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New game to help middle schoolers be media literacy masters

September 21, 2021 By Anne 1 Comment

It’s definitely not your typical American high school – not the one in “Agents of Influence.” But high school is the backdrop, which is smart for a media literacy videogame aimed at middle schoolers, right? Especially a sketchy, slightly dystopian fictional one like “Virginia Hall High,” in which the game is set. First, the school occupies what used to be the HQ of “the Omni-Directional … [Read more...] about New game to help middle schoolers be media literacy masters

Filed Under: education technology, Literacy & Citizenship, videogames, Youth Tagged With: Agents of Influence, Alterea, Anahita Dalmia, Kickstarter, media literacy, NAMLE, videogame

Student voice for meaning, self-actualization, safety (ISTE 2017)

July 2, 2017 By Anne Leave a Comment

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"Our kids can be experts in the world," said visionary educator Chris Lehmann (@chrislehmann), meaning right now, as students, in school, in digital spaces, in life. Then he asked, "How can we help them be that?" He was speaking last week at ISTE, the world's largest ed tech conference. I went to ISTE to see what educators were saying about student voice, and what I found was a trend: growing … [Read more...] about Student voice for meaning, self-actualization, safety (ISTE 2017)

Filed Under: education technology, School & Tech, Social Media, students, Youth Tagged With: AIS-R, Anne Lamott, Chris Lehmann, Diana Bidulescu, Erin Kohl, Houston ISD, ISTE 2017, Jancey Clark, Jennie Magiera, Michael Hernandez, Mira Costa High School

Leadership in bullying prevention and so much more

August 17, 2014 By Anne Leave a Comment

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We need to prevent and solve bullying. No question. But we also need to encourage and empower our children with the knowledge that most kids don't bully, that bullying is not normative – that, in fact, kindness is. As Dr. Marc Brackett at Yale University's Center for Emotional Intelligence said Friday at the federal government's Bullying Prevention Summit in Washington, "Children are wired for … [Read more...] about Leadership in bullying prevention and so much more

Filed Under: bullying, cyberbullying, education technology, Literacy & Citizenship, Research, Risk & Safety, School & Tech, school policy, Social Media Tagged With: Aspen Task Force, bullying summit, CASEL, digital literacy, educators, Federal Partners in Bullying Prevention, Leadership Day, Marc Brackett, media literacy, school administrators, Scott McLeod, social-emotional learning, the literacies of the digital age

Breadth of videogames’ benefits to kids may surprise

July 11, 2014 By Anne Leave a Comment

Young gamers

It being summertime here in the global North, there may be a little extra videogame play going on in households with kids. So it may be helpful for parents to know about a mother lode of the latest wisdom on videogames' effects on kids' learning, social development and futures. It's MindShift's "Guide to Games & Learning," and here are a few nuggets: Gaming fuels motivation "We want our … [Read more...] about Breadth of videogames’ benefits to kids may surprise

Filed Under: education technology, gaming, Parenting, play, Research, School & Tech, Social Media, videogames, Youth Tagged With: Carol Dweck, gamers, gaming, incremental intelligence, James Paul Gee, Jordan Shapiro, learning, MindShift, videogames

For digital summer camp, kid-source a game (or play this one!)

June 3, 2014 By Anne Leave a Comment

Escape to Morrow game logo

One year ago this month, its 3rd-through-6th grader designers launched the fifth and final iteration of Escape to Morrow, an open source digital game they designed in Minecraft for Minecraft players. The five iterations – including writing and rewriting backstories, creating maps, finding mods (Minecraft modifications out on the Web) and producing the trailer – took a year of work in summer camp, … [Read more...] about For digital summer camp, kid-source a game (or play this one!)

Filed Under: education technology, gaming, kids, Literacy & Citizenship, Parenting, play, School & Tech, tweens, videogames, Youth Tagged With: digital citizenship, digital games, education technology, Escape to Morrow, game design, Marianne Malmstrom, MineCraft, Yvonne Harrison

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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
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Committee for Children
Congressional Internet Caucus Academy
ConnectSafely.org
Control Shift: a pivotal book for Internet safety
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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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