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Cartoon Network does anti-bullying *intelligently*

June 4, 2010 By Anne 2 Comments

Cartoon Network, which is more the middle-schoolers' network than any TV network, plans to involve that key demographic in the fight against bullying. In the fall, it teams up with CNN to launch "an ambitious campaign to enlist them as foot soldiers in the fight against bullying," the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. What I think they mean by "ambitious" is really smart: in several ways: … [Read more...] about Cartoon Network does anti-bullying *intelligently*

Filed Under: bullying, cyberbullying, Risk & Safety Tagged With: bullying, Cartoon Network, cyberbullying

Why anti-bullying laws don’t work: School psychologist’s view

May 17, 2010 By Anne 4 Comments

With the passage of Massachusetts's new anti-bullying law, 42 states now have laws against bullying, Education Week reports, citing "the most recent data available from the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration" of the Department of Health and Human Services. But anti-bullying laws don't work, says Izzy Kalman in a blog at Psychology Today. They don't work because they require a … [Read more...] about Why anti-bullying laws don’t work: School psychologist’s view

Filed Under: bullying, cyberbullying, Law & Policy, Risk & Safety, School & Tech, school policy Tagged With: bullying, cyberbullying, Izzy Kalman, school policy, state laws

Formspring: What’s really going on?

May 6, 2010 By Anne 5 Comments

Nobody's completely sure – even social-media researchers who talk to teens a lot – but it is clear that the Formspring phenomenon didn't come out of nowhere. Remember those personality tests and fashion-sense quizzes in teen magazines? In the digital-age versions, danah boyd writes in DMLcentral.net, teens would – through questions and answers in pre-Web public online spaces like Usenet; "chain … [Read more...] about Formspring: What’s really going on?

Filed Under: bullying, cyberbullying, Parenting, Risk & Safety, School & Tech, school policy, Social Media Tagged With: adolescent development, bullying, cyberbullying, danah boyd, Formspring, identity exploration, quizzes, school policy, Truth or Dare

Principal’s anti-Facebook plan: Is banning Web sites the fix?

May 4, 2010 By Anne 2 Comments

It was an interesting pair of education news stories to break in a single week: a principal urging his students' parents to ban their kids' use of Facebook and the Teacher of the Year being honored for teaching with, among other things, Facebook (see this). In an email to parents, Anthony Orsini, principal of Benjamin Franklin Middle School in Ridgeway, NJ, said that "the main problem is that … [Read more...] about Principal’s anti-Facebook plan: Is banning Web sites the fix?

Filed Under: bullying, cyberbullying, Risk & Safety, School & Tech, school policy Tagged With: Anthony Orsini, bullying, cyberbullying, Facebook, Formspring, Ira Socol, social norms, whole-school

MA passed its anti-bullying law

April 30, 2010 By Anne Leave a Comment

The Massachusetts state legislature unanimously yesterday passed a new law "cracking down on bullying," the Boston Globe reports. "The bill gained momentum after the deaths of the 15-year-old [Phoebe] Prince [of South Hadley] and 11-year-old Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover of Springfield, who allegedly committed suicide after being bullied." The bill now goes to Gov. Deval Patrick for signing; a … [Read more...] about MA passed its anti-bullying law

Filed Under: bullying, cyberbullying, Law & Policy, Risk & Safety, School & Tech, school policy, Social Media Tagged With: bullying, cyberbullying, Massachusetts, school policy, state laws

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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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