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Post-FOSI: Online safety now, predictions for 2020

November 20, 2017 By Anne 1 Comment

"Trust and civility" were, so very appropriately, the focus of the Family Online Safety Institute's just-ended annual conference this challenging year. "We have witnessed countless examples…of ways that trust in institutions, in organizations and even in each other has been eroded," FOSI CEO Stephen Balkam noted in his opening remarks. "And we have watched how basic civility has been challenged … [Read more...] about Post-FOSI: Online safety now, predictions for 2020

Filed Under: Law & Policy, Literacy & Citizenship, Parenting, Research, Risk & Safety Tagged With: CCRC, David Finkelhor, FOSI, Marc Brackett, Robin Rasking, Stephen Balkam

Online harassment, bullying far from ‘kid stuff’: Fresh data

October 23, 2014 By Anne Leave a Comment

CASEL's social competencies

  A new study from the Pew Internet Project confirms yet again that no particular demographic has a monopoly on online harassment and bullying, certainly not kids and teens. "Fully 73% of adult Internet users have seen someone being harassed in some way online and 40% have personally experienced it," Pew reports – and, astoundingly, 70% of the youngest adults … [Read more...] about Online harassment, bullying far from ‘kid stuff’: Fresh data

Filed Under: adolescent development, bullying, child development, cyberbullying, empathy, Literacy & Citizenship, Parenting, Youth Tagged With: anti-social, CASEL, CDC, child development, David Lykken, Marc Brackett, Martha Stout, Pew Internet Project, sociopaths

Leadership in bullying prevention and so much more

August 17, 2014 By Anne Leave a Comment

Scott McLeod slide

We need to prevent and solve bullying. No question. But we also need to encourage and empower our children with the knowledge that most kids don't bully, that bullying is not normative – that, in fact, kindness is. As Dr. Marc Brackett at Yale University's Center for Emotional Intelligence said Friday at the federal government's Bullying Prevention Summit in Washington, "Children are wired for … [Read more...] about Leadership in bullying prevention and so much more

Filed Under: bullying, cyberbullying, education technology, Literacy & Citizenship, Research, Risk & Safety, School & Tech, school policy, Social Media Tagged With: Aspen Task Force, bullying summit, CASEL, digital literacy, educators, Federal Partners in Bullying Prevention, Leadership Day, Marc Brackett, media literacy, school administrators, Scott McLeod, social-emotional learning, the literacies of the digital age

All kids deserve the safety & other benefits of social-emotional learning

October 18, 2013 By Anne 4 Comments

Think how digital spaces, homes, schools, workplaces and everywhere else we human beings congregate would change were every child to be kindly, respectfully taught the following skills: Self-awareness: The ability to 1) recognize emotions and thoughts and how they affect behavior and 2) assess one’s strengths and limitations Self-management: The ability to regulate emotions, … [Read more...] about All kids deserve the safety & other benefits of social-emotional learning

Filed Under: bullying, cyberbullying, Literacy & Citizenship, Risk & Safety, School & Tech, school policy, Social Media Tagged With: bullying, CASEL, cyberbullying, Marc Brackett, SEL, social literacy, social-emotional learning

Wisdom about bullying from a former target

June 6, 2013 By Anne Leave a Comment

Garret reading his poem

There's probably no better testimony to the power of social-emotional learning than this UK student's poem about what happens to the "bully" when victimizing someone else (don't miss this 1:25 min. video of Garrett reading his poem). Garrett was a student at New Line Learning Academy in Maidstone, Kent, UK, when he read this poem in 2011 (he may still be, since it's a school for students aged … [Read more...] about Wisdom about bullying from a former target

Filed Under: Literacy & Citizenship, Risk & Safety, School & Tech, school policy Tagged With: bullying, cyberbullying, Marc Brackett, school, SEL, social literacy, social-emotional literacy, students, The Ruler Approach

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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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