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The benefits of agency, choice, and student-centered learning

January 15, 2014 By Anne 1 Comment

"More and more of society at large, and consequently many students, are demanding an educational system that works for and with them," wrote high school math teacher Paul Bogdan in Edutopia (emphasis mine). "A student-centered learning environment encourages students to become independent learners and ultimately to be in charge of their own education." Student-centered learning just makes sense … [Read more...] about The benefits of agency, choice, and student-centered learning

Filed Under: education technology, kids, School & Tech, students, teens, Youth Tagged With: agency, Aspen Task Force, choice, connected learning, education reform, Joshua Davis, Katie Salen, Montessori, Paul Bogdan, Piaget, school, student-centered learning

Teens & social media: Parents’ other job

August 16, 2013 By Anne 1 Comment

An interesting myth about social media is the one about tension between teen privacy and teen safety. Because of all the scary messaging about the Internet that has been in circulation for almost two decades, many parents seem to believe it's their job to monitor their children's Net use closely. The assumption is that privacy (from parents) jeopardizes their safety. That assumption deserves to … [Read more...] about Teens & social media: Parents’ other job

Filed Under: Literacy & Citizenship, Parenting, Privacy Tagged With: adolescent development, agency, Alice Marwick, Barry Zimmerman, danah boyd, growing up, independence, Parenting, Privacy, self-efficacy, Timothy Cleary

Making Digital Learning Day meaningful

February 6, 2013 By Anne Leave a Comment

"Powered up, self-directed students" using digital tools "to lead their learning" is how Leslie Wilson, CEO of the One to One Institute describes what Digital Learning Day (today, Feb. 6) needs to be about in her commentary "Connected Students and Agency." It's that blend of agency (self-directed participation or action) and connected technology that New York Times columnist Tom Friedman says has … [Read more...] about Making Digital Learning Day meaningful

Filed Under: education technology, Internet safety education, Risk & Safety, School & Tech Tagged With: agency, digital citizenship, Digital Learning Day, ed tech, education technology, Leslie Wilson, online safety

What the Net privacy big picture has to do with parenting

December 21, 2012 By Anne 3 Comments

It's no wonder parents and schools aren't sure where their policies start and stop when it comes to online interaction among young people who could be in any home, any school, any community or even country. Governments – whether local, state, or national – aren't sure either. More than ever, "jurisdiction" and "regulation," whether a family's or a national government's, is no longer either/or, no … [Read more...] about What the Net privacy big picture has to do with parenting

Filed Under: Law & Policy, Literacy & Citizenship, Privacy Tagged With: agency, children, Parenting, policy, Privacy, regulation, regulatory power, user-driven

Digital citizenship the ‘killer app’: How

November 15, 2010 By Anne 10 Comments

Elaborating on my comments last week at the annual Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI) conference in Washington, D.C. (11/10/10).... Digital citizenship is the killer app of online safety – if (big if) we don't complicate it too much. A big if because those of us who did not grow up in the current media environment (the ones who create terms like this and implement programs around them) tend … [Read more...] about Digital citizenship the ‘killer app’: How

Filed Under: Literacy & Citizenship Tagged With: agency, ASI Mexico, Cable in the Classroom, Childnet, citizenship, digital citizenship, efficacy, FOSI, Netsafe, online safety, Pew Internet, youth online

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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
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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