by Caroline Isautier | May 19, 2022 | Digital Citizenship, Featured
A study, published in Nature, May 11, 2022, seems to claim playing video games makes kids smart. The study looked at 9,855 children from the USA who took part in the ABCD study – a long-term study of brain development and health of children in the United States, aged...
by Caroline Isautier | Mar 10, 2022 | Digital Citizenship
Governments around the world are crafting or attempt to craft laws to protect children online. We look at online child protection legislation and proposed legislation in France, the UK, California, Canada and the US below since 2018. As we discuss in our remote...
by Caroline Isautier | Nov 25, 2021 | Digital Citizenship
You’re not a tween or teen, or even a 20-something adult and are wondering what in the hell is the TikTok app? Its actually a new type of studio and television, catering mainly to the 7 to 20 year old group. First, I’ll detail what this incredible...
by Caroline Isautier | Nov 14, 2021 | Digital Citizenship
Running a TikTok & Instagram challenge for teens for Tech for Good Canada has made me ever more aware of the “Weapons of Mass Distraction” they are, making them truly bad for youth health, mental and physical. The catch is underrepresented...
by Caroline Isautier | Oct 22, 2021 | Digital Citizenship, Tech for Good
Who are some of Canada’s youth activists that are using TikTok to further their cause ? This is part of the We Stop Scrolling research project Tech for Good Canada embarked on in September 2021 with Ontario Tech University’s innovative Steam-3D Maker Lab....
by Caroline Isautier | Oct 3, 2021 | Digital Citizenship
In September 2021, the Wall Street Journal published a series of internal Facebook reports, now known as The Facebook Files, that show Facebook knew its negative impact on teenagers’ mental health, societal polarization, misinformation, and more.The revelations...
