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Media literacy and an invasion: The view from Estonia

March 2, 2022 By Anne 1 Comment

As I write this today, less than a week into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, I’m wearing three hats: those of a digital safety specialist, a proud board member of the US’s National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE) and a digital nomad who loves Estonia, where I’m based this year. The third hat first, with a little geographical and cultural context. The start of the invasion was … [Read more...] about Media literacy and an invasion: The view from Estonia

Filed Under: Internet safety education, Literacy & Citizenship, Parenting, Risk & Safety, Youth Tagged With: Convene the Council, Council on Foreign Relations, Estonia, iCivics, Kersti Kaljulaid, Margus Gering, NAMLE, refugees, Russia, Sandra Day O'Connor, Tallinn, Ukraine, Ukrainians

‘Playful by Design,’ a landmark report

December 13, 2021 By Anne 1 Comment

Research in the report

What better subject to zoom in on during the holiday season than play? I've written a lot on the subject, here, through the years but, in a way, this is Part 4 of a series I started in 2009 (here are the 2nd and 3rd parts). So now, at the turn of a new year, it’s not only a perfect time but high time to come back to the power of play. Happy holidays to all who celebrate them, happiness to those … [Read more...] about ‘Playful by Design,’ a landmark report

Filed Under: childrens rights, Parenting, play, Research, Risk & Safety, Youth Tagged With: Connected Camps, Digital Futures Commission, Fortnite, gaming, Kruakae Pothong, Marianne Malmstrom, MineCraft, Nintendo, RingFit, Roblox, Scott Nicholson, Sonia Livingstone, Stuart Brown, TikTok, videogames, WhatsApp, Wii, YouTube, Zoom

Apple & the child online safety challenge

August 26, 2021 By Anne 3 Comments

2nd important update Sept. 19: As if in direct response to the open letter from privacy activists around the world, the WeProtect Global Alliance published their own statement saying Apple must not pause its expanded protections, the Guardian reported. I stand by my thoughts in the update just below. We need privacy activists and protection activists in the same room answering the questions: Would … [Read more...] about Apple & the child online safety challenge

Filed Under: childrens rights, Law & Policy, Parenting, Risk & Safety, sexual exploitation Tagged With: Alex Hern, Apple, Ben Thompson, Casey Newton, CDA, CDT, Center for Democracy and Technology, Children's Code, Convention on the Rights of the Child, COPA, digital rights, eSafety Commissioner, Facebook, Gillian Hadfield, Google, John Carr, Julie Cordua, Microsoft, NCMEC, Project Protect, Tech Coalition, Technology Coalition, Thorn, UNCRC

How our kids can become ‘indistractable’

June 17, 2021 By Anne Leave a Comment

I was almost too distracted over the past couple of days to write this review of Indistractable. But there’s some real “digital parenting” wisdom in it, so here we are, blog post done. For example, co-author Nir Eyal says, “Teach traction.” The opposite of distraction isn’t focus, as we typically think. It’s traction, which “comes from the Latin trahere, meaning ‘to draw or pull',” Eyal writes. … [Read more...] about How our kids can become ‘indistractable’

Filed Under: adolescent development, child development, Parenting, Risk & Safety, Social Media, Youth Tagged With: distraction, Indistractable, Nir Eyal, SEL, Shane Parrish, tech addiction

Finally! A YouTube (flexibly) designed for kids 9-12

February 24, 2021 By Anne Leave a Comment

Tweens are no longer little kids, but they’re also not yet teens. Like all their peers, younger and older, 9-to-12-year-olds love to explore and mess around with media, especially video. They want to be safe so they don’t have to worry, which means they really don’t mind a little help from parental types, but they also don’t want to be contained in an app for “little kids.” YouTube Kids, which … [Read more...] about Finally! A YouTube (flexibly) designed for kids 9-12

Filed Under: Parenting, Risk & Safety, tweens, video Tagged With: Google, parental controls, YouTube, YouTube Kids

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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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