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Archives for December 2010

See ya, 2010! (or c u, 2010!)

December 24, 2010 By Anne Leave a Comment

As of this writing, Google's "Zeitgeist 2010" video, reviewing the top search terms and topics of the year in less than 3 minutes, had been viewed more than 1.6 million times. It tells of the year's struggles, achievements, milestones, tragedies, and losses. It says the fastest-rising search terms of the year were "Chatroulette," "iPad," and "Justin Bieber," Google reports. Here are a New York … [Read more...] about See ya, 2010! (or c u, 2010!)

Filed Under: Social Media Tagged With: 2010, chatroulette, Google Zeitgeist, JibJab, New Year

Oz’s tips on location-sharing for teens

December 23, 2010 By Anne Leave a Comment

Using cellphones for finding out when friends are nearby, for special shopping or dining deals, for discounts from spots where you check in a lot, and for knowing family members are safe and where they're supposed to be is a great thing. And, like all digital technology, it can have its misuses, such as giving out one's location to people for whom, and for whatever reason, that information is not … [Read more...] about Oz’s tips on location-sharing for teens

Filed Under: geolocation, mobile, Social Media Tagged With: ACLU, cellphones, data collection, data location, FTC, LBS, location-based services, location-sharing, mobile technology, smart phones

US parenting & the Net: Study

December 22, 2010 By Anne Leave a Comment

Remember the old "no TV for a week" verdict when we misbehaved? Well, that's being nudged out by the new "no Internet for a week" one, according to the 10th-annual USC Annenberg Center for the Digital Future survey. "Parents are now limiting their children’s Internet access and television use in nearly identical ways," the Center reports. While for years three in five American households restrict … [Read more...] about US parenting & the Net: Study

Filed Under: Parenting, Research Tagged With: Annenberg Center, Digital Future survey, digital media, Internet use, Parenting

FCC’s Net neutrality plan launched

December 22, 2010 By Anne Leave a Comment

The US Federal Communications Commission has voted 3-2 to support its chairman's "Net neutrality" plan for keeping Internet providers from blocking or otherwise interfering with legal content running through their "pipes," the Wall Street Journal reports. The plan had its critics (the vote split along party lines with the 2 Republican commissioners voting against and the 3 Democratic ones voting … [Read more...] about FCC’s Net neutrality plan launched

Filed Under: Law & Policy Tagged With: FCC, Net neutrality

How the Net industry can help get us all to Online Safety 3.0

December 21, 2010 By Anne Leave a Comment

This is great, an early sign of the Internet industry's piece of OS 3.0: what the popular teen social site MyYearbook.com is doing for Reachout.com, a nonprofit support and suicide-prevention site for teens on the social Web (it now has a US base too, but since its start in Australia, that country "has seen a 56% reduction in youth suicide rates," the site says). Here's how Reach Out describes … [Read more...] about How the Net industry can help get us all to Online Safety 3.0

Filed Under: Social Media, social networking Tagged With: ConnectSafely, helpline, moderators, multiplayer online games, myYearbook, Online Safety 3.0, reachout.com, social networking, suicide prevention, virtual worlds

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IMPORTANT RESOURCES

Our (DIGITAL) PARENTING BASICS: Safety + Social
NAMLE, the National Association for Media Literacy Education
CASEL.org & the 5 core social-emotional competencies of SEL
Center for Democracy & Technology
Center for Innovative Public Health Research
Childnet International
Committee for Children
Congressional Internet Caucus Academy
ConnectSafely.org
Control Shift: a pivotal book for Internet safety
Crimes Against Children Research Center
Crisis Textline
Cyber Civil Rights Initiative's Revenge Porn Crisis Line
Cyberwise.org
danah boyd's blog and book about networked youth
Disconnected, Carrie James's book on digital ethics
FOSI.org's Good Digital Parenting
The research of Global Kids Online
The Good Project at Harvard's School of Education
If you watch nothing else: "Parenting in a Digital Age" TED Talk by Prof. Sonia Livingstone
The International Bullying Prevention Association
Let Grow Foundation
Making Caring Common
Raising Digital Natives, author Devorah Heitner's site
Renee Hobbs at the Media Education Lab
MediaSmarts.ca
The New Media Literacies
Report of the Aspen Task Force on Learning & the Internet and our guide to Creating Trusted Learning Environments
The Ruler Approach to social-emotional learning (Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence)
Sources of Strength
"Young & Online: Perspectives on life in a digital age" from young people in 26 countries (via UNICEF)
"Youth Safety on a Living Internet": 2010 report of the Online Safety & Technology Working Group (and my post about it)

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