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IBPA 2016: Focus on the positive

November 10, 2016 By Anne 2 Comments

It's fitting that the last day of a bullying prevention conference focusing on empathy, kindness and resilience happened to be Election Day 2016. Whether or not they were thinking about it, some 750 educators, students, researchers and practitioners together capped off possibly the most divisive, indecent, relationally challenged presidential election season in our history by modeling and … [Read more...] about IBPA 2016: Focus on the positive

Filed Under: bullying, cyberbullying, Research, Youth Tagged With: CCRC, Crimes Against Children Research Center, Heather Turner, IBPA, International Bullying Prevention Association, Kimberly Mitchell, Lisa Jones, Michele Borba, Sameer Hinduja

Tech likely not the main problem in cyberbullying: Breakthrough study

June 10, 2015 By Anne 2 Comments

There are some groundbreaking takeaways (and many more insights) in new research from the University of New Hampshire – "The Role of Technology in Peer Harassment: Does It Amplify Harm for Youth?" – and my headline is one of them. Another one is the answer to the question posed in the authors' headline: "no," their data indicates. But before going any further with the takeaways, a bit about the … [Read more...] about Tech likely not the main problem in cyberbullying: Breakthrough study

Filed Under: bullying, cyberbullying, Literacy & Citizenship, Research, Risk & Safety, School & Tech, Social Media, students, Youth Tagged With: Anne Shattuck, bullying, CCRC, Crimes Against Children Research Center, cyberbullying, digital harassment, digital literacy, Heather Turner, Janis Wolak, Kimberly Mitchell, Lisa Jones, online harassment, Parenting, SEL, social literacy, social-emotional learning, UNH

‘Bullying’ & ‘peer victimization’: Clearer terms, better communication

August 29, 2012 By Anne 6 Comments

I suspect two reasons why people (mistakenly) think cyberbullying is on the rise are… Its increased visibility: Cruel words and behaviors are unprecedentedly public now, because of the social Web, so that's what's actually growing – the exposure – which is sometimes confused with the behavior itself. The confusion needs to be cleared up. The exposure may be scary, but it's a net gain because … [Read more...] about ‘Bullying’ & ‘peer victimization’: Clearer terms, better communication

Filed Under: bullying, cyberbullying, Risk & Safety, victimization Tagged With: Alice Marwick, bullying, cyberbullying, danah boyd, David Finkelhor, Heather Turner, Karen Siris, Marianne Malmstrom, peer aggression, peer victimization, Sherry Hamby, social aggression, terminology

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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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