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MySpace’s nonexistence greatly exaggerated

January 23, 2015 By Admin Leave a Comment

MySpace is alive and well and apparently never lost its core group of users, music fans. More than 50 million people visited what many people think of as the original social network service this past November (the latest monthly figure available), a 575% increase, the Wall Street Journal reports. And they viewed more than 300 million videos in the month of November (the latest monthly figure … [Read more...] about MySpace’s nonexistence greatly exaggerated

Filed Under: music, Social Media, social networking Tagged With: advertising, media literacy, MySpace, social media marketing, Viant

‘State of the Union’ & the student part of student privacy protection

January 22, 2015 By Admin Leave a Comment

There's a lot of confusion in the air about student data privacy, and some widely quoted words about it from President Obama in his address Tuesday night didn't help (but I suspect his speechwriters were just looking for a spot to put a high-priority topic into "a simple, dramatic message about economic fairness," as the New York Times put it: "No foreign nation, no hacker should be able to … [Read more...] about ‘State of the Union’ & the student part of student privacy protection

Filed Under: Law & Policy, Literacy & Citizenship, Parenting, Privacy Tagged With: consumer privacy, cybersecurity, data privacy, digital literacy, Google, Internet safety, legislation, media literacy, online privacy, pledge, President Obama, SEL, social literacy, student privacy, White House

Millennials’ startup: Social change in a social-networking skin

January 19, 2015 By Admin Leave a Comment

How fitting for a social network service for social good to launch on Martin Luther King Day. Created by millennials to have "a positive ripple effect," its name, RIZZARR.com, comes from the Spanish verb "rizar," which means "to ripple or ruffle the surface." "Our goal is to provide a positive, globally connected platform where both inspirational news and content from Millennials are shared" by … [Read more...] about Millennials’ startup: Social change in a social-networking skin

Filed Under: Literacy & Citizenship, Social Media, social networking, Youth Tagged With: Ashley Williams, RIZZARR, social change, social good

Social media literacy in an app

January 16, 2015 By Admin Leave a Comment

Brilliant concept. A source of quick, digestible social media literacy delivered by an app, not parents (one reason why it's so digestible). I'm talking about the ThinkUp app. It's definitely not just for teens, but what a great application for a reputation-curation and media-mindfulness tool. It's so much more powerful than just googling oneself or getting a service like Reputation.com to help … [Read more...] about Social media literacy in an app

Filed Under: apps, Literacy & Citizenship, mobile, Parenting, Social Media Tagged With: Anil Dash, app, Farhad Manjoo, mobile, online reputation, smartphone, Thinkup

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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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