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Literacy & Citizenship

About ‘Momo’ & dealing with viral media scares

August 27, 2018 By Anne 15 Comments

Momo sculpture

There's no rhyme or reason to these things. They show up on different social media platforms, start in different parts of the world, but don’t always "go viral" in regions where they started. There are cultural aspects to what makes them take off but also universal ones: They "excite children's and teens’ imaginations, increase careless media outlets' appetite and opportunities for bigger … [Read more...] about About ‘Momo’ & dealing with viral media scares

Filed Under: apps, Literacy & Citizenship, Parenting, Social Media, Youth Tagged With: "Blue Whale", Deleted, Georgi Apostolov, Michelle Lipkin, Momo, NAMLE, Poynter, WhatsApp

Signs of serious progress for digital citizenship

July 4, 2018 By Anne 1 Comment

Audience at ISTE 2018

THIS JUST IN: In a historic development for the Internet and its users under 18, the Council of Europe today adopted a Recommendation – a comprehensive set of guidelines to European Union member states – for upholding children's rights in digital environments, their rights as digital citizens. "How to better protect and empower children as rights-holders... is at the core of the new … [Read more...] about Signs of serious progress for digital citizenship

Filed Under: Literacy & Citizenship, Research Tagged With: Brian O'Neill, Bronwyn Stuckey, Carrie James, CCRC, Eva Lievens, ISTE, John Carr, Kristen Mattson, Lisa Jones, Project Zero, Richard Culatta, Sharon McLaughlin, Sonia Livingstone, Valerie Verdoodt

Media literacy may take a village now

June 22, 2018 By Anne Leave a Comment

IREX logo

Last week's post featured a U.S. celebrity's very personal media literacy learning and teaching. This week a program successfully tested in Ukraine that represents an equally informal much more collaborative approach to growing media literacy in our very social media environment.... Maybe it's just a theory or it could be I'm stating the obvious, but media literacy education needs to be as … [Read more...] about Media literacy may take a village now

Filed Under: Literacy & Citizenship, Research Tagged With: Aleksandr Dardeli, First Amendment Coalition, IREX, Lisa Guernsey, media literacy, New America, Renee Hobbs

Media literacy lessons from comedian ChescaLeigh

June 11, 2018 By Anne 2 Comments

Cover of Ramsey book

Franchesca Ramsey, or @chescaleigh – the comedy writer, YouTube star with 247,000+ subscribers, host of MTV Decoded, and author of the just-released Well, That Escalated Quickly: Memoirs and Mistakes of an Accidental Activist – could also easily be considered a media literacy educator now. For one thing, she has a lot of credibility with fellow avid users and creators of social media. For another, … [Read more...] about Media literacy lessons from comedian ChescaLeigh

Filed Under: Literacy & Citizenship, Parenting, Social Media Tagged With: "Resilience Builder Program", chescaleigh, Franchesca Ramsey, Marie Forleo, marieTV, Mary Alvord, media literacy, social literacy, social-emotional learning

5 young activists in 4 countries, Part 2: The social media crucible

March 15, 2018 By Anne 3 Comments

The US students who walked out of schools nationwide in protest against gun violence yesterday have counterparts in many other countries. On March 24, young activists all over the world will be staging events in support of the March for Our Lives movement started in Parkland, Fla., and there are other causes and kinds of social change their peers have taken up, social media playing a prominent … [Read more...] about 5 young activists in 4 countries, Part 2: The social media crucible

Filed Under: Literacy & Citizenship, Social Media, students, Youth Tagged With: #marchforourlives, Affinity magazine, Amika George, Camryn Garett, Evelyn Atieno, Facebook, Global Safety Summit, Harnidh Kaur, March for Our Lives, Marjory Stoneman Douglas, Parkland, Tábata C Amaral de Pontes, walkouts

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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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