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Uncontroversial: Online porn in sex ed

July 31, 2019 By Anne 1 Comment

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The other day, prominent UK professor Sonia Livingstone tweeted that the latest post in the Parenting for a Digital Future blog (which she helped create) has proven controversial. That’s not a huge surprise. The post argues that not including online porn in high school sex education classes “is a missed opportunity.” I agree. The post’s writer, Claire Meehan, a lecturer in criminology at … [Read more...] about Uncontroversial: Online porn in sex ed

Filed Under: Parenting, Research Tagged With: Claire Meehan, healthy relationships, Parenting for a Digital Future, sex education, sexual health, Sonia Livingstone

Higher & deeper views of kids online

June 23, 2019 By Anne 2 Comments

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A metaphor used by Global Kids Online researchers in a new blog post reminds me of research in the US that represented a huge digital youth milestone for me almost a decade ago – then of brand-new insights. The metaphor is that of a ladder – a progression of online activities kids and teens engage in, starting with the most “attractive and accessible” ones, like watching video or hanging out … [Read more...] about Higher & deeper views of kids online

Filed Under: Parenting, Research, Youth Tagged With: Affinity Online, Amanda Wortman, Crystle Martin, Daniel Kardefelt-Winther, Digital Youth Project, EU Kids Online, Global Kids Online, Katie Salen, Matthew H. Rafalow, Mimi Ito, Rachel Cody Pfister, Sonia Livingstone

The TikTok sensation

March 15, 2019 By Anne Leave a Comment

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This is not a review of TikTok. You can find many reviews, both credible and not so much, with a quick Web search. This post offers a bit of context on the app, its parent company and where social media's headed – for bigger-picture parenting. (BTW, if your child is a big fan of TikTok, a great family media literacy lesson would be to pick 3 random reviews or articles and, with open minds and … [Read more...] about The TikTok sensation

Filed Under: Parenting, Risk & Safety, Social Media, Youth Tagged With: Bytedance, lipsync, TikTok

Tweens are smart about smartphones: Study

November 20, 2018 By Anne 1 Comment

Everything about this study is smart — the 10-14 year-old respondents (average age 11), what the authors are modeling for pediatricians and parents, and the tweens' answers. For example, when asked what age kids should be given mobile phones, one answer was: "It's not an age. I think it's more of a maturity thing," said one young respondent. Another's answer was, "Probably when they know … [Read more...] about Tweens are smart about smartphones: Study

Filed Under: mobile, Parenting, Research, Social Media, Youth Tagged With: Megan Moreno, preteens, SMAHRT, smartphones, tweens, University of Wisconsin

About ‘Momo’ & dealing with viral media scares

August 27, 2018 By Anne 14 Comments

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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

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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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