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Dr. Kecia Ray: Sep 20, 2022 7:11:56 PM
In 1990, the Center for Disease Control began administering the Adolescent Behaviors and Experiences Survey (ABES). The survey is still being...
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Dr. Lisa Strohman: Sep 8, 2022 1:30:00 PM
In the fall I had a group of mothers approach me after a seminar to ask me about what they were calling ‘picture texting’ as a cause for concern that...
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Josh Ochs: May 10, 2022 3:36:00 PM
Bullying is nothing new. It’s been a common experience for students on the playground and at school. In the past, it’s been easy to physically get...
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Paget Hetherington: Feb 12, 2021 4:27:00 PM
Almost every teenager in the U.S. has personal access to a device with a camera, and the COVID-19 pandemic has made using that camera more useful...
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Tara Skoglund: May 1, 2018 12:33:19 PM
Last week, our Safety Management team received a considerable number of inquiries from educators concerned about the game “Blue Whale,” which has...
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Gaggle: Apr 5, 2018 9:48:27 AM
Every day, students and teachers provide information to social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat and Instagram, whether they are chatting...
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Alex Beck: Oct 26, 2017 8:05:42 AM
Reddit is a massive community of 250 million users built around the concepts of user-created posts and comments sorted by votes. Reddit is comprised...
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Alex Beck: Jul 13, 2017 4:05:58 AM
The number of end-to-end encrypted messaging apps grows larger every day. While they’re not all about State secrets and Edward Snowden, arguments...
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Corey Tutewiler: Apr 17, 2017 8:20:42 AM
Did you notice any peculiar trends on Instagram recently? In efforts to foster a safer, kinder community, tens of thousands of Instagrammers came...
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Alex Beck: Apr 7, 2017 7:29:10 AM
Swarm is a geo-location, social-gaming application that allows users to “check in” at specific locations and share with their social network. A...
