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Heard of Twitch? Amazon has!

August 26, 2014 By Anne Leave a Comment

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If you have gamers at your house, you probably have heard of Twitch – especially if they like to either play, or watch other gamers play, while the play's being streamed live on the Web and everybody tuned in is chatting about it. Some people call it YouTube for gamers. In fact, Google, YouTube's owner, was rumored to be acquiring it last spring. But it has just been confirmed that Amazon is – to … [Read more...] about Heard of Twitch? Amazon has!

Filed Under: gaming, Social Media, videogames Tagged With: Amazon, gamers, gaming, gaming community, livestreaming, play, Twitch, videogames, YouTube

Dealing with the nasties online

August 25, 2014 By Anne Leave a Comment

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Pondering positive ways to deal with online negativity seems to be a trend – maybe even a blooming social norm! Because, in response to social cruelty like the recent tragic trolling of Robin Williams's daughter Zelda Williams, other people sympathized, defended her and started thinking of ways to counteract cruelty like that. Negativity grabs our attention more than positivity, New York Times … [Read more...] about Dealing with the nasties online

Filed Under: bullying, Risk & Safety, Social Media Tagged With: harassment, negativity, Nicole Sullivan, positivity, psychology, social cruelty, social norms, trolling

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

Kindness really could be going viral! Just look…

August 14, 2014 By Anne 1 Comment

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The use of kindness as a conscious, very effective grassroots solution to bullying is picking up steam. Where youth are concerned, sometimes the kindness is purely their idea, such as the kind intervention of two high school upperclassmen that sparked Canada's Pink Shirt Day and students' anti-bullying countermeasures in Iowa in 2012. Other times the impetus comes from teachers and school … [Read more...] about Kindness really could be going viral! Just look…

Filed Under: bullying, cyberbullying, empathy, Ethics & Etiquette, Literacy & Citizenship, Risk & Safety, School & Tech, school policy, Social Media, students, Youth Tagged With: Adam Sherman, bullying, cyberbullying, empathy, Joshua Starr, Kim Karr, kindness, Matt Soeth, OneGoodThing, Sameer Hinduja

More clarity on teens’ ‘Am I pretty?’ videos

August 11, 2014 By Anne Leave a Comment

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The thoughtful New York Times story begins with a 13-year-old New Jersey girl posting her "Am I pretty?" video on YouTube. I won't steal its thunder, so I hope you'll read it. But I do want to highlight the points most helpful to parents of young teen girls: Ages 13-15: "Nearly all the people in these videos" are in that age range. Developmentally normal: The videos' sources are in that age … [Read more...] about More clarity on teens’ ‘Am I pretty?’ videos

Filed Under: adolescent development, child development, Parenting, Social Media, teens, video, Youth Tagged With: Am I pretty?, teens, YouTube

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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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