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One of the best back-to-school messages I’ve seen

September 12, 2012 By Anne 1 Comment

Well, two great back-to-school messages, actually. I'll get to the one from two organizations in a minute. First, one from a parent: At a time when so many families are feeling swamped with stuff added to schedules and school supplies lists – and that's on top of run-of-the-mill, everyday parental pressures that probably include worries about what young peers are up to online, in games, and on … [Read more...] about One of the best back-to-school messages I’ve seen

Filed Under: Literacy & Citizenship, Social Media, students, teens, Youth Tagged With: back to school, Born This Way Foundation, bullying, cyberbullying, FOSI, grassroots, MacArthur Foundation, Platform for Good, school, social action, social good, students, youth, Youth Advisory Board

The whitewater-kayaking kind of learning needed today

March 6, 2012 By Anne 5 Comments

Whitewater kayaker

This week: the first of a three-part series on two educators working in very different spheres – John Seely Brown at the University of Southern California, helping adults think creatively about learning, and Marianne Malmstrom at the Elisabeth Morrow School in New Jersey, helping children learn creatively Play is essential, says John Seely Brown, to becoming the kind of learner that keeps … [Read more...] about The whitewater-kayaking kind of learning needed today

Filed Under: education technology, Literacy & Citizenship, Social Media Tagged With: 21st century learning, digital learning, digital media, DML, Douglas Thomas, homo ludens, John Seely Brown, MacArthur Foundation, MineCraft, play, school, videogames, World of Warcraft

Digital achievement badges for people of all ages

November 22, 2011 By Anne Leave a Comment

Unlike the Girl Scout/Boy Scout ones many of us grew up earning, these merit badges – though just as visually appealing – are digital, for people of all ages, and will go into Facebook pages, blogs, and resume Web sites. They'll spotlight skills and achievements not necessarily acquired in traditional environments like school, adding graphical credentials to people's digital resumes and … [Read more...] about Digital achievement badges for people of all ages

Filed Under: Literacy & Citizenship, media shift, Social Media Tagged With: Department of Education, digital badges, digital portfolio, Intel, job-seeking, lifelong learning, MacArthur Foundation, NASA, PBS, portfolio, resumes, Social Media, Veterans Affairs

Quest Atlantis, VWs & academic situational awareness

December 8, 2009 By Anne Leave a Comment

In a virtual world, science students can be scientists. In Quest Atlantis, students explore scientific problems or quests, so that – in addition to learning scientific content on quests – they find themselves in situations where they have to put that new knowledge to actual use. In other words they're being scientists, not just learning science. What a "science class"! Prof. Sasha Barab, one of … [Read more...] about Quest Atlantis, VWs & academic situational awareness

Filed Under: education technology, Social Media, virtual worlds Tagged With: MacArthur Foundation, Quest Atlantis, Sasha Barab

School & social media: Uber big picture

May 20, 2009 By Anne 2 Comments

When I think about how the book, enabled by Gutenberg's press, was pretty controversial back in the day (15th c.) and probably didn't make it into "school" for a while (though it fueled the Renaissance and the Reformation), maybe I understand why there's resistance to using today's media - called social media - in school. But things are moving a little faster these days, and students are actively … [Read more...] about School & social media: Uber big picture

Filed Under: education technology, Social Media Tagged With: Digital Youth Project, Digitales, MacArthur Foundation, Peggy Sheehy

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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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