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The next version of ‘Internet safety’: A look under the hood

November 10, 2014 By Anne 2 Comments

"Under the bonnet," colleagues across the Atlantic and Down Under might say. I put it that way because this post is a bit more e-safety geeky than usual. Parents and caregivers who don't geek out on this topic might find this mildly interesting, though, because we're talking about kids' wellbeing in media and in life. Going forward, the value of "Internet safety" – if the concept doesn't … [Read more...] about The next version of ‘Internet safety’: A look under the hood

Filed Under: childrens rights, Internet safety education, Literacy & Citizenship, Online Safety 3.0, Risk & Safety, Youth Tagged With: #FOSI2014, children's rights, digital literacy, e-safety, FOSI, ICMEC, Internet safety, literacy, media literacy, Net safety Online Safety 4.0, participation, protection, provision, risk prevention, social literacy, UN Convention, UNCRC

Less parental control, more support of kids’ self-regulation: Study

November 2, 2014 By Anne Leave a Comment

It isn't the first time research has found that "parental control" is not the best way to keep children safe online and on phones. "Rather than restricting or monitoring internet use, parents should let their children discover the net, both good and bad, themselves," the BBC cites a new survey as saying. It's encouraging to see news stories like this; they've been rare over the past decade+, so … [Read more...] about Less parental control, more support of kids’ self-regulation: Study

Filed Under: Literacy & Citizenship, Parenting, Risk & Safety, Youth Tagged With: agency, Andrew Przbylski, Internet safety, literacy, Oxford Internet Institute, parental controls, Parenting, parents, The Parent Zone

Powerful lessons for preventing bullying & cyberbullying

October 1, 2014 By Anne 1 Comment

Crowded school hallway

It's October already, so National Cyber Security Awareness Month (#NCSAM2014) and National Bullying Prevention Month have arrived – offering a good reminder that, in today's increasingly user-driven digital environments, digital safety and security depend on all Net users of all ages. Care and respect for each other's property, privacy, identity, emotional safety and digital security – just about … [Read more...] about Powerful lessons for preventing bullying & cyberbullying

Filed Under: bullying, cyberbullying, Literacy & Citizenship, Risk & Safety Tagged With: bullying, CDC, cyberbullying, Lee Rush, literacy, MARC, McGonigal, Patricia Agatston, restorative justice, restorative practices, SEL

The videogame discourse: Default to open-mindedness!

May 7, 2014 By Anne Leave a Comment

My heart sinks when I see uncritical thinking in commentaries from Internet safety advocates about the media young people love – thinking that defaults (and contributes to a society-level default) to fear that new media's harmful and young users are either potential victims or up to no good. Take videogames, for example. We know that… "Videogame play is pervasive throughout our society," as … [Read more...] about The videogame discourse: Default to open-mindedness!

Filed Under: addiction, gaming, Research, Risk & Safety, Social Media, videogames, Youth Tagged With: Christopher Ferguson, Daphne Bavelier, digital literacy, Henry Jenkins, Jane McGonigal, literacy, media literacy, SEL, social literacy, social-emotional learning, videogames

The ‘lived curriculum,’ Part 2: What that looks like

November 19, 2013 By Anne 1 Comment

Part 1 looked at citizenship as a disposition and practice in digital environments, not an academic subject to be taught. Here, a little more about what that looks like in digital spaces used in classrooms – from the viewpoint of an educator who has worked with teachers and students in them for over a decade…. Here's what digital citizenship practice looks like in Quest Atlantis, an educational … [Read more...] about The ‘lived curriculum,’ Part 2: What that looks like

Filed Under: Literacy & Citizenship Tagged With: Bronwyn Stuckey, curriculum, digital citizenship, literacy

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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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