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An app for teens that promotes (& gets) positivity

December 19, 2014 By Anne 2 Comments

Last spring I asked, "Will safety ever be baked in to social apps?" Well, it's actually starting to be. Let is a perfect example. A social app (mostly on Apple's iOS phones) with an overwhelmingly teen-aged user base that launched last March, its L.A.- and Marseilles-based creators seem to have grown a digital community in which teens and young adults, mostly girls, feel safe and help each other … [Read more...] about An app for teens that promotes (& gets) positivity

Filed Under: apps, empathy, mobile, Risk & Safety, Social Media, social networking, social norms, Youth Tagged With: apps, Calvin Liu, iOS, Let, mobile phones, mobile platform, Outpour, Pascal Lorne, pro-social media companies

Mobile rules in the US now too

September 23, 2014 By Anne Leave a Comment

Vintage phones

It's now clear that, where Americans' use of digital media is concerned, mobile rules. "The days of desktop dominance are over," declares top digital market researcher comScore in its latest mobile app report. Smartphones and tablets represent 60% of Americans' digital media time, and "the fuel driving mobile’s relentless growth is primarily app usage, which alone makes up a majority of total … [Read more...] about Mobile rules in the US now too

Filed Under: mobile, Research, texting Tagged With: apps, cellphones, comScore, GSMA, mobile market research, mobile phones, Nielsen, Pew, PewGlobal, Social Media

New from ConnectSafely: ‘A Parents’ Guide to Mobile Phones’

June 19, 2014 By Anne 1 Comment

It's hard to know exactly how many kids and teens have mobile phones right now, but we do know that over a year ago more than a third (37%) of US 12-to-17-year-olds had smartphones, up from 23% in 2011, and a whopping 78% had some kind of mobile phone. That's from the Pew Internet Project, one of the best US sources on youth and tech. We also know that mobile phones are how young people access … [Read more...] about New from ConnectSafely: ‘A Parents’ Guide to Mobile Phones’

Filed Under: child development, empathy, mobile, Parenting, Risk & Safety, Social Media, texting Tagged With: ATT, cellphones, ConnectSafely, CTIA, first phone, kids, mobile guide, mobile phones, parents guide, parents guide to mobile, smartphones, Sprint, T-Mobile, teens, Verizon Wireless

Apple’s newest smartphone ‘parental control’

June 5, 2014 By Anne Leave a Comment

Apple unveiled a whole slew of features coming in the next iterations of its operating systems for the iPhone (iOS 8) and Macs (OS X Yosemite), coming to a device near you in the fall. Among them was an iOS 8 feature called "Family Sharing," a little bundle of convenience and control. The feature will "let up to six users share any apps or media content they buy using the same credit card. … [Read more...] about Apple’s newest smartphone ‘parental control’

Filed Under: Parenting, Risk & Safety Tagged With: Apple, Family Sharing, iOS 8, mobile phones, OS X Yosemite, parental controls, smartphones

‘The gold’ of connected learning, innovation worldwide: The learners

March 17, 2014 By Anne Leave a Comment

You know that maxim that "necessity is the mother invention" (it goes back at least to 16th-century England, according to Phrases.co.uk). Well, South African journalist Tony Shapshak recently showed in a TED Talk in Edinburgh how necessity is the mother of (tech) innovation, and that innovation is certainly not just happening in Silicon Valley, Bangalore, or the Zhongguancun part of Beijing, but … [Read more...] about ‘The gold’ of connected learning, innovation worldwide: The learners

Filed Under: mobile, School & Tech, students, Youth Tagged With: Kenya, M-Pesa, mobile phones, South Africa, TED Talk, Tony Shapshak

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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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