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Datafied Childhoods the book

April 12, 2022 By Anne 2 Comments

A grabbier headline for this post might be “Screens are watching us back,” but that would be like so many scary news headlines parents are subjected to. More importantly, it wouldn’t do justice to all that this important new book – Datafied Childhoods, by Profs. Giovanna Mascheroni in Italy and Andra Siibak in Estonia – offers us. It provides…. Preparation not only for handling the new tech … [Read more...] about Datafied Childhoods the book

Filed Under: Parenting, Privacy, Research, Risk & Safety, Youth Tagged With: AI, Alex Feerst, Alicia Blum-Ross, Amanda Third, Andra Siibak, AR, Charlotte, data, datafication, decentralized Web, Divine Maloney, Faisal Galaria, Giovanna Mascheroni, Janet Haven, Jill Walker Rettberg, Leslie Haddon, mediatization, metaverse, MR, Nathan Fisk, Neil Selwyn, Privacy, Sonia Livingstone, Tim Lordan, Veronica Barassi, VR, Web3, Willner, XR

A simple exercise for (digital) parenting

August 15, 2020 By Anne 2 Comments

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 11 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

Screens kids use, Part 1: Everywhere and ‘irrelevant’

March 12, 2020 By Anne 5 Comments

Ofcom research

The webinar was set up as a debate, a transatlantic one between psychology Prof. Sonia Livingstone at the London School of Economics and health sciences Assoc. Prof. Kristi Adamo at the University of Ottawa. They were asked to talk about “screen time” by their hosts at the International Society of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity – whether it’s good, bad or both. Dr. Livingstone was … [Read more...] about Screens kids use, Part 1: Everywhere and ‘irrelevant’

Filed Under: Parenting, Research Tagged With: Alicia Blum-Ross, International Society of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, ISBNPA, Kristi Adamo, LSE, Ofcom, P4DF, Parenting for a Digital Future, Sonia Livingstone

Digital youth: Honor ALL their rights

April 10, 2019 By Anne 4 Comments

This is a pivotal year for children’s online safety and human rights. One important reason is the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child’s call for public comments to help it develop the first General Comment on the digital part of fulfilling children’s human rights. Those rights are extensive. There are 54 articles in the Convention on the Rights of the Child, falling into 3 categories labeled … [Read more...] about Digital youth: Honor ALL their rights

Filed Under: childrens rights, Law & Policy, Youth Tagged With: Alicia Blum-Ross, Amanda Third, Committee on the Rights of the Child, Council of Europe, CRC, digital rights, EU Kids Online, General Comment, Henry Jenkins, Jens Qvortrup, screen time, Sonia Livingstone, tech addition, Tijana Milosevic, UNCRC

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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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