--- title: How We Can Teach Kids to Behave Themselves Online description: Fighting cyberbullying by teach kids digital civility, the end of treaties and more. canonical: https://time.com/4270521/teach-kids-online-behavior/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-03-24T16:33:40.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:00:12.985Z article:section: Ideas og:title: How We Can Teach Kids to Behave Themselves Online og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4270521/teach-kids-online-behavior/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: How We Can Teach Kids to Behave Themselves Online twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # How We Can Teach Kids to Behave Themselves Online by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Mar 24, 2016 4:33 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Mar 24, 2016 4:33 PM UTC **1\.** [**Kids don’t need a digital echo chamber. They need to learn how to disagree and stay civil.**](http://daily.jstor.org/how-to-prepare-kids-for-online-conflict/) By Alexandra Samuel in JSTOR Daily **2\.** [**Are treaties dead?**](http://carnegieendowment.org/2016/03/09/death-of-our-treaties/iuzj) By Jessica Tuchman Mathews at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace **3\.** [**The market alone cannot banish poverty.**](http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/social-mobility-memos/posts/2016/03/23-note-conservatives-market-alone-cannot-banish-poverty-reeves) By Richard V. Reeves at the Brookings Institution **4\.** [**Can listening to podcasts help students learn?**](http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2016/03/the-benefits-of-podcasts-in-class/473925/) By Michael Godsey in the Atlantic **5\.** [**Want to make basketball better? Get rid of the free throw.**](http://www.ozy.com/immodest-proposal/how-to-make-basketball-better-throw-out-the-free-throw/41599) By Shannon Sims in Ozy  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4270521/teach-kids-online-behavior/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4270521/teach-kids-online-behavior/"},"headline":"How We Can Teach Kids to Behave Themselves Online","datePublished":"2016-03-24T16:33:40.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:00:12.985Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4270521/teach-kids-online-behavior/","keywords":["Innovation","Basketball","poverty","diplomacy","cyberbullying","March Madness","podcasts"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4270521/teach-kids-online-behavior/","name":"How We Can Teach Kids to Behave Themselves Online"}}]}] ```