Mission:

The “Inspect Your Gadgets” programs, seminars and workshops
will heighten awareness; provide practical tips; and lay out holistic
plans of action and responses to parents, teachers and children on
the dangers posed by new and emerging technology.

Methodology:

High tech personal presentations to:
PTA’s and other parent groups;
Middle and High school orientations;
Classroom presentations;
Teacher in-service workshops;
Website materials (www.inspectyourgadgets.com)]

Issues and Topics

•        Internet Sexual Predators
•        The Porn Plague
•        COPPA – Children’s On-line Privacy and Protection Act
•        Internet Scams
•        Spam, Viruses, Worms and Trojan horses
•        Consumer Skills For Children and Young Adults
•        Identity Theft
•        Illegal Internet Downloads and their consequences
•        Academic Honesty – On line plagiarism vs. valid research
•        High-tech cheating and its consequences.

Resources:

Existing Federal publications from the FCC and the Missing Children’
s Foundation, The FTC’s Identity Theft program, the federally
funded program from Web Wise Kids that includes the free
distribution to schools of the interactive game “Missing”, I-Safe
America curriculum,  the Net Smartz program from the partnership
of Boys and Girls Clubs of American and the Missing Children’s
Foundation and the “Parent Technology Survival Handbook” and
accompanying CD containing free software tools for families
provided by Brannon Consulting.

Mission

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