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Supporting the youngest witnesses of this humanitarian crisis

October 13, 2023 By Anne 1 Comment

UN photo of kids in Gaza eating bread provided by World Food Program

Sometimes we parents feel so helpless when our children come to us hurting as much as us when they see something awful happening in the world. In her email letter to our community, my friend, colleague and fellow parent Michelle Lipkin wrote, when her 19-year-old daughter asked her to explain what's going on, "I tried my best, but I know my response was inadequate. At times like these, I always … [Read more...] about Supporting the youngest witnesses of this humanitarian crisis

Filed Under: Literacy & Citizenship, Parenting, Risk & Safety, Social Media, Youth Tagged With: Gaza, humanitarian crisis, Israel, Israelis, media literacy, mental health, Michelle Lipkin, NAMLE, Palestinians, Richard Graham, Sonia Livingstone, UN Relief and Works Agency, UNICEF

Surgeon general’s advisory: Let’s take stock

June 16, 2023 By Anne 7 Comments

US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy advises that "we are experiencing a youth mental health crisis." Based on the data, there's no question about that. Where there is a question is whether tech and media are the cause. Some scholars simply assert they are (see the sidebar below), but neither the surgeon general nor the American Psychological Association asserts that, and the APA just wrote in its … [Read more...] about Surgeon general’s advisory: Let’s take stock

Filed Under: adolescent development, Law & Policy, Parenting, Research, Risk & Safety, Social Media, Youth Tagged With: CDC, David French, EU Kids Online, Ezra Klein, Frances Haugen, Ine Beyens, Jean Twenge, Jonathan Haidt, Judson Brewer, Kaitlyn Tiffany, Lisa Damour, Patti Valkenburg, Project AWeSome, Sonia Livingstone, Vivek Murthy

A solution for ‘awful but lawful’

March 9, 2023 By Anne Leave a Comment

The youth market researchers at Ypulse just reported that 83% of millennial parents agreed with their survey statement that "social media platforms should do more to police and prevent cyberbullying." Their concerns are certainly justified, because cyberbullying is "awful but lawful" – not generally a kind of online harm that law enforcement can address. But is it worse than the offline version … [Read more...] about A solution for ‘awful but lawful’

Filed Under: cyberbullying, Law & Policy, Parenting, Research, Risk & Safety, sexual exploitation, Social Media, Youth Tagged With: CCRC, Crimes Against Children Research Center, cyberbullying, Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism, harassment, helplines, hotlines, INHOPE, Insafe, Internet Watch Foundation, Netsafe, peer victimization, stopncii, Tech Coalition, WeProtect, YPulse

Then there’s the flip side of ChatGPT

February 27, 2023 By Anne 4 Comments

Consider this Part 2. Earlier this month I wrote about the earliest takes on ChatGPT,  zooming in on how it could be really good for media literacy education. Now we know more. So below another dimension of this new technology with a cautionary note.... Ok, the dark side. I don't usually go "there," because, well, our brains typically do, by default, whenever a new technology emerges, and there … [Read more...] about Then there’s the flip side of ChatGPT

Filed Under: childrens rights, empathy, Parenting, predators, Research, Risk & Safety, search, Youth Tagged With: Aarian Marshall, AI, bing, Blake Lemoine, ChatGPT, Ezra Klein, generative AI, Google, Kevin Roose, LaMDA, OpenAI, Safety by Design, Steven Levy, Sydney

Why partner with teens on tech: Great new book

September 12, 2022 By Anne 3 Comments

At this transitional moment for digital tech and youth online safety, the new book Behind Their Screens: What Teens Are Facing (and Adult Are Missing) feels almost miraculous to me. The first reason why is that it’s more about teens than screens. Since the beginning of public concern about youth online safety in the late 1990s, we have been almost obsessively focused on the technology, not so … [Read more...] about Why partner with teens on tech: Great new book

Filed Under: Parenting, Research, Risk & Safety, Social Media, Youth Tagged With: agency, Behind Their Screens, Carrie James, control paradigm, digital wellbeing, Emily Weinstein, Harvard Graduate School of Education, online safety

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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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