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Kids Who Grow Up Using iPads Have Restricted Vocabularies 26 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
It’s natural to learn new vocabulary by hearing a word and then repeating it until we memorize and internalize it. But with kids spending so much time interacting with digital gadgets through text on ...
BEaPRO Mobile™: Connect with Confidence workshops highlighted on Verizon Wireless News Center 23 Aug 2013 | 11:26 am
iKeepSafe’s award winning BEaPRO Mobile™: Connect with Confidence workshops are currently featured on Verizon Wireless’ News Center. Since its inception back in April, the program has continued to e....
iKeepSafe Launches New Parent Toolkit 12 Aug 2013 | 11:35 pm
iKeepSafe launched its Parent Toolkit last Friday at an event hosted by the Utah Foster Care Foundation in Murray. “You are the first generation of parents that have to deal with digital devices,” iK...
Pinterest and Privacy 9 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
Pinterest is a wildly popular social media site that allows you to collect resources about a particular topic by “pinning” images to a “board,” kind of like the stuff you’d pin to a bulletin board ov...
Before You Click “I Agree” on Behalf of Others 8 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
A blog, an email account, and a photo storage program are all technology services which many of today’s consumers have used and even embraced. While they can be used for business purposes, many use s...
Looking into the Crystal Ball: The Future of Learning 7 Aug 2013 | 03:04 pm
What experiences will we have a week from now, a month from now, six years from now? We can often make predictions, but whether or not they come to fruition, only time will tell. What will the classro...
BEaPRO™: Choose smart phone apps to balance digital use 6 Aug 2013 | 07:31 pm
The first concept in iKeepSafe’s BEaPRO™ acronym is balance of digital usage. At AppCertain, we help parents manage their family’s iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch and one of the biggest requests we’ve re...
Weighing the Pros and Cons of Mobile Applications 31 Jul 2013 | 03:00 pm
Rapper Jay-Z found himself the target of unexpected backlash last week. The rap mogul, known for his business savvy, was initially praised after he announced a plan to give away 1 million copies of hi...
Ask.fm and Ask Again 29 Jul 2013 | 11:20 pm
By: Piper Graber, age 14 This image is from the home page of Ask.fm. Account is public. Last month my mom wrote on this blog about an incident that happened in my 8th grade class: A student in our ...
Teens and the Fear of Missing Out (FOMO) 18 Jul 2013 | 07:28 pm
As I come home each day from work, I often find myself surrounded by teenagers in the Metro. Instead of talking to each other, all of their eyes are focused on a screen of some sort. In today’s 24/7 s...
