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Kids are using their phones to do everything: Is this a good thing?

“Can you please send that link to my email?” I ask, innocently. I prefer to open the link and order whatever it is my teen needs on my desktop rather than my phone.

Cell Phones and Texting, Cyber Security, Parents

Digital Media Literacy for Democracy

Level: Grades 9 to 12

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Authenticating Information, Journalism & News, Marketing & Consumerism

New research from MediaSmarts shows educational videos encourage people to fact-check

April 30, 2025

Ottawa, ON - New research released from MediaSmarts shows that educational videos like the ones featuring the house hippo as part of the Break the Fake campaign encourage people to fact-check and avoid sharing false information.

Texting, and communication, has changed

There is one place getting more attention lately for increasing the quality of conversations: in-person.

Cell Phones and Texting, Digital Health, Instant Messaging, Parents

The gift of art in the age of AI

Original digital art takes patience and skill. While yes, you could ask ChatGPT to recreate something similar with the right prompt, it doesn’t come close to the heart or care that was put into this original artwork and it doesn’t quite look the same.

Artificial intelligence, Parents

Clone of Fact checks

The following fact-checking videos have been produced by teens for teens. The viral claims they chose to fact-check touch on a range of topics from the environment, health, science and food to beauty products, social media trends and even presumed “weird” local bylaws that caught their attention.

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I was tricked by an AI image online

We have been witnessing a rising crescendo of conversation happening around AI and fake images online. It’s always been an issue, Photoshop and all, but it feels like there’s a snowball effect happening; AI is moving at speeds that we just can’t comprehend or keep up with.

Artificial intelligence, Authenticating Information, Parents