Digital Smarts - Schools and Internet Safety

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Brian Pitts, the technology director at the Longview Independent School District in Texas, suggests that setting rules is not enough to ensure safety of our children online.  In the article, “Is your house safe from tigers?”, Pitts says that being vigilant in monitoring behavior is key to making sure our children are safe on the Internet. Though it is written for schools, his humor and message that cyberbullying is more of a danger to kids than phishing by hackers is right on target.