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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

Post-FOSI: Online safety now, predictions for 2020

November 20, 2017 By Anne 1 Comment

"Trust and civility" were, so very appropriately, the focus of the Family Online Safety Institute's just-ended annual conference this challenging year. "We have witnessed countless examples…of ways that trust in institutions, in organizations and even in each other has been eroded," FOSI CEO Stephen Balkam noted in his opening remarks. "And we have watched how basic civility has been challenged … [Read more...] about Post-FOSI: Online safety now, predictions for 2020

Filed Under: Law & Policy, Literacy & Citizenship, Parenting, Research, Risk & Safety Tagged With: CCRC, David Finkelhor, FOSI, Marc Brackett, Robin Rasking, Stephen Balkam

Do surveys about parents’ concerns increase digital-parenting confidence?

November 16, 2014 By Anne Leave a Comment

Predictably, the media coverage of a new survey of parents on digital-age parenting focused mainly on their concerns about tech and the Net. We need to question that – question the value of repeatedly reporting about concerns if, as a society, we want parents to feel confident in helping their children navigate today's media. Here are some questions we might ask, for example: 1. UK psychologist … [Read more...] about Do surveys about parents’ concerns increase digital-parenting confidence?

Filed Under: child development, kids, Parenting, Research, Risk & Safety, Social Media, teens, Youth Tagged With: FOSI, Hart Associates, online risk research, Parenting, poll, Simon Moore, survey

The next version of ‘Internet safety’: A look under the hood

November 10, 2014 By Anne 2 Comments

"Under the bonnet," colleagues across the Atlantic and Down Under might say. I put it that way because this post is a bit more e-safety geeky than usual. Parents and caregivers who don't geek out on this topic might find this mildly interesting, though, because we're talking about kids' wellbeing in media and in life. Going forward, the value of "Internet safety" – if the concept doesn't … [Read more...] about The next version of ‘Internet safety’: A look under the hood

Filed Under: childrens rights, Internet safety education, Literacy & Citizenship, Online Safety 3.0, Risk & Safety, Youth Tagged With: #FOSI2014, children's rights, digital literacy, e-safety, FOSI, ICMEC, Internet safety, literacy, media literacy, Net safety Online Safety 4.0, participation, protection, provision, risk prevention, social literacy, UN Convention, UNCRC

When kids are skilled navigators of our networked world

November 14, 2013 By Anne 1 Comment

We all – young people and everybody who works with them – are learning what that looks like: skilled navigation of a networked world. We're also working out what the skills are, how to teach them and what kind of environment (home, school and media environment) supports that learning. As a society, we've only just begun working the problem. The first 15 or so years of the public discussion … [Read more...] about When kids are skilled navigators of our networked world

Filed Under: Literacy & Citizenship, Parenting Tagged With: connected learning, Dave Eggers, digital citizenship, digital literacy, FOSI, Glen Warren, Marti Weston, media literacy, social literacy

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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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