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Digital citizenship reality check: Notes from Nairobi’s IGF

September 29, 2011 By Anne 5 Comments

Asked how they'd rank "digital citizenship" on a scale of 1 to 10 – with 10 representing "very relevant and meaningful" – a youth panel from Egypt, the US, and UK ranging in age from 15 to 22 gave it a 1, two 3's, a 5, a 6, and an 8. This was in a workshop yesterday involving young people and adults representing the Internet industry, governments, and nonprofit youth organizations from Egypt, New … [Read more...] about Digital citizenship reality check: Notes from Nairobi’s IGF

Filed Under: Literacy & Citizenship Tagged With: Childnet, ConnectSafely, digital citizenship, IGF, Internet Governance Forum, Netsafe

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

Why digital citizenship’s a hot topic

September 23, 2010 By Anne 21 Comments

Digital citizenship keeps coming up in more and more places.... It just came up at the Social Good Summit in New York this week I just co-moderated a multinational panel on it at the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Vilnius, Lithuania, last week The European Schoolnet and the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) just announced a new category for Europe's eLearning … [Read more...] about Why digital citizenship’s a hot topic

Filed Under: Literacy & Citizenship, Risk & Safety, Social Media Tagged With: Childnet, ConnectSafely, digital citizenship, digital media, Internet Governance Forum, Internet safety, Netsafe, online safety, Schoolnet, Social Good Summit, Social Media, youth agency

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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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