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Literacy for a digital age: Transliteracy or what?

September 20, 2012 By Anne 3 Comments

Digital literacy educator Diana Graber is crowdsourcing a media literacy curriculum for 8th-graders at Journey School in southern California. It's Year 3 of the school's CyberCivics program that Diana's building, she writes in the CyberWise blog. Reading her resource-rich post got me thinking about all I've learned about digital literacy, media literacy, and social literacy since I first heard … [Read more...] about Literacy for a digital age: Transliteracy or what?

Filed Under: Literacy & Citizenship Tagged With: Barry Joseph, citizenship, Cyberwise, Diana Graber, digital citizenship, digital literacy, GoodPlay, Henry Jenkins, Howard Gardner, Jane Tallim, media literacy, MediaSmarts, new media literacy, Safer Internet Forum, SEL, social literacy, social-emotional learning, Sue Thomas, Tom Ipry, transliteracy, triliteracy

Help for teaching digital citizenship

April 12, 2010 By Anne 1 Comment

"The Internet is where children are growing up," the New York Times reports, citing Kaiser Family Foundation research suggesting that they're online or interacting with digital media just about every hour they're not asleep or in school. So it follows that they really need to learn what it means to be good people online as well as in real life. Or good digital citizens. More and more parents and … [Read more...] about Help for teaching digital citizenship

Filed Under: Literacy & Citizenship Tagged With: Common Sense Media, GoodPlay

The new media monsters we’ve created for our kids

April 9, 2010 By Anne 12 Comments

In adjusting to a media environment very different from the mass-media one we grew up in, we adults have created some monsters. They're large, intimidating "creatures" that threaten the mutually respectful parent-child and educator-student communication that young people want and deserve in this highly participatory, sometimes overwhelming new media environment.One of the monsters is the "digital … [Read more...] about The new media monsters we’ve created for our kids

Filed Under: adolescent development, child development, Copyright, kids, Law & Policy, Literacy & Citizenship, Risk & Safety, Social Media, teens, Youth Tagged With: GoodPlay, Henry Jenkins, New Media Literacies, Sonia Livingstone

Learning how to navigate virtual communities: Key to digital citizenship

May 13, 2009 By Anne Leave a Comment

"Once you enter digital media - whether through email, social networking, blogging, or playing a game - you simply don't know how wide a community you're part of, you can't control that.... This is unprecedented in human history," Howard Gardner told Education Week in this video. He went on to explain that, in the past, we all "evolved to deal with groups of 50 or 100 people whom we knew, they … [Read more...] about Learning how to navigate virtual communities: Key to digital citizenship

Filed Under: Ethics & Etiquette, Literacy & Citizenship, Social Media Tagged With: GoodPlay, Howard Gardner

A great teen-adult conversation to join

March 26, 2009 By Anne Leave a Comment

I've just joined the Focus on Digital Media community and hope you will too. This three-week-long online conversation starts April 13 (but you can register now here) and is the "first-ever among parents, educators, and teens about ethical questions in digital life ... questions like, "Should parents and teacher ‘friend’ their kids on Facebook?" It's a joint project of New York-based Global Kids, a … [Read more...] about A great teen-adult conversation to join

Filed Under: Literacy & Citizenship Tagged With: Common Sense Media, Focus on Digital Media, Global Kids, GoodPlay, New Media Literacies

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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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