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A YouTube for the littlest video viewers

February 23, 2015 By Anne 2 Comments

Think of YouTube Kids as digital training wheels for the little video viewers at your house - something a lot of parents have been wanting for a very long time. We all know how popular but not always appropriate YouTube is for kids. Problem solved. Designed for kids through age 8, YouTube Kids carefully screens videos so the littlest online viewers can satisfy their seemingly over-active curiosity … [Read more...] about A YouTube for the littlest video viewers

Filed Under: apps, kids, mobile, Parenting, Social Media, video, Youth Tagged With: Android, app, Google, iOS, iPad, iPhone, kids, mobile, video app, videos, YouTube

At the top of kids’ wish lists

December 11, 2013 By Anne Leave a Comment

Eighty-eight percent of US 12-to-17-year-olds want something digital for the holidays this year, CNET reports, and 69% want an Apple product. For girls (and teens overall), the iPhone tops wish lists, for boys it's the PlayStation 4. The iPad and Xbox One were close to the top, followed by an Apple iPod. The survey, by market researcher TNS Global for Ebates.com found that parents' guesses about … [Read more...] about At the top of kids’ wish lists

Filed Under: kids, Social Media, Youth Tagged With: iPad, iPhone, PlayStation 4, teens, Xbox One

Mobile learning & edugames taking off worldwide

August 26, 2013 By Anne 3 Comments

Whether it's the chicken or the egg – the device or the edugames – fueling the growth isn't completely clear, but "tablets are proliferating everywhere across the planet," said Sam Adkins, head of research for market research firm Ambient Insight, at the Serious Play Conference in Redmond, Wash., last week. He was referring to mobile learning – especially on tablets, where school's concerned – and … [Read more...] about Mobile learning & edugames taking off worldwide

Filed Under: apps, mobile, Research, Social Media Tagged With: Akash, Ambient Insight, Android, apps, cellphones, educational games, edugames, games, iPad, iPhone, market research, mobile learning, Samsung, tablets

Children’s library-on-a-tablet

August 6, 2013 By Anne Leave a Comment

In 2007 and '08, we took our kids, then 10 and 16, around the world, and we certainly could've used this technology and media then! Kids can bring along hundreds of books that take up no more space than a Kindle (introduced after we left on our 10-month trip August 2007) or the iPad, which debuted in 2010. A downside, though, might be parents having to ask kids what they're doing on their tablets … [Read more...] about Children’s library-on-a-tablet

Filed Under: apps, mobile, Social Media Tagged With: apps, Ginny Gunderson, iPad, library, readers, reading, tablets

The power of kid-powered tablets

June 19, 2013 By Anne Leave a Comment

This article about tablets in school has something to teach us about tablets at home too. Tablets – iPads, Kindle Fires, Meeps, Nabis, iTouches (see this) – and even the apps on them aren't the main event. They can be seen as the means to an end: creativity, communication, learning, fun (author and game designer Ralph Koster says that "fun is just another word for learning"). What a child brings … [Read more...] about The power of kid-powered tablets

Filed Under: education technology, Literacy & Citizenship, Parenting, School & Tech Tagged With: iPad, iPod Touch, Kindle Fire, Lisa Guernsey, meep, Nabi, tablets

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NAMLE, the National Association for Media Literacy Education
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Center for Democracy & Technology
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Childnet International
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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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