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Rosalind Wiseman on how to talk with our sons

October 10, 2013 By Anne Leave a Comment

One of the things we ConnectSafely folk often say to parents asking us about online safety measures is, first and foremost, "Talk with your kids." We say that for a number of reasons, the chief one being that there is no single safety measure – whether it's a rule or parental-control tool – that's right for all kids. Internet use, like life (and embedded in it), is very individual. We use that … [Read more...] about Rosalind Wiseman on how to talk with our sons

Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: Larry Magid, Masterminds and Wingmen, Rosalind Wiseman

OSTWG report: Why a ‘living Internet’?

June 7, 2010 By Anne 21 Comments

"Youth Safety on a Living Internet," the title of the just-released report of the Online Safety & Technology Working Group (OSTWG), is significant. It says a lot about the state of youth Internet safety because it says a lot about the state of the Internet now. This is not just technology or even "content" we're talking about, as we all know. It's behavior, or sociality, every bit as much as … [Read more...] about OSTWG report: Why a ‘living Internet’?

Filed Under: Internet safety task force, Risk & Safety, Social Media Tagged With: Adam Thierer, CDT, Emma Llanso, Hemanshu Nigam, Justin Patchin, Larry Magid, living Internet, Marian Merritt, NTIA, OSTWG, Youth Safety on a Living Internet

This just in: Facebook makes privacy simpler

May 27, 2010 By Anne Leave a Comment

Simplicity is what Facebook says it has been hearing its users calling for, so simplicity is the main focus of the privacy-controls changes it announced today. More user control came in a close second. Here are the three key changes, which FB says it'll be rolling out "over the next few weeks": "One simple control to set who can see the content you post" – only friends, friends of friends, or … [Read more...] about This just in: Facebook makes privacy simpler

Filed Under: Literacy & Citizenship, Privacy, Social Media, social networking Tagged With: Facebook, Larry Magid, Privacy, privacy changes, privacy controls, privacy features, Social Media, social networking

Debating cyberbullying legislation

May 22, 2009 By Anne Leave a Comment

It's called the Cyberbullying Prevention Act of 2009, but some are calling it the "Censorship Act of 2009." The bill, introduced in the House of Representatives by Rep. Linda Sanchez (D-CA), "is designed to prevent cyberbullying, making it punishable by a fine and up to two years in prison," FOXNews.com reports. One critic of the bill, UCLA law Prof. Eugene Volokh, said that - if the law were … [Read more...] about Debating cyberbullying legislation

Filed Under: cyberbullying, Law & Policy, Risk & Safety Tagged With: Cyberbullying Prevention Act, Eugene Volokh, Helen A.S. Popkin, Larry Magid, Representative Sanchez

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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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