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Could platforms design for 2nd chances?: Insight from key study

May 28, 2021 By Anne 2 Comments

No stage of life is easy, but being a teen is hard in a very particular way. “Adolescence is a period of rapid cognitive, social and emotional development,” said researcher Amanda Lenhart, Health & Data lead at the Data & Society Research Institute in New York, at a conference this week, for example. “They’re a protected legal category. They don’t have the same power or ability to make … [Read more...] about Could platforms design for 2nd chances?: Insight from key study

Filed Under: Research, Social Media, Youth Tagged With: Amanda Lenhart, Candice Odgers, Data & Society, Joan Ganz Cooney Center, Kellie Owens, TTC Labs

Young artists & activists wrapping 2020 in light

December 28, 2020 By Anne 12 Comments

So many of us lost heart, our voices, our strength at different points in the past year, and possibly none more than young people. “Since the start of the pandemic, mental health-related emergency department visits increased by 31% for 12-17-year-olds,” Mental Health America cites data from the Centers for Disease Control as showing. And according to YPulse, 64% of Gen Z-ers themselves say their … [Read more...] about Young artists & activists wrapping 2020 in light

Filed Under: childrens rights, music, teens, Youth Tagged With: #homeschoolmusicalhbomax, #sunshinesongs, Alexandria Villasenor, Amanda Lenhart, Class of 2020, Darren Lachtman, David Attenborough, FOSI, Gen Z, Greta Thunberg, Homeschool Musical, Jerome Foster, Johbn Lewis, Julia Morgan-Canales, Laura Benanti, Mental Health America, Millennials, Reggie McCrimmon

The generation-destroying smartphone: Researchers push back

August 12, 2017 By Anne 29 Comments

Teen crowd shot

Two years ago, the headline in the Washington Post about researcher Jean Twenge's work was, "Happiness levels are rising for teens, but not for people older than 30," and she was quoted as saying, "our current culture is giving teens what they need, but not mature adults what they need." I'm confused – because the headline in the latest Atlantic Monthly about Dr. Twenge's work suggests the … [Read more...] about The generation-destroying smartphone: Researchers push back

Filed Under: Research, Risk & Safety, Youth Tagged With: Alexandra Samuel, Amanda Lenhart, CCRC, Christopher Ferguson, Crimes Against Children Research Center, David Finkelhor, Emily Weinstein, Howard Gardner, juvenoia, Katie Davis, Sarah Rose Cavanagh, Sonia Livingstone, Vicky Rideout

Neutralize the ‘negativity bias’ against kids’ Net use

October 29, 2013 By Anne 5 Comments

This post is not about technology. It's about how we (humankind) have been wiring our brains to think about technology. We have quite a hole to climb out of. Not only are our brains already "wired to scout for the bad stuff," the Huffington Post reports, referring to what neuropsychologist and author Rick Hanson calls our "negativity bias." We've been reinforcing that bias with at least 15 years … [Read more...] about Neutralize the ‘negativity bias’ against kids’ Net use

Filed Under: education technology, Parenting, Research, School & Tech Tagged With: Amanda Lenhart, education, EU Kids Online, internet research, Parenting, Pew Internet Project, Rick Hanson, Sonia Livingstone

Most US teen Net users seek out privacy advice: Study

August 15, 2013 By Anne Leave a Comment

Pew chart of teen privacy practices on FB

Privacy in social media is important to US teens (and undoubtedly all teens). We knew this but just got further confirmation today from the Pew Internet Project's new study, "Where Teens Seek Online Privacy Advice." "The majority of teens set their profile to either fully or partially private," the authors report, and it they can't figure out how to manage their settings themselves, they get … [Read more...] about Most US teen Net users seek out privacy advice: Study

Filed Under: Literacy & Citizenship, Privacy, Research Tagged With: Amanda Lenhart, online privacy, Pew Internet Project, social media research, teens

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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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