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‘Save the Universe’: Clear space for learning

March 13, 2012 By Anne 5 Comments

Last week, Part 1 about the "whitewater-kayaking kind of learning needed today"; here, in Part 2, a great example: An alternative headline might be: "A bucket of bricks for learning," but I'll get to the bricks in a minute. First the backstory. Marianne Malmstrom teaches the richest possible kind of media literacy to and with, elementary and middle school students at the Elisabeth Morrow School … [Read more...] about ‘Save the Universe’: Clear space for learning

Filed Under: education technology, Literacy & Citizenship, School & Tech, Social Media Tagged With: digital citizenship, Elisabeth Morrow School, gaming, learning with games, Lego Universe, Marianne Malmstrom, media literacy, MineCraft, MMOGs, new media literacy, virtual worlds

My ISTE 2011: Notes from a giant conference

July 1, 2011 By Anne Leave a Comment

To me, ISTE – with some 18,000 attendees from 68 countries having converged on Philadelphia this week – is like looking out the window from a fast train through a dense urban area: mostly a blur, but your eye freeze-frames what's meaningful to you. So I always come away feeling enriched by the updates and insights I glean and the fresh dose of inspiration I get from connecting with people who love … [Read more...] about My ISTE 2011: Notes from a giant conference

Filed Under: education technology, School & Tech Tagged With: Andrew Wheelock, Bernajean Porter, Camilla Gagliolo, Chris Lehmann, CoSN, Craig Lawson, education technology, Gary Stager, Horizon Report, ISTE 2011, ISTE conference, John Medina, Lego Universe, Lucas Gillespie, Marianne Malmstrom, MineCraft, Peggy Sheehy, QuestAtlantis, ReactionGrid, SIGVE, Tom Whitby, WoW in School, youth agency

Virtual world ‘mall’ now has online-safety ‘store’

February 25, 2011 By Anne 1 Comment

Everloop, a new social site aimed at kids 8-13, is not just another virtual world. Or social network site. It's not a kids' Facebook or alternative to Whyville.net or LEGO Universe, contrary to what's being reported (see Mashable). But it's also not just an online space. What it is depends on who's looking at it. To kids and parents, it's like a virtual-world and/or social-network mall that's … [Read more...] about Virtual world ‘mall’ now has online-safety ‘store’

Filed Under: Risk & Safety, School & Tech, Social Media Tagged With: Common Sense Media, digital citizenship, education technology, Everloop, i-SAFE, Lego Universe, media literacy, online safety, QuestAtlantis, Social Media, Whyville

Real competition for Teen Second Life?

November 14, 2008 By Anne Leave a Comment

There are some great virtual worlds out there for kids' entertainment, but nothing quite holds a candle to Teen Second Life for its collective-creativity tools. Until Lego Universe arrives on the scene, says Barry Joseph, director of Global Kids' Online Leadership Program, in his blog. In the organization's blog he refers to it as "a bright light in the distance," he wrote in the organization's … [Read more...] about Real competition for Teen Second Life?

Filed Under: Social Media, teens, Youth Tagged With: Barry Joseph, Global Kids, Lego Universe, Teen Second Life

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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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