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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

Pepe the Frog, GameStop & the gamification of reality

February 4, 2021 By Anne 1 Comment

You probably heard about GameStop, the WallStreetBets subreddit, Robinhood app and what’s been called the biggest “short squeeze” in 25 years –  all of which was last week boiled down to the phrase “meme stock mania.” You also may’ve heard of Pepe the Frog, a cartoon character created for a comic book in 2005 that somehow, in a weird, circuitous, Internet way, became a meme for the alt-right, … [Read more...] about Pepe the Frog, GameStop & the gamification of reality

Filed Under: Law & Policy, Parenting, Risk & Safety, Social Media, Youth Tagged With: Alison Gopnik, alt-right, Arthur Jones, GameStop, gamification, Giorgio Angelini, hedge funds, John Herrman, Kevin Roose, Martin Gurri, Matt Furie, meme, meme stock mania, memes, Nathan Fisk, Pepe the Frog, Rich Roll, Robinhood, Sean Illing, short squeeze, Silicon Valley, Trump, Vox, Wall Street, WallStreetBets

Finally! Solid cyberbullying data on tweens

October 15, 2020 By Anne 4 Comments

There is no better source on cyberbullying than the Cyberbullying Research Center, at least in the US. And this month, National Bullying Prevention Month in the US, CRC, in partnership with Cartoon Network, released data on a whole new group of kids: 9-to-12-year-olds. It may surprise you that we know very little about tweens’ experiences with cyberbullying. But that’s because of COPPA, the … [Read more...] about Finally! Solid cyberbullying data on tweens

Filed Under: cyberbullying, Parenting, Research, Risk & Safety, Youth Tagged With: bullying, Cartoon Network, CCRC, Committee for Children, CRC, Cultures of Dignity, cyberbullying, Cyberbullying Research Center, Dorothy Espelage, Ian Rivers, Justin Patchin, National Bullying Prevention Month, Parenting, Patricia Agatston, Rosalind Wiseman, Sameer Hinduja, Vicky Rideout

A simple exercise for (digital) parenting

August 15, 2020 By Anne 2 Comments

This is inspired by all the families in Parenting for a Digital Future, the book I reviewed earlier this week (I also added this as a sidebar in that post for readers' convenience). It's a little exercise to explain and expand on the statement I led the review with: “family context eclipses screen time.” Please customize to make it meaningful to your family. Instead of watching the clock to … [Read more...] about A simple exercise for (digital) parenting

Filed Under: Parenting, Research, Risk & Safety, Youth Tagged With: Alicia Blum-Ross, Parenting for a Digital Future, Sonia Livingstone

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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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