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The Online Mom provides internet technology advice and information to help parents protect their kids, encourage responsible behavior and safely harness the power of technology in the new digital world. Social networking, photo sharing, video games, IM & texting, internet security, cyberbullying, educational resources, the latest on tech hardware, gadgets and software for kids 3-8, tweens and teens, and more.
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What's Next
When it comes to technology, you can count on only one thing: tomorrow will
be
different from today. There will be new technology. People will
use it new ways. And,
since young people tend to be at the forefront of those changes, you better believe
they'll
affect you and your family. On this page, we'd like to quickly preview a
few of the major
trends just now showing up on the horizon. Some may fade. Some may explode. These
stories are yet to be told: keep visiting this page, and we'll keep you
posted!
Total mobile Internet access. The iPhone heralds an age when
anyone can get the
Internet anywhere, including your kids. And tomorrow's super-high-speed
wireless
services will make the mobile Internet as fast and as video-centric as today's 'home'
Internet is becoming. But how do you control what your kids are viewing and doing
online when they're nowhere near home?
iPods in school. K-12 schools are experimenting with the use
of MP3 players and
podcasts in everything from language teaching to guided reading assignments. And
colleges and universities are taking to them big time: right now, you can download
lectures from dozens of the best schools in America, from Yale to UC Berkeley.
eBooks finally coming of age? With Amazon's Kindle - and
its broad selection of $9.99
books that folks actually want to read - there are signs that eBooks just
might finally be
catching on.
Toddlers and screens. Even toddlers don't want old-fashioned 'analog' toys anymore:
last holiday season, reports The New York Times, six of Amazon.com's
nine best-selling
toys for 5-to-7-year-olds were tech gadgets. But, as The Times also reminds us,
the
American Academy of Pediatrics recommends no screen time for children 2 and younger,
and no more than 1-2 hours a day of quality content for older kids.
Personal location devices. Need to know exactly where
your kids are? Where they really
are? With features like Sprint's Family Locator or Verizon's
Chaperone, now their
cellphones can tell you.
Green computing. In an age of global warming and soaring energy
costs, folks are
noticing just how much energy computers use. And, with the green computing movement, they're beginning to respond. The future: computers that don't
just hibernate,
but turn themselves off when not in use... smaller and more energy efficient computers...
computers whose parts are less hazardous and easier to recycle.
Second Life, and beyond. As 'virtual worlds' become
bigger, more realistic, and more
diverse, what rules will evolve there? What ethics? What morality? What will be
the
impacts - positive and negative - on those who choose to
live ever larger parts of their
lives in these immersive virtual environments?
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