Comments on: Last Night’s Forum http://www.johblogs.com/2008/04/last-nights-forum.html Because I Can Tue, 31 Jan 2012 01:01:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Joh http://www.johblogs.com/2008/04/last-nights-forum.html/comment-page-1#comment-787 Joh Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:45:03 +0000 http://www.johblogs.com/2008/04/last-nights-forum.html#comment-787 Everything you say is true, yet I have given up expecting anything of others as parents, we all have our blind spots. I think understanding the technology is really only a small part of what young people today have to cope with. I think about the issue of cyberbullying itself, it has the potential to be publicly humiliating in ways that schoolyard bullying could never be - on a mass scale. I imagine this could be overwhelming for all involved and once done, can be difficult to reverse or undo. Everything you say is true, yet I have given up expecting anything of others as parents, we all have our blind spots. I think understanding the technology is really only a small part of what young people today have to cope with. I think about the issue of cyberbullying itself, it has the potential to be publicly humiliating in ways that schoolyard bullying could never be – on a mass scale. I imagine this could be overwhelming for all involved and once done, can be difficult to reverse or undo.

]]> By: Bettina http://www.johblogs.com/2008/04/last-nights-forum.html/comment-page-1#comment-784 Bettina Thu, 17 Apr 2008 04:12:47 +0000 http://www.johblogs.com/2008/04/last-nights-forum.html#comment-784 Yes that's quite true. Though it would seem to me that if you are going to have a technology in your home that at least one of the adults in the home should know how to use it. And really, getting the kids to show them is a great excuse to sit down and do something together isn't it? I heard him (MCG) speak last year at our school - he's very good. But like you there were some things that I wished he would have expanded on. Yes that’s quite true. Though it would seem to me that if you are going to have a technology in your home that at least one of the adults in the home should know how to use it. And really, getting the kids to show them is a great excuse to sit down and do something together isn’t it?

I heard him (MCG) speak last year at our school – he’s very good. But like you there were some things that I wished he would have expanded on.

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