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Social media literacy 101 (for adults)

June 14, 2015 By Anne 1 Comment

"I can't even" possibly know what I'm seeing in teens' tweets, texts and posts. Not until I ask them. The very fact that I continued that sentence past the close quote demonstrates that. What do I mean? They hide meaning in plain site. Have you heard researcher danah boyd's term "social steganography"? It means hiding in plain view in social media. She wrote about that way back in 2010, and it's … [Read more...] about Social media literacy 101 (for adults)

Filed Under: adolescent development, Literacy & Citizenship, Parenting, Social Media, teens, Youth Tagged With: danah boyd, I can't even, media literacy, Parenting, social literacy, social steganography, teens

‘Disconnected’: Crucial book for closing the ‘ethics gap’ online

March 16, 2015 By Anne 1 Comment

Disconnected book cover

I don't know about the millions of people in developing countries going online for the first time with mobile phones but, here in the developed world, something strange happened when we moved onto the Web nearly 20 years ago. It's as if we checked our thousands of years of social-norms and ethics development at the door of cyberspace. Somehow we saw that space as "technology" and got stuck there – … [Read more...] about ‘Disconnected’: Crucial book for closing the ‘ethics gap’ online

Filed Under: adolescent development, child development, Ethics & Etiquette, Literacy & Citizenship, Parenting, Research, Social Media, social norms, Youth Tagged With: Berkman Center, Carrie James, consequence thinking, digital ethics, digital literacy, digital youth, ethical thinking, ethics, Good Play Project, Harvard School of Education, Henry Jenkins, media literacy, moral thinking, New Media Literacies Project, Parenting, Project Zero, social literacy, social-emotional learning

MySpace’s nonexistence greatly exaggerated

January 23, 2015 By Admin Leave a Comment

MySpace is alive and well and apparently never lost its core group of users, music fans. More than 50 million people visited what many people think of as the original social network service this past November (the latest monthly figure available), a 575% increase, the Wall Street Journal reports. And they viewed more than 300 million videos in the month of November (the latest monthly figure … [Read more...] about MySpace’s nonexistence greatly exaggerated

Filed Under: music, Social Media, social networking Tagged With: advertising, media literacy, MySpace, social media marketing, Viant

‘State of the Union’ & the student part of student privacy protection

January 22, 2015 By Admin Leave a Comment

There's a lot of confusion in the air about student data privacy, and some widely quoted words about it from President Obama in his address Tuesday night didn't help (but I suspect his speechwriters were just looking for a spot to put a high-priority topic into "a simple, dramatic message about economic fairness," as the New York Times put it: "No foreign nation, no hacker should be able to … [Read more...] about ‘State of the Union’ & the student part of student privacy protection

Filed Under: Law & Policy, Literacy & Citizenship, Parenting, Privacy Tagged With: consumer privacy, cybersecurity, data privacy, digital literacy, Google, Internet safety, legislation, media literacy, online privacy, pledge, President Obama, SEL, social literacy, student privacy, White House

Two 2014 anniversaries that say reams about our kids’ futures

December 30, 2014 By Anne Leave a Comment

We don't want to let 2014 slip away without marking two anniversaries that are very important to our children: those of an invention and a convention. This year was the 25th anniversary of Tim Berners-Lee's release of his computer code creating the World Wide Web, now with some 3 billion users worldwide, and the 25th anniversary of the UN's adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child … [Read more...] about Two 2014 anniversaries that say reams about our kids’ futures

Filed Under: childrens rights, Literacy & Citizenship, Risk & Safety, Youth Tagged With: Berkman Center, children's rights, digital literacy, Digitally Connected, EU Kids Online, GoodPlay Project, media literacy, participation rights, social literacy, Sonia Livingstone, Tim Berners-Lee, UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, UNCRC, UNICEF, Urs Gasser, World Wide Web

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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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