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Most teen social Web users well-adjusted

May 20, 2010 By Anne 1 Comment

"Kids most likely to spend a lot of time texting and on Facebook, among other networking sites, may be more well-adjusted," the Los Angeles Times reports, pointing to several new studies. The body of research on how kids use digital media is growing fast, and new articles in academic journals are confirming what we collectively already knew: that a child's experience online is very much a … [Read more...] about Most teen social Web users well-adjusted

Filed Under: Parenting, Social Media, social networking Tagged With: ISTTF, Parenting, Sahara Byrne, social networking

Net safety: How social networks can be protective

October 5, 2009 By Anne 12 Comments

Hmm. It's arresting to think about what Stewart Wolf, MD, discovered and presented at medical conferences – as told by Malcolm Gladwell in Outliers – in the context of social media and online safety today. Back in the 1950s, he found a community in Pennsylvania statistically very free of the No. 1 medical concern of the time, heart disease, and looked into what was going on there. When Wolf … [Read more...] about Net safety: How social networks can be protective

Filed Under: Internet safety task force, Risk & Safety, social networking Tagged With: digital citizenship, Digital Nation, Digital Youth Project, guild effect, Henry Jenkins, ISTTF, James Paul Gee, Malcolm Gladwell, online safety, Stewart Wolf

Online ‘walled garden’ aimed at tween girls

July 8, 2009 By Anne Leave a Comment

Here's an innovative idea for parents (of girls 8-12) who are concerned about predators: My Secret Circle. It gives new meaning to the safe playground or walled garden idea, because - with this hardware product, the My Secret Circle Access Key (pictured here), which plugs into a computer USB port - groups of real-life friends can socialize online while being completely closed off from the Internet … [Read more...] about Online ‘walled garden’ aimed at tween girls

Filed Under: cyberbullying, Internet safety task force, predators, Risk & Safety, social networking Tagged With: ISTTF, My Secret Circle

Meaty perspective on sexting

June 26, 2009 By Anne Leave a Comment

Teens sharing nude or provocative photos is not brand-new, says Dr. Richard Chalfen at the Center for Media and Child Health, and there are "at least 4 kinds of sub-cultures crucial to understanding the 'sexting' phenomenon"; "media culture," "digital culture," "intense visual culture," and "adolescent culture." Chalfen explains each one in "Teen Culture," the first of a very digestible three-part … [Read more...] about Meaty perspective on sexting

Filed Under: Internet safety task force, Risk & Safety, sexting Tagged With: Children's Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, ISTTF, media culture, mediatrician, Michael Rich, Richard Chalfen

Sex offenders in social sites: Consider the facts

February 4, 2009 By Anne Leave a Comment

The only way we can have solid, progressive parent-child and public discussions about children's online safety is if we can keep the facts in mind when we read the latest news about predators in Facebook and MySpace - facts based on consistent, peer-reviewed academic research about online risk. So here are the key facts to keep in mind: Not all children are equally at risk of Net-related sexual … [Read more...] about Sex offenders in social sites: Consider the facts

Filed Under: Internet safety task force, predators, Research, Risk & Safety Tagged With: Facebook, ISTTF, MySpace, Pew Internet

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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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