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Finally defining digital citizenship: Help from top researchers

November 30, 2015 By Anne 2 Comments

If it's to have any real impact, “digital citizenship” needs to be clearly and simply defined. That’s what the US’s leading youth online risk researchers propose in the latest study on digital citizenship. In fact, the University of New Hampshire researchers made three recommendations: Separate it from digital literacy (Internet and technical skills) and cyberbullying prevention, which are … [Read more...] about Finally defining digital citizenship: Help from top researchers

Filed Under: childrens rights, Literacy & Citizenship, participatory culture, Research, School & Tech, school policy, Youth Tagged With: CCRC, digital citizenship, Kimberly Mitchell, Lisa Jones, University of New Hampshire

Online harassment, bullying: Wisdom from someone who’s been there

October 4, 2015 By Anne 2 Comments

To mark National Bullying Prevention Month, here – in addition to some fresh research on bystanders further down – are some simple but powerful insights from someone who has been and continues to be subjected to severe online harassment and is now helping other victims recover from it.... "I'm a game developer, I'm a systems thinker so I can see patterns in behavior," said Zoe Quinn, who, … [Read more...] about Online harassment, bullying: Wisdom from someone who’s been there

Filed Under: bullying, cyberbullying, Risk & Safety Tagged With: #gamergate, bullying, CCRC, cyberbullying, Kevin Marks, Lisa Jones, online harassment, Youth Voice Project, Zoe Quinn

Tech likely not the main problem in cyberbullying: Breakthrough study

June 10, 2015 By Anne 2 Comments

There are some groundbreaking takeaways (and many more insights) in new research from the University of New Hampshire – "The Role of Technology in Peer Harassment: Does It Amplify Harm for Youth?" – and my headline is one of them. Another one is the answer to the question posed in the authors' headline: "no," their data indicates. But before going any further with the takeaways, a bit about the … [Read more...] about Tech likely not the main problem in cyberbullying: Breakthrough study

Filed Under: bullying, cyberbullying, Literacy & Citizenship, Research, Risk & Safety, School & Tech, Social Media, students, Youth Tagged With: Anne Shattuck, bullying, CCRC, Crimes Against Children Research Center, cyberbullying, digital harassment, digital literacy, Heather Turner, Janis Wolak, Kimberly Mitchell, Lisa Jones, online harassment, Parenting, SEL, social literacy, social-emotional learning, UNH

Net safety’s ‘3 alarmist assumptions’: Researcher

May 22, 2014 By Anne 7 Comments

David Finkelhor

This is news, and not just for the Internet safety field. It's important for policymakers, parents, educators, researchers, healthcare providers and journalists to know about: In the Journal of Child Psychology, sociologist David Finkelhor, one of the US's most prominent experts on child victimization, challenges the "alarmism reflected by so much of the scholarly and journalistic literature" about … [Read more...] about Net safety’s ‘3 alarmist assumptions’: Researcher

Filed Under: Research, Risk & Safety Tagged With: CCRC, Crimes Against Children Research Center, David Finkelhor, EU Kids Online, Internet risk research, Internet safety, Lisa Jones, online risk research, Sonia Livingstone, University of New Hampshire, youth online risk

Challenging ‘Internet safety’ as a subject to be taught

September 4, 2013 By Anne 8 Comments

"Way back" in 2008 – at least a decade after "online safety" was starting to be seen as a subject that needed to be taught to children – I suggested that it was becoming obsolete. Now what I'm seeing is that it never really was a single stand-alone subject that could become obsolete. We'll look back on it as a risk-prevention placeholder that society created until our research-based understanding … [Read more...] about Challenging ‘Internet safety’ as a subject to be taught

Filed Under: Internet safety education, Law & Policy, Literacy & Citizenship, Research, Risk & Safety Tagged With: Committee for Children, Crimes Against Children Research Center, danah boyd, Kimberly Mitchell, Lisa Jones, Renee Hobbs, Wendy Walsh

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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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