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Youth cybersecurity concerns & what will reduce them: Research

October 10, 2016 By Anne Leave a Comment

This being National Cyber Security Awareness Month, we might ask how secure young people are feeling online. According to two just-released studies, not so much. But there's some light in there, so stay with me. A Microsoft survey of 13-17 year-olds in 14 countries found that 43% had experienced unwelcome contact at some point. The study also surveyed adults and found that 58% of young people … [Read more...] about Youth cybersecurity concerns & what will reduce them: Research

Filed Under: cyberbullying, identity theft, Literacy & Citizenship, Research, Risk & Safety, Security, sexting, Social Media, Youth Tagged With: CASEL, cybersecurity, digital literacy, media literacy, Media Literacy Now, Microsoft, National Cyber Security Alliance, SEL, social literacy

Parenting & the mobile app ratings in the works

January 10, 2012 By Anne Leave a Comment

As mobile apps multiply like rabbits and the number of kids downloading and playing with them seems to keep growing, the usefulness of app ratings to parents seems to be growing too. CTIA – the mobile phone industry trade association – gets this. It recently announced an app rating system it has been working on since 2010, Investors.com reports. The system, which CTIA worked on with the … [Read more...] about Parenting & the mobile app ratings in the works

Filed Under: Filtering, monitoring, etc., mobile, Risk & Safety, Social Media Tagged With: Android, Apple, ATYT, cellphone apps, CTIA, ESRB, Google, Microsoft, mobile apps, rating system, Sprint, T-Mobile, US Cellular, Verizon Wireless

Microsoft’s ‘So.cl’ networking for students

December 28, 2011 By Anne Leave a Comment

Back in 2008, the researchers of the MacArthur Foundation-funded Digital Youth Project reported that there are two kinds of social networking: the friendship-driven kind we're all very familiar with and interest-driven. The latter kind is self-explanatory too, but worth zooming in on. Because it's not only online socializing around interests (as in a writer's community, the Harry Potter Alliance, … [Read more...] about Microsoft’s ‘So.cl’ networking for students

Filed Under: education technology, School & Tech, Social Media Tagged With: Digital Youth Project, education technology, interest-driven, Microsoft, So.cl, Social Media, social networking

Europe’s new coalition for a better Net for kids

December 2, 2011 By Anne 1 Comment

European children "now start going online when they are seven, and 38% of 9-to-12-year-olds who are online say they have a social networking profile, in spite of age restrictions," the European Commission reports. So it has formed "a new Coalition to make a better and safer internet for children" as part of its Digital Agenda for Europe, the Commission announced this week. The coalition's 28 … [Read more...] about Europe’s new coalition for a better Net for kids

Filed Under: Law & Policy, Risk & Safety Tagged With: Apple, Coalition to make a better and safer internet for children, European Commission, Facebook, Google, Internet safety in Europe, Microsoft, Nokia, online safety, Orange, safe social networking, Samsung, Sulake, Vodafone

Anti-social media companies will be obsolete

December 1, 2011 By Anne 6 Comments

There's anti-social behavior at the corporate level, too – especially now, in the age of increasingly social digital media. I mentioned this in my last post, but – since these (media) environmental conditions are new to all of us, including parents – maybe it would help to take a closer look.... We've always known that social behaviors and norms are expressed collectively by organizations as … [Read more...] about Anti-social media companies will be obsolete

Filed Under: Law & Policy, Literacy & Citizenship, Privacy, Risk & Safety, Social Media Tagged With: Facebook, Google, Microsoft, participatory media, Social Media, twitter

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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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