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hope to see some of you on our Christmas Family Tech Gift Stream tonight starting at 6pm PST!

LIVE Stream Events Happening Today:
@ 4pm PST | 7pm EST - Weekly Update Show
@ 6pm PST | 9pm EST - Family Tech Gift Safety Guide
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#ChildSafety #CyberSafe #CyberSafety #DigitalLiteracy #DigitalParenting #FamilySafety #OnlineSafety #Parenting

This is the #1 family router on the market that we recommend to families, and we are giving one for free to a viewer who joins us on our live event Tues Nov 25 (tomorrow) starting at 6pm!

This is the #1 family router on the market that we recommend to families, and we are giving one for free to a viewer who joins us on our live event Tues Nov 25 (tomorrow) starting at 6pm!

Tomorrow is our 2025 Family Tech Gift Safety Guide FREE live event - November 25th - 6 PM PST | 9 PM EST. And we have got a Gryphon Router to give away

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#ChildSafety #CyberSafe #CyberSafety #DigitalParenting # #Parenting #Parenting101 #ParentingTips #Parents

More giveaway items are coming for our FREE special holiday live event, “2025 Family Tech Gift Safety Guide,” on November 25th at 6 PM PST | 9 PM EST - Pinwheel Phone
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#ChildSafety #CyberSafe #Parenting #Safety #SafetyFirst #SafetyTips #ScreenTime

When Lived Experience Collides With Research: Navigating the Tug-Of-War - Youth and Technology Parents trust their instincts, shaped by real moments and stories, while research looks at bigger patterns that personal experience can miss. When those collide, decisions about phones, social media, ...

When Lived Experience Collides With Research: Navigating the Tug-Of-War. This article explores why that gap exists, why both experience and research matter, and how parents can use both to make balanced decisions that respect their child’s needs. www.thewhitehatter.ca/post/when-li...

Sneak peek of a giveaway during our special FREE holiday live event, “2025 Family Tech Gift Safety Guide,” on Nov 25th at 6 PM PST | 9 PM EST - Cosmo Watch
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As mentioned, these new safety features aren’t perfect. They also don’t replace the importance of good parental oversight, rules, and engagement. #Roblox #Gaming #DigitalLiteracy

Why Online Radicalization Deserves Every Parent’s Attention: The Rise Of The Neo-Nazi Recruiter Online radicalization has shifted from fringe pamphlets to real-time recruitment in the same digital spaces where young people socialize. Extremist groups now use livestreams, chat apps, and gaming pl...

Why Online Radicalization Deserves Every Parent’s Attention: The Rise Of The Neo-Nazi Recruiter www.thewhitehatter.ca/post/why-onl... #digitalliteracy #onlineparenting #radicalization #onlinesafety

The White Hatter: Weekly Update Nov 18 YouTube video by The White Hatter

LIVE Today we’re chatting about: 🕹️ Netflix Party Games 📞 Android Call Recording 💬 ChatGPT Group Chats 🔍 LinkedIn AI Search
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#TechNews #TechUpdates #ArtificialIntelligence #chatgpt #AI #EdTech #OnlineSafety #DigitalSafety #DigitalWellness #DigitalLiteracy #Netflix

Why We Think Project Based Learning in Secondary Schools Is A practical Way To Overcome Today’s AI Concerns Around Learning and Assessment AI is changing how students learn, but it doesn’t have to replace real thinking. Project based learning gives schools a way forward by focusing on creativity, collaboration, and problem solving rather...

Why We Think Project Based Learning in Secondary Schools Is A practical Way To Overcome Today’s AI Concerns Around Learning and Assessment thewhitehatter.ca/post/why-we-... #digitalliteracy #schools #teachers #artificialintelligence

We Do Not Recommend AI Toys This Christmas, and Here’s Why AI toys are being marketed as this year’s must-have Christmas gift, but many parents don’t realize the risks behind the glowing screens. From age-inappropriate answers to hidden data collection and de...

We Do Not Recommend AI Toys This Christmas, and Here’s Why www.thewhitehatter.ca/post/we-do-n... #digitalliteracy #onlineparenting #christmas2025 #aitoys

Protection Is a Byproduct of Education:Why Honest Conversations About Healthy Human Sexuality, Consent, and Online Risk Matter Now More Than Ever! A high school invited us in with a bit of hesitation, unsure how students and parents would react to a frank conversation about sexting, sextortion, consent, and the law. Ninety minutes later the gym ...

Why Honest Conversations About Healthy Human Sexuality, Consent, and Online Risk Matter Now More Than Ever! thewhitehatter.ca/post/protect... #digitalliteracy #onlinesafety #onlineparenting

AI and the Evolution of Human Hacking & Online Predation: AI has taken “human hacking” to a new level. What once relied on clumsy phishing emails is now powered by tools that mimic voices, writing styles, and even faces with eerie precision. This article bre...

AI and the Evolution of Human Hacking & Online Predation: thewhitehatter.ca/post/ai-and-... #digitalliteracy #OnlineSafety #onlineparenting #artificialintelligence

Toy Story 5’s Villain is a Tablet, The Irony! Toy Story 5 introduces a new villain, a talking tablet named LilyPad, and some adults are cheering. The film leans into a familiar fear that technology is stealing childhood, but history shows these p...

Toy Story 5’s Villain is a Tablet, The Irony! www.thewhitehatter.ca/post/toy-sto... #digitalliteracy #onlineparenting #onlinesafety #righttechrighttime

Holiday 2025 Family Tech Gift Safety Guide Thinking of gifting a new smartphone, computer, game console, or smart TV this holiday season? At The White Hatter, we’ll share our recommendations, thoughts, and insights on how to prepare for new te...

2025 Family Tech Gift Safety Guide - Join us LIVE on YouTube Tuesday, November 25th @ 6pm PST | 9pm EST
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Why Teens Are Turning to AI for Mental Health Support A recent Nov 2025 study published in JAMA revealed a growing trend every parent  and caregiver should pay attention to, that being teens and young adults are increasingly turning to artificial intelli...

Why Teens Are Turning to AI for Mental Health Support thewhitehatter.ca/post/why-tee... #DigitalLiteracy #onlinesafety #mentalhealth

How a Compassionate, Scaffolded, Evidence-Based Approach Better Serves All Youth and Teens When It Comes To Technology Calls to delay youth access to smartphones and social media until 14 or 16 often sound protective, but evidence shows they can backfire. Safety doesn’t come from age-based bans, it comes from guided e...

How a Compassionate, Scaffolded, Evidence-Based Approach Better Serves All Youth and Teens When It Comes To Technology thewhitehatter.ca/post/how-a-c... #DigitalLiteracy #onlinesafety #onlineparenting #pavetheway

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I recently spoke with CBC's Manjula Selvarajah about the deeply problematic #BillS209 "Verified age-gating on the internet" www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

We Can’t Depend on App Store Ratings to Be Accurate Parents often trust app store age ratings when deciding what their kids can download, but that trust may be misplaced. Research by the Canadian Centre for Child Protection found that many ratings fail...

We Can’t Depend on App Store Ratings to Be Accurate www.thewhitehatter.ca/post/we-can-... #digitaliteracy #onlineparenting #onlinesafety

False Equivalency Causes Moral Panic When It Comes To Youth & Technology : Two Case Studies Two recent online claims sparked this article: one equating smartphone use with heroin addiction, another citing a non-existent “University of Vermont dopamine study.” Both fuel moral panic through fa...

False Equivalency Causes Moral Panic When It Comes To Youth & Technology : Two Case Studies www.thewhitehatter.ca/post/false-e... #digitalliteracy #onlinesafety #moralpanic #onlineparenting

We're Not The Anxious Generation In his best-selling book, The Anxious Generation, Jonathan Haidt argues that smartphones have “rewired” childhood and broken a generation. He calls Gen-Z the least flourishing generation in modern hi...

For those who have not read this article you need to joanganzcooneycenter.org/2025/11/06/w...

When World Leaders and Influencers Use Unverified “Zombie” Statistics: A Guide for Parents and Caregivers When a nation’s leader claims “60% of 11–19-year-old boys didn’t see a single friend in their free time” because of phones, it sounds alarming, but no credible study supports it. This unverified stati...

When World Leaders and Influencers Use Unverified “Zombie” Statistics: A Guide for Parents and Caregivers thewhitehatter.ca/post/when-wo... #digitalliteracy #onlineparenting #factsnotfear #juvenoia

The Emotional, Intellectual, and Spiritual Attachment of AI — A Lesson From Policing, It’s All About Rapport and Building Trust! Drawing on Darren’s 30 years in policing and training in Neuro Linguistic Programming, this article explores how AI companionship apps use the same rapport-building methods once used by skilled interr...

The Emotional, Intellectual, and Spiritual Attachment of AI — A Lesson From Policing, It’s All About Rapport and Building Trust! thewhitehatter.ca/post/the-emo... #DigitalLiteracy #onlineparenting #artificialintellgence #companionshipapps

We’ll unpack what AI means for learning, creativity, safety, and the future of digital literacy. You still have time to register and be part of the conversation that every adult guiding kids online needs to hear.

🎥 Reserve your spot now — it starts tonight! 6pm (PST)

🚨 Tonight’s the night! 🚨
Join us live for our virtual presentation on what every parent, caregiver, and educator needs to know about Artificial Intelligence, and how youth are already migrating toward this powerful new medium. www.crowdcast.io/c/raising-ai...

When Eye Rolls Become a Validation: Why That’s the Wrong Measure of Success in Digital Literacy & Internet Safety Education Some presenters claim success when parents say their kids rolled their eyes after a safety talk, but that’s not connection, it’s disconnection. Eye rolls don’t mean learning happened; they show frustr...

When Eye Rolls Become a Validation: Why That’s the Wrong Measure of Success in Digital Literacy & Internet Safety Education www.thewhitehatter.ca/post/when-ey... #digitalliteracy #OnlineSafety #onlineparenting

Deepfake Nudes and the Law: What Parents, Caregivers, and Adults Should Know About a New Ontario Court Ruling A recent Ontario case, R. v. Kapoor (2025 ONCJ 542), ruled that sharing a fake nude of a spouse is morally wrong but not a crime under current law. The judge found deepfake nudes fall outside Canada’s...

For our Canadian readers - Deepfake Nudes and the Law: What Parents, Caregivers, and Adults Should Know About a New Ontario Court Ruling www.thewhitehatter.ca/post/deepfak...

When AI Meets the Holidays: The Scams Parents Should Watch for This Christmas Season This holiday season, artificial intelligence is reshaping shopping—for both good and bad. While AI helps families find thoughtful gifts faster and easier, scammers are using the same technology to clo...

When AI Meets the Holidays: The Scams Parents Should Watch for This Christmas Season www.thewhitehatter.ca/post/when-ai... #digitalliteracy #onlinefraud #Christmas2025 #OnlineSafety