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Mining Minecraft, Part 1: Little gamers’ digital play through a teacher’s eyes

December 12, 2012 By Anne 16 Comments

Minecraft castle by a 5th-grader

Editor's note: This week, my holiday gift to you, dear readers. Below you'll find Part 1 of a three-part series of guest posts by teacher Marianne Malmstrom about what students learning in digital environments can teach all of us – parents, educators, risk prevention experts, and anybody else who works with young people. Editing this series felt like a gift to me, and it'll keep on giving, because … [Read more...] about Mining Minecraft, Part 1: Little gamers’ digital play through a teacher’s eyes

Filed Under: education technology, Literacy & Citizenship, Parenting, School & Tech, Social Media, students Tagged With: digital environments, digital learning, education technology, Elisabeth Morrow School, Marianne Malmstrom, MineCraft, MOGs, multiplayer games, online games, virtual worlds

Powerful play: A mom & son in World of Warcraft

January 13, 2012 By Anne 6 Comments

I met Malinda at an educators' conference several years ago and, over dinner, so enjoyed hearing the story you're about to read. I later got to meet and dine with both Malinda and her son Dillon and wish you could enjoy that too. Recently I asked her if she'd be willing to tell of this experience in NetFamilyNews, because I wanted fellow parents to know that this kind of long-distance camaraderie … [Read more...] about Powerful play: A mom & son in World of Warcraft

Filed Under: gaming, homeschooling, Parenting, School & Tech, Social Media, videogames Tagged With: education technology, family, gaming, homeschooling, multiplayer games, online games, Parenting, videogames, World of Warcraft

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IMPORTANT RESOURCES

SocialMediaHelpline.com – helping
U.S. schools delete cyberbullying

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
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
Future of Privacy Forum
The research of Global Kids Online
The Good Project at Harvard's School of Education
Prof. Henry Jenkins's blog
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
National Association for Media Literacy Education
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
TheseLittleWaves.net, site of Galit Breen, author of Kindness Wins
"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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