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Designing students: Check out these contests (learning opps)!

March 12, 2013 By Anne Leave a Comment

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These are projects that get young people and classrooms participating in the digital maker movement: Current or aspiring videogame designers and videographers have about a month to submit their creations to three different contests: The National STEM Videogame Challenge, Whyville's game design contest, and Trend Micro's What's Your Story video producing contest. Design a videogame Videogame … [Read more...] about Designing students: Check out these contests (learning opps)!

Filed Under: education technology, Literacy & Citizenship, Risk & Safety, School & Tech Tagged With: contests, digital media, ed tech, Joan Ganz Cooney Center, learning, maker movement, online safety, school, STEM, Trend Micro, video game design, video production, videographers, Whyville, youth

What we know & don’t know about kids’ online socializing: Key study

January 28, 2013 By Anne 4 Comments

Cooney Center's little robot graphic

Imagine a game in which a child not only discovers, collects, creates, and/or customizes 2- and 3-dimensional art objects that s/he then shares with fellow player-creators, but also creates his/her own levels of play. Imagine the literacies players could be developing in the process of playing such a game, including social literacy, through sharing, "liking," and reviewing each other's … [Read more...] about What we know & don’t know about kids’ online socializing: Key study

Filed Under: Research, School & Tech Tagged With: children, Cisco's Networking Academy, Club Penguin, Deborah Fields, Joan Ganz Cooney Center, LittleBigPlanet, research, Sara Grimes, Scratch, Social Media, social media research, U13s, Whyville

Surge in kids’ apps: Parents & providers sorting it out

January 25, 2012 By Anne 1 Comment

Kid app rankings by category

I've done it, have you? I have a feeling most of us have passed our cellphones back to a kid in the backseat so we could drive in peace while the child (who has been hounding us to let it happen) plays a game app. Of course, increasingly, this is happening with really little kids, because the bigger ones have their own cellphones ("way back" in 2010, Pew/Internet reported that 75% of US … [Read more...] about Surge in kids’ apps: Parents & providers sorting it out

Filed Under: gaming, Literacy & Citizenship, mobile, School & Tech, Social Media Tagged With: ACT, Dan Donahoo, education technology, educational apps, Joan Ganz Cooney Center, kids apps, mobile apps, Moms With Apps

The complexities of raising kids in a digital age: Study

June 16, 2011 By Anne 5 Comments

This was a fun study to read, especially because it tells the stories of the tech and family lives of Gabriella Guzman and Sierra Ramirez (ages 8 and 7, respectively) in the Los Angeles area. Of the children author Lori Takeuchi of the Joan Ganz Cooney Center writes, "They were somewhat ordinary as far as their digital media use was concerned. None were budding moviemakers, prodigy programmers, or … [Read more...] about The complexities of raising kids in a digital age: Study

Filed Under: Research, Social Media, Youth Tagged With: digital ages, digital media, Joan Ganz Cooney Center, kids and technology, Parenting, social media research

80% of US kids under 5 are online: Study

March 16, 2011 By Anne Leave a Comment

Those 0-to-5-year-olds are on the Net at least weekly, with about a quarter of three-year-olds online daily, increasing to about half by age 5, according to a just-released review of seven studies from the past five years by the Joan Ganz Cooney Center. The percentage of daily Net users rises to about two-thirds by age 8. "Children ages 5-9 average about 28 minutes online daily. In 2009, the … [Read more...] about 80% of US kids under 5 are online: Study

Filed Under: Research Tagged With: Joan Ganz Cooney Center, online kids, social media research

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Control Shift: a pivotal book for Internet safety
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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
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Let Grow Foundation
Making Caring Common
Raising Digital Natives, author Devorah Heitner's site
Renee Hobbs at the Media Education Lab
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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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