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‘Automated fame’: 1 of the TikTok stories of the moment

September 10, 2020 By Anne Leave a Comment

You’ve undoubtedly seen news stories about Charli D’Amelio, 2020’s 16-year-old TikTok phenomenon, with 6 billion likes and 82 million followers since she joined the app last spring. It was the part about “automated fame” that really caught my attention in a New Yorker story this past weekend. Charli became “the most popular creator on TikTok” partly just because of who Charli is – a very grounded … [Read more...] about ‘Automated fame’: 1 of the TikTok stories of the moment

Filed Under: apps, Social Media, Youth Tagged With: Charli D'Amelio, influencer, TikTok

A simple exercise for (digital) parenting

August 15, 2020 By Anne 1 Comment

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

#P4DF: The book about (digital) parenting

August 10, 2020 By Anne 5 Comments

Family context eclipses screen time. If you get nothing else from the new book Parenting for a Digital Future, that one takeaway would help so many educators, policymakers, pediatricians and advocates trying to get “Internet safety” and “digital wellbeing” education right, i.e., as free of generalized pronouncements of what is and isn’t good for children as possible. It has a number of … [Read more...] about #P4DF: The book about (digital) parenting

Filed Under: Parenting, Research, Youth Tagged With: Alicia Blum-Ross, Anya Kamenetz, Ian Rivers, Marshall Duke, Nathan Schneider, Sonia Livingstone

Key SEL report from UNESCO, insights from youth in 6 countries

July 27, 2020 By Anne 1 Comment

In what video panel discussion could you watch a high school student in Bhutan lead his peers in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Japan and South Africa, along with their adult moderator, in a mindfulness practice – after which you’d hear from a neuroscientist at a U.S. university and Sri Lanka’s Minister of Education? That would be this video, created by UNESCO Mahatma Gandhi Institute of … [Read more...] about Key SEL report from UNESCO, insights from youth in 6 countries

Filed Under: Research, School & Tech, Youth Tagged With: Anantha K. Duraiappah, CASEL, Center for Healthy Minds, Covid, Covid-19, digital learning, ed tech, emotional intelligence, H.E. Dullas Alahapperuma, MGIEP, Nandini Chatterjee Singh, pandemic, Richard Davidson, screen therapy, SEL, social-emotional learning, UNESCO

Amid #Covid: Gift to her peers from a once depressed teen author

May 25, 2020 By Anne 1 Comment

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I can’t let Mental Health Month go by without a blog post on the subject, especially this year. So this one’s not about tech, media or the Internet. It’s about – and by – 19-year-old Ruby Walker, author of Advice I Ignored: Stories and Wisdom from a Formerly Depressed Teen. It is true wisdom, maybe especially helpful because it’s a gift to her peers (and herself, she writes) from someone who’s … [Read more...] about Amid #Covid: Gift to her peers from a once depressed teen author

Filed Under: Parenting, Risk & Safety, Youth Tagged With: Ruby Walker

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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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