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Then there’s the flip side of ChatGPT

February 27, 2023 By Anne 1 Comment

Consider this Part 2 of 3. Earlier this month I wrote about the earliest takes on ChatGPT,  zooming in on how it could be really good for media literacy education. Now we know more. So below another dimension of this new technology with a cautionary note.... Ok, the dark side. I don't usually go "there," because, well, our brains typically do, by default, whenever a new technology emerges, and … [Read more...] about Then there’s the flip side of ChatGPT

Filed Under: childrens rights, empathy, Parenting, predators, Research, Risk & Safety, search, Youth Tagged With: Aarian Marshall, AI, bing, Blake Lemoine, ChatGPT, Ezra Klein, generative AI, Google, Kevin Roose, LaMDA, OpenAI, Safety by Design, Steven Levy, Sydney

Social media more like medieval than mass media: Example

July 18, 2013 By Anne Leave a Comment

In a way, social media's circling us back to medieval times, when media "products" were never really finished – they were crowd-sourced, adaptive, and usually shared by their developers (minstrels and storytellers) in public spaces, from castles to villages. The makeup and mood of the crowd had a lot of impact on the content of the story and how it would unfold. Social media products are just … [Read more...] about Social media more like medieval than mass media: Example

Filed Under: search, Social Media Tagged With: Facebook, Graph search, Social Media

A parent’s-eye-view of Facebook’s new ‘Graph Search’

January 15, 2013 By Anne 4 Comments

Facebook unveiled its new, updated search tool today, TechCrunch and a massive number of other news outlets reported. Its name "Graph" is from CEO Mark Zuckerberg's term "social graph," which means it's Facebook's version of social-network search – search personalized by algorithms to users' own social circles. Yes, it competes with Google's personalized search results that appear on the top of … [Read more...] about A parent’s-eye-view of Facebook’s new ‘Graph Search’

Filed Under: geolocation, mobile, search, Social Media, social networking Tagged With: Facebook, Graph search, search, Social Media, social networking, social search

Google’s new social search results: Media literacy opp

January 14, 2012 By Anne Leave a Comment

Google just added to its regular search results the posts, photos, etc. of your social circles, as they appear in Google+ (if you use it), YouTube, and other Google social products*. It's called "Search, plus Your World." Even though you and your kids can opt out entirely to get your Google searches back to the general results you've always gotten, the move has created a fairly predictable fracas. … [Read more...] about Google’s new social search results: Media literacy opp

Filed Under: search, Social Media Tagged With: Google, personal search results, search engine, social search results, Web search

Holiday shopping sampler

December 6, 2011 By Anne Leave a Comment

A little info from the material side of this season…. USATODAY's gift guide pulls together a collection of articles about everything from what gadgets you don't want to bother with to Top 10 videogame picks for kids to apps to give or help yourself shop more efficiently. There are plenty of reviews of tempting digital devices. And speaking of those, the iPhone was the most-searched term at Yahoo … [Read more...] about Holiday shopping sampler

Filed Under: search, Social Media Tagged With: Common Sense Media, gift guide, holidays, mindfulness, shopping

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ConnectSafely.org
Control Shift: a pivotal book for Internet safety
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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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