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True school safety: A ‘compassion network’ in & around schools in Morgan County, W.V.

February 18, 2016 By Anne Leave a Comment

It's Kindness Week, and there's no greater kindness – for and from people of all ages – than what's being demonstrated in Morgan County, W.V., where great need is being met with great cooperation. County residents have created a web of youth-focused programs supporting kids in and out of school. I've been hearing about the growth of this amazing web of care since I met Gary McDaniel, a clinical … [Read more...] about True school safety: A ‘compassion network’ in & around schools in Morgan County, W.V.

Filed Under: bullying, cyberbullying, empathy, Risk & Safety, School & Tech, school policy, Youth Tagged With: Gary McDaniel, school safety, school social workers

Counterspeech: New online safety tool with huge potential

December 9, 2015 By Anne Leave a Comment

Susan Benesch, founder of The Dangerous Speech project, tells the story of how worried people in Kenya were in the run-up to their national election in 2013. Dangerous, inflammatory speech around the previous election in 2007 had led to widespread violence involving more than 1,000 deaths and hundreds of thousands of people being displaced, she said in a talk at Harvard’s Berkman Center, where she … [Read more...] about Counterspeech: New online safety tool with huge potential

Filed Under: cyberbullying, Ethics & Etiquette, international online safety, Literacy & Citizenship, school policy, Social Media, social norms Tagged With: agency, Dangerous Speech Project, Internet safety, rights, school, social norms, Susan Benesch

Finally defining digital citizenship: Help from top researchers

November 30, 2015 By Anne 2 Comments

If it's to have any real impact, “digital citizenship” needs to be clearly and simply defined. That’s what the US’s leading youth online risk researchers propose in the latest study on digital citizenship. In fact, the University of New Hampshire researchers made three recommendations: Separate it from digital literacy (Internet and technical skills) and cyberbullying prevention, which are … [Read more...] about Finally defining digital citizenship: Help from top researchers

Filed Under: childrens rights, Literacy & Citizenship, participatory culture, Research, School & Tech, school policy, Youth Tagged With: CCRC, digital citizenship, Kimberly Mitchell, Lisa Jones, University of New Hampshire

iCanHelpline launched!

August 17, 2015 By Anne Leave a Comment

I'm thrilled to tell you that, after a successful crowdfunding campaign and with support from a number of social media companies and the Digital Trust Foundation, iCanHelpline.org, launched today. A joint project of Net Family News and #iCANHELP, it's the California pilot for a national social media "helpdesk" for schools. Though there are Internet helplines in many countries, none are just for … [Read more...] about iCanHelpline launched!

Filed Under: Risk & Safety, School & Tech, school policy Tagged With: Crash Override Network, cyberbullying, districts, Heartmob, icanhelp, iCanHelpline, Internet safety, POSH, revenge porn hotline, schools, sexting, Social Media Helpline

Takeaways from premier US anti-bullying conference

November 23, 2014 By Anne 2 Comments

This Thanksgiving week in the US, I'm thankful to have heard the following from two outstanding researchers and a well-known author in the bullying prevention field speaking at the just-ended International Bullying Prevention Association's (IBPA's) annual conference in San Diego: "We don't talk enough about the ecosystem around kids," said educational psychology professor Dorothy Espelage at … [Read more...] about Takeaways from premier US anti-bullying conference

Filed Under: adolescent development, bullying, child development, cyberbullying, Risk & Safety, School & Tech, school policy, Youth Tagged With: bullying, cyberbullying, Dorothy Espelage, IBPA, Rosalind Wiseman, school climate, SEL, Stan Davis

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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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