So– you think your browser history has been deleted. You’re not sure what was deleted, or even IF anything was deleted. Unfortunately, the only way to see if your browser history has been deleted is to recover the full history and compare. We all know that nothing on the internet is ever truly gone. However, the […]
Your library is pinching every penny and really can’t afford to forgo the e-rate discount program through the Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA). On the other hand, though, you have read about the dangers of overfiltering and feel strongly about allowing your community access to all educational resources. What’s a librarian to do? Clean Router
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Beanbag chairs? Check! Extensive picture book collection? Check! Family story time? Check! Homework stations with computers? Check! Internet access? Hmmmm….. For families, no community resource is more valuable than the public library. Research shows having books in the home is strongly linked to kids’ academic achievement later in life, and, for many low- or middle-income
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New research presented at Neuroscience 2016, the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, links large amounts of screen time during childhood and hyperactivity behaviors. Researchers have hypothesized that a great deal of sensory stimulation can predispose young children to attentional deficits like ADHD. Obviously, ethical considerations prohibit testing this theory on human children,
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Rebecca Black was only thirteen years old when her music video, “Friday,” went viral. A deluge of scorn and mockery followed. Six years later, she opened up about her experience in an essay on NBC: “What I Learned from Being a Target of Internet Hate at Age 13.” As parents, when we read about
Video games and online gaming have only increased in popularity since the early days of Pong. Unfortunately, not all gaming content has stayed as innocent as ping-pong. Many mainstream games are growing more and more violent. While parents and educators worry about the effect of intimate interaction with violence, albeit artificial violence, gaming apologists have
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Swipe left. Swipe right. Double tap. Level up– diagnostic complete! Researchers have developed a game for the iPad that allows them to analyze a child’s hand motions to determine whether or not the child is on the autism spectrum. The study, published in the Nature group journal Scientific Reports highlights an aspect of autism
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In a recent interview with online magazine Mirror, Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, outlined his family’s screen time rules. No phones for the kids until age fourteen, no screens at the dinner table, and an evening curfew for the internet. Gates’ three daughters are 20, 17, and 14 years old now, so presumably the rules are
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A recent study suggests elementary school aged children’s risk of developing type 2 diabetes may be affected by large amounts of screen time. The paper, published in the journal Archives of Disease in Childhood, surveyed about 4500 children between nine and ten years of age and measured various health markers like height to weight ratio, fat
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The internet has two big problems: porn and cat videos. What’s wrong with cat videos? Watch our new video below to find out! Keep cat videos in their place with our Clean Router Proven Process! Complete the set-up wizard Name your devices Enable text and email notifications Customize time restrictions Bookmark Settings.CleanRouter.com Order
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