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Digital & social: A teen’s perspective on parenting

December 2, 2014 By Anne Leave a Comment

Guest post by Jason Brand As a therapist who specializes in helping families navigate an increasingly digital culture, Jason Brand, LCSW, hears a lot from teens about what they find helpful and not helpful when it comes to their social lives, digital devices and advice from their parents. I first met Jason when we were interviewed on a radio show together a few years ago and have been a fan … [Read more...] about Digital & social: A teen’s perspective on parenting

Filed Under: Parenting, Youth Tagged With: adolescent development, digital age, Jason Brand, Parenting, Social Media, technology, teen perspective, teen view, therapy

Parenting advice from a non-parent

April 5, 2013 By Anne Leave a Comment

It's fine for people who aren't parents to weigh in on parenting-these-days – aunts, uncles, grandparents, and children do all the time – but why market your article or post as a non-parent? Anyway, columnist Frank Bruni at the New York Times did. I agree with some of what he wrote (that parenting these days is pretty over-thunk), really like some of it (I'll get to that in a minute), and find … [Read more...] about Parenting advice from a non-parent

Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: digital age, digital footprints, Frank Bruni, generations, Parenting, parents, Social Media

The 7 properties of safety in a digital age

March 27, 2012 By Anne 6 Comments

Inside a student's house in Minecraft

In Part 1 of this series, I pointed you to a recent talk by John Seely Brown on the whitewater-kayaking kind of learning we need today and in Part 2, examples of that in Marianne Malmstrom's New Jersey classroom. Both touch on "safety" in and for the learning process. Here, Part 3: zooming in on how they and other wise educators have clarified my view of child safety today. What safety is … [Read more...] about The 7 properties of safety in a digital age

Filed Under: education technology, Literacy & Citizenship, Risk & Safety, Social Media Tagged With: Chip Heath, Dan Heath, digital age, Hanging Out, Internet safety, John Seely Brown, Katie Salen, LEGO, Marianne Malmstrom, Mark Healey, MineCraft, networked world, online safety, Social Media, Stuart Brown

Too focused on fear of multitasking?

February 19, 2012 By Anne Leave a Comment

"A flighty mind may be going somewhere," writes Hanif Kureishi – a playwright, screenwriter, filmmaker, novelist, and short-story writer – in the New York Times. In a very personal account of a "wretched [five-year] period" at the bottom of his class in a suburban-London secondary school, he writes about how some of us really need distraction, and how can we parents really tell (as his couldn't … [Read more...] about Too focused on fear of multitasking?

Filed Under: Risk & Safety Tagged With: art, creativity, digital age, digital media, distraction, Hanif Kureishi, multitasking

Parenting in the digital age: Major insights

November 15, 2011 By Anne Leave a Comment

A lot of insights into digital-age parenting have been surfacing in the research this year – so much good stuff, in fact, that I'm going to crunch it way down into brief snapshots and give you the links so you can find what's relevant to you. 1. Tech parenting Right up front in "Toward Predicting Youth Resistance to Internet Risk Prevention Strategies," Sahara Byrne and Theodore Lee at … [Read more...] about Parenting in the digital age: Major insights

Filed Under: Parenting, Research Tagged With: Amy Bruckman, digital age, drama, Gala Bernstein, Larry Rosen, Parenting, Sahara Byrne, Sarita Yardi, Social Media, technoparenting, Theodore Lee, Zyl Triger

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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
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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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