Sites that are Potentially Damaging Ask.fm A website where users can ask and answer others’ questions with the option of doing so anonymously. Bash Board An online bulletin board on which individuals can post anything they want. Often, posts are malicious and hateful...
There is nothing scarier than imagining a kid sitting in their room feeling victimized and very much alone. Bedrooms are not the safe havens they used to be thanks to cyberbullying. Yet, we can’t be with our kids 24/7 so we must be informed and preventative in our...
New forms of cyberbullying are creeping up every day. Non-consensual pornography seems like it would only happen to adults who are dating. Would teenagers get themselves into something like this? I like to think of adolescents as innocent but I’ve met some pretty racy...
GIRLsmarts4tech is an outreach program aimed at inspiring girls to explore technology. Founded through the University of British Columbia’s Computer Science Department, the program is now jointly presented by UBC and an industry partner, SAP. GIRLsmarts4tech reaches...
Articles are circulating about the dangers of the ever ubiquitous Wifi. Let’s be honest, the thought that our beloved Wifi is actually harmful to our health would, well, harm our health! But take heed because the results are inconclusive. It seems to me that our...
Hello! It’s Jodi, founder of Imperative Education. You know, ever since I can remember I’ve been interested in how people communicate… how relationships are formed. At McGill University, I studied Communications so that I could take this focus from intuition to fact, and from serious interest to passion. I decided to become a teacher, like so many, to make a difference and that initial goal hasn’t paled at all throughout the years