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Digital youth: Honor ALL their rights

April 10, 2019 By Anne 4 Comments

This is a pivotal year for children’s online safety and human rights. One important reason is the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child’s call for public comments to help it develop the first General Comment on the digital part of fulfilling children’s human rights. Those rights are extensive. There are 54 articles in the Convention on the Rights of the Child, falling into 3 categories labeled … [Read more...] about Digital youth: Honor ALL their rights

Filed Under: childrens rights, Law & Policy, Youth Tagged With: Alicia Blum-Ross, Amanda Third, Committee on the Rights of the Child, Council of Europe, CRC, digital rights, EU Kids Online, General Comment, Henry Jenkins, Jens Qvortrup, screen time, Sonia Livingstone, tech addition, Tijana Milosevic, UNCRC

We need to manage the social media backlash too

February 5, 2018 By Anne 2 Comments

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It's like a moral panic on steroids. Adding to the "reckoning" already under way since the 2016 election (see Related links below) is the news yesterday of a new, high-profile coalition of some of social media's creators and backers and Common Sense Media. The steroids part is the funding ($7 million from individuals, the Omidyar Network and Common Sense Media), the PR ($50 million in donated … [Read more...] about We need to manage the social media backlash too

Filed Under: Parenting, Research, Risk & Safety Tagged With: Anya Kamanetz, Common Sense Media, David Finkelhor, digital rights, Henry Jenkins, Sonia Livingstone, Stephen Heppell

For kids’ sake, don’t ‘black box’ social media

June 5, 2015 By Anne Leave a Comment

For our children's sake, it's more important than ever that we not "black box" our media, whether as researchers or as parents and educators. An essay from psychologist and media professor Sonia Livingstone in the new scholarly journal Social Media + Society got me thinking about this. Dr. Livingstone observes that scholars in disciplines other than media and communications are doing that … [Read more...] about For kids’ sake, don’t ‘black box’ social media

Filed Under: empathy, Parenting, Risk & Safety, Social Media, Youth Tagged With: Aspen Task Force on Learning & the Internet, danah boyd, Henry Jenkins, Internet safety, ISTTF, John Seely Brown, online safety, OSTWG, Pew Research, Sonia Livingstone

‘Disconnected’: Crucial book for closing the ‘ethics gap’ online

March 16, 2015 By Anne 1 Comment

Disconnected book cover

I don't know about the millions of people in developing countries going online for the first time with mobile phones but, here in the developed world, something strange happened when we moved onto the Web nearly 20 years ago. It's as if we checked our thousands of years of social-norms and ethics development at the door of cyberspace. Somehow we saw that space as "technology" and got stuck there – … [Read more...] about ‘Disconnected’: Crucial book for closing the ‘ethics gap’ online

Filed Under: adolescent development, child development, Ethics & Etiquette, Literacy & Citizenship, Parenting, Research, Social Media, social norms, Youth Tagged With: Berkman Center, Carrie James, consequence thinking, digital ethics, digital literacy, digital youth, ethical thinking, ethics, Good Play Project, Harvard School of Education, Henry Jenkins, media literacy, moral thinking, New Media Literacies Project, Parenting, Project Zero, social literacy, social-emotional learning

The videogame discourse: Default to open-mindedness!

May 7, 2014 By Anne Leave a Comment

My heart sinks when I see uncritical thinking in commentaries from Internet safety advocates about the media young people love – thinking that defaults (and contributes to a society-level default) to fear that new media's harmful and young users are either potential victims or up to no good. Take videogames, for example. We know that… "Videogame play is pervasive throughout our society," as … [Read more...] about The videogame discourse: Default to open-mindedness!

Filed Under: addiction, gaming, Research, Risk & Safety, Social Media, videogames, Youth Tagged With: Christopher Ferguson, Daphne Bavelier, digital literacy, Henry Jenkins, Jane McGonigal, literacy, media literacy, SEL, social literacy, social-emotional learning, videogames

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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
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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