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Counterspeech: A tool for students who want to counter online hate

September 29, 2017 By Anne 2 Comments

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Now, in time for National Bullying Prevention Month 2017, students have solid, research-based guidance for countering online hate, harassment and bullying – in the form of a cartoon! "Counterspeech DOs & DON'Ts" is the result of a months-long collaboration of iCanHelpline.org, iHeartMob.org, #ICANHELP, Project HEAR, The Dangerous Speech Project and some outstanding student advisers in … [Read more...] about Counterspeech: A tool for students who want to counter online hate

Filed Under: bullying, cyberbullying, hate speech, Literacy & Citizenship, Research, Risk & Safety Tagged With: bullying, counter speech, counterspeech, cyberbullying, dangerous speech, Heartmob, icanhelp, iHeartmob, iHollaback, Project HEAR, Susan Benesch

From bystanders to ‘upstanders’ & leaders: How it’s done

September 22, 2015 By Anne 1 Comment

This is one way it's done, anyway – the way #iCANHELP does it. And in more than a decade of writing about solutions to anti-social behavior online, I haven't seen one as effective, pro-social and pro-student as #iCANHELP. [Disclosure: I'm working with #iCANHELP to pilot a social media helpline for schools this year, so I'm biased, but this is why I'm working with them – besides the fact that 1) … [Read more...] about From bystanders to ‘upstanders’ & leaders: How it’s done

Filed Under: cyberbullying, empathy, Ethics & Etiquette, Literacy & Citizenship, Risk & Safety, School & Tech, Social Media, social norms, Youth Tagged With: icanhelp, Kim Karr, Matthew Soeth

iCanHelpline launched!

August 17, 2015 By Anne Leave a Comment

I'm thrilled to tell you that, after a successful crowdfunding campaign and with support from a number of social media companies and the Digital Trust Foundation, iCanHelpline.org, launched today. A joint project of Net Family News and #iCANHELP, it's the California pilot for a national social media "helpdesk" for schools. Though there are Internet helplines in many countries, none are just for … [Read more...] about iCanHelpline launched!

Filed Under: Risk & Safety, School & Tech, school policy Tagged With: Crash Override Network, cyberbullying, districts, Heartmob, icanhelp, iCanHelpline, Internet safety, POSH, revenge porn hotline, schools, sexting, Social Media Helpline

Fresh data on US kids’ social media use

June 9, 2014 By Anne Leave a Comment

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Young people's social media interests are changing right along with the media, according to the latest Speak Up study, which surveyed more than 325,000 students, along with parents, teachers and administrators. "Only 30% of middle school students and 39% of high school students now say they're maintaining a social networking site," says Project Tomorrow, which conducts the annual survey, "a … [Read more...] about Fresh data on US kids’ social media use

Filed Under: kids, Parenting, Research, Social Media, teens, Youth Tagged With: icanhelp, Instagram, MMOGs, Project Tomorrow, Snapchat, Speak Up survey, twitter, Vine

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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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