Microsoft has teamed up with the Girl Scouts of America to help make the internet a safer and a more understood place for preteens, teens and adults. The LMK website features an interactive group of Girl Scouts that will be educating teens and parents on internet issues. These issues include cyber bulling, online predators, social networking, tips on technology and advice about issues that face teens today. The Girl Scouts are hoping that teens will be more likely to listen to peers regarding these issues. They will be holding monthly meetings to seek out different internet issues to discuss. The Girl Scouts will be issuing a monthly newsletter for parents about everything that they have learned. They believe that this will help teens and their parents discuss dangers associated with the internet more openly. On LMK teens (and parents) can also take quizzes and polls, read related articles and participate in a question- answer column. This link between Microsoft and the Girl Scouts of America is a tool that teens can use to become empowered and educated on internet safety. This may also help non-computer orientated parents understand more about the things their teens use technologically and dangers that are presented with these types of mediums. This is a great new media resource for teens and parents.
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What a great idea! It is so scary how dangerous the internet is for girls and women. I hope that Girl Scouts will be successful with making the internet safer for girls by educating them and their parents. Go Girl Scouts!
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