prices was the way to do it.

-Cutting prices is one of the smartest ways to get people to buy more of their products and from the article it looked like they had quiet a crowd. Most of their products are geered for the younger adults and children so this really brought in the customers. Having cheaper prices on products is inevitably going to bring in customers.

[|Facebook agrees to FTC agreement of privacy]

-This article tells us about the law suit that was made against facebook and the changes they made in 2009 on there privacy settings. it also informs us on how they are going to have to conduct there future changes and having to inform its users.

-This could be used with teacher internet usage, you could use this as an example of how you need to be careful of what you put on the internet because you never truely know who can see and who can get a hold of all your personal information. You will need to tell students to just take caution when going about social networks and other online sites.

[|Cognitave Benefits of Chewing Gum]

-This article was the amazing ways that gum can be used to stimulate the brain. Just by chewing gum a group of students that were tested had a higher score on a test than students not chewing gum. So the conclusion to a test, was that chewing gum stimulates the brain.

-This was very bizarre to me, but if test were proven that this was true i would say that all students should be given some gum during the day to stimulate there brain while working on school work. i dont see a down side to this as long as there are not sticking gum on the walls or on each other. It seems like a good way to get a little jump on better grades.

[|How blind athletes get there game on]

-This article tells about all different types of games that blind people can play and how they accomadate them for their needs.

-I believe that this is good for teachers to know in case they have a disabled child that is blind so that they can accomodate games and other activities to fit that child.