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Proposed ‘rightful’ framework for Internet safety

July 18, 2014 By Anne 2 Comments

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Internet safety is a basic right of Internet users. But it's not the only one. There are other fundamental rights that Net users of all ages have, and I propose that Internet safety will actually serve all Internet users better – and have much more relevance to the younger ones in our homes and schools – when we put it in context, in a framework of online rights. It's a framework for all users' … [Read more...] about Proposed ‘rightful’ framework for Internet safety

Filed Under: childrens rights, Internet safety education, Law & Policy, Online Safety 3.0, Risk & Safety, Youth Tagged With: Brian O'Neill, Internet safety, ISE, online safety, Sonia Livingstone, UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, UNCRC

Net safety’s ‘3 alarmist assumptions’: Researcher

May 22, 2014 By Anne 7 Comments

David Finkelhor

This is news, and not just for the Internet safety field. It's important for policymakers, parents, educators, researchers, healthcare providers and journalists to know about: In the Journal of Child Psychology, sociologist David Finkelhor, one of the US's most prominent experts on child victimization, challenges the "alarmism reflected by so much of the scholarly and journalistic literature" about … [Read more...] about Net safety’s ‘3 alarmist assumptions’: Researcher

Filed Under: Research, Risk & Safety Tagged With: CCRC, Crimes Against Children Research Center, David Finkelhor, EU Kids Online, Internet risk research, Internet safety, Lisa Jones, online risk research, Sonia Livingstone, University of New Hampshire, youth online risk

What’s (importantly) different about Snapchat

April 4, 2014 By Anne Leave a Comment

It's not what you might think – or what you might've read in the news. What makes Snapchat stand out in the crowd of social media apps, in fact what makes it "matter," as social media researcher danah boyd put it, "has to do with how it treats attention." Snapchat users don't just swipe through a gazillion photos in a stream or album. The app doesn't work that way. They actually pause and pay … [Read more...] about What’s (importantly) different about Snapchat

Filed Under: apps, mobile, Social Media Tagged With: danah boyd, Internet safety, mindfulness, Snapchat, Social Media

Social media reality check from Canadian youth: Key study

March 21, 2014 By Anne Leave a Comment

Before releasing its report on online conflict, MediaSmarts presented a much broader picture of young Canadians' experiences in social media: "Life Online." This is important context for any discussion about cyberbullying and other negative aspects of digitally informed life, whether we're setting policy at the household, school or national levels. "There are a lot of assumptions out there … [Read more...] about Social media reality check from Canadian youth: Key study

Filed Under: apps, gaming, kids, mobile, Parenting, Social Media, students, teens, tweens, videogames, Youth Tagged With: Internet safety, kids, MediaSmarts.ca, online lives, online safety, Parenting, Social Media, teens, Valerie Steeves, youth

Youth Voices & Outer Voices: 2 fine participatory media projects

March 12, 2014 By Anne Leave a Comment

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Two youth-serving, youth-participating projects were the highlights of last week's Digital Media & Learning Conference (#DML2014) for me: Youth Voices, by educators, for students and educators, and the Outer Voices Podcast, a student-guided digital radio program. There are never enough young people participating in conferences about media and education, youth risk and wellness or safety, … [Read more...] about Youth Voices & Outer Voices: 2 fine participatory media projects

Filed Under: Literacy & Citizenship, reputation, Research, Social Media, Youth Tagged With: #dml2014, Digital Media and Learning, DML, EDDA, Internet safety, Lisa Rothbard, National Writing Project, online reputation, Outer Voices Podcast, Paul Allison, students, teachers, youth participation, Youth Voices

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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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