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empathy

A social media company’s social-emotional learning

January 25, 2013 By Anne 3 Comments

FB social reporting flow screenshot

One of the fascinating impacts of our now very social media environment is technology companies having to learn a whole lot about the best and worst of humanity – and, for their own and their users' sake, about how to foster the best of it. Facebook, for example, has an engineering team working with empathy researchers, and this has direct impact on young users' social experiences, wherever FB's … [Read more...] about A social media company’s social-emotional learning

Filed Under: empathy, Literacy & Citizenship, Research, Risk & Safety Tagged With: abuse reports, Arturo Bejar, Mac Brackett, SEL, social literacy, Social Media, social networking, social reporting, social-emotional learning

Empathy training gains ground in schools

March 26, 2010 By Anne Leave a Comment

Used to be, if a student behaved badly s/he was sent to the office. Now, at Public School 114 in the South Bronx, a teacher sits down with students and finds out what's wrong. P.S. 114's principal told the New York Times that the school's had workshops run by David Levine, author of Teaching Empathy, since 2006 and has seen the number of fights drop from 1-3 a week to "fewer than three a month." … [Read more...] about Empathy training gains ground in schools

Filed Under: cyberbullying, empathy, Risk & Safety, School & Tech, school policy Tagged With: David Levine

‘Continuous partial attention…’

April 27, 2009 By Anne Leave a Comment

...leads to "continuous partial empathy"? "Continuous partial attention" is the way some researchers are describing what's happening when people communicate or socialize with social-media tools like Twitter, instant messaging, chat, texting, etc. Fast Company looks at a new report from the Brain and Creativity Institute at USC, which argues that the brain is quick to recognize and empathize when … [Read more...] about ‘Continuous partial attention…’

Filed Under: empathy, Literacy & Citizenship, Risk & Safety, Social Media, social networking

Anti-bullying & -cyberbullying reports, projects

April 21, 2009 By Anne Leave a Comment

So far this year there have been four suicides in the US because of bullying, writes Chicago mental health examiner Jerilyn Dufresne, marking the suicide of 11-year-old bullying victim Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover in The Examiner. His mother is asking her state government, Massachusetts, to investigate the school Carl attended, MassLive.com reports. The family of a 17-year-old bullying and suicide … [Read more...] about Anti-bullying & -cyberbullying reports, projects

Filed Under: bullying, empathy, Risk & Safety, School & Tech, school policy Tagged With: digizen

New, holistic anti-bullying program for schools

April 3, 2009 By Anne Leave a Comment

Parents and educators may be interested in a groundbreaking new approach to anti-bullying instruction. Called "CAPSULE" for "Creating a Peaceful Learning Environment," the program focuses on the entire school community instead of just on aggressive kids and teaches the need to understand rather than react to others, ScienceDaily reports. CAPSULE creates "a climate where feelings [are] labelled and … [Read more...] about New, holistic anti-bullying program for schools

Filed Under: bullying, empathy, Risk & Safety, School & Tech Tagged With: bystander, CAPSULE program

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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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