by Caroline Isautier | Feb 23, 2021 | Digital Citizenship, Featured
National Day of Unplugging is an awareness campaign that promotes a 24-hour respite from technology annually observed the first weekend in March. It came out of the US where, for more than a decade, schools, religious institutions and businesses have used our...
by Caroline Isautier | Feb 16, 2021 | Digital Citizenship, Education
Digital Citizenship / Digital Literacy Education for grades K to 12 As parents were caught off guard by the rise of online media, teaching young people of all ages in school to be safe and private when they’re online is crucial, not only for healthy social...
by Caroline Isautier | Feb 16, 2021 | Digital Citizenship, Education
Learning to decode digital media like social media, video games & the web 2019 is the year Google turns 31, Facebook 15, and the iPhone 12 years old. Its also the year where we citizens, blinded clients of whiz bang Big Tech, are taking back control of digital...
by Caroline Isautier | Feb 8, 2021 | Digital Citizenship, Featured
Tuesday, February 9, 2021 is Safer Internet Day (Internet Sans Crainte), an initiative launched in the EU and now global. In Canada, Tech for Good Canada is organizing an informal talk on keeping kids, teens and young adults safe online February 9 at 1 PM Eastern (...
by Caroline Isautier | Jan 25, 2021 | Digital Citizenship, Tech for Good
Its now becoming common knowledge our every moves online are surveilled by default, without our explicit consent, when we use the Google browser and search engine, then Google Docs, then surf over to YouTube or Google Maps. Or when we’re on Facebook, or its...
by Caroline Isautier | Jan 17, 2021 | Digital Citizenship, Tech for Good
Our small organisation planned an open, free event called Tech: Surveillance by Design ? in January 2021, as a way to raise awareness on the pernicious design patterns in the everyday Tech tools we use, whether at work or at home. These design patterns include...
