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The generation-destroying smartphone: Researchers push back

August 12, 2017 By Anne 30 Comments

Teen crowd shot

Two years ago, the headline in the Washington Post about researcher Jean Twenge's work was, "Happiness levels are rising for teens, but not for people older than 30," and she was quoted as saying, "our current culture is giving teens what they need, but not mature adults what they need." I'm confused – because the headline in the latest Atlantic Monthly about Dr. Twenge's work suggests the … [Read more...] about The generation-destroying smartphone: Researchers push back

Filed Under: Research, Risk & Safety, Youth Tagged With: Alexandra Samuel, Amanda Lenhart, CCRC, Christopher Ferguson, Crimes Against Children Research Center, David Finkelhor, Emily Weinstein, Howard Gardner, juvenoia, Katie Davis, Sarah Rose Cavanagh, Sonia Livingstone, Vicky Rideout

Calling our children narcissists on ‘a sociopathic scale’: Really!?

February 26, 2014 By Anne 1 Comment

A column in The Guardian's Web site called "Comment Is Free" (I guess you get what you pay for) starts off with an anecdote that reads like the heart-stopping opening scene of a new Netflix crime drama. Nothing wrong with that; grab a few more readers, sell a few more newspapers. What's fatiguing is the writer using a tragic public murder to begin yet another commentary about today's narcissistic … [Read more...] about Calling our children narcissists on ‘a sociopathic scale’: Really!?

Filed Under: Social Media Tagged With: digital media, Howard Gardner, Social Media, The App Generation, The Guardian

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

New media monsters II: From digital people to ‘digital wisdom’

February 4, 2011 By Anne 8 Comments

I'm using "digital people" as shorthand for "digital natives" and "digital immigrants," which together have become one of the "new media monsters" I wrote about, gosh, last April. This long overdue post is Part 2, because I want to be sure you know that even the person who coined "digital natives," Marc Prensky, himself has moved beyond this term that suggests children are alien life forms that … [Read more...] about New media monsters II: From digital people to ‘digital wisdom’

Filed Under: Literacy & Citizenship, Social Media, Youth Tagged With: 21st-century skills, child development, digital literacy, digital natives, digital wisdom, Howard Gardner, Marc Prensky, Parenting

Digital risk, digital citizenship

May 17, 2009 By Anne 6 Comments

It's becoming increasingly clear that - in a highly participatory environment such as the fixed and mobile social Web - risk and citizenship are directly related. Risk-prevention experts show how online community mitigates risk. Inner thoughts are expressed outwardly, and peers notice a friend in crisis and get help by any means possible. Online social networks are powerful tools for peer help and … [Read more...] about Digital risk, digital citizenship

Filed Under: Literacy & Citizenship, Risk & Safety Tagged With: Henry Jenkins, Howard Gardner, National Suicide Prevention Lifeline

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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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