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The new, revised COPPA

December 20, 2012 By Anne 2 Comments

The US Federal Trade Commission's revisions to the COPPA Rule announced today (12/19/12), are aimed at syncing up a rule mandated by a 1998 law with today's technology and with "the way children use the Internet, mobile devices and social networking," the FTC says in its press release. For example, the personal information that services cannot collect from children under 13 without parental … [Read more...] about The new, revised COPPA

Filed Under: geolocation, Law & Policy, Literacy & Citizenship, mobile, Privacy, Social Media Tagged With: children's online privacy, consumer privacy, COPPA, FTC, New Media, privacy law, regulation

Teachers’ views on how tech’s changing students: Studies

November 12, 2012 By Anne 2 Comments

For a new report, the Pew Internet Project surveyed and held focus groups with more than 2,000 middle and high school teachers in the Advanced Placement (AP) and National Writing Project (NWP) communities and found that 77% feel "the Internet and digital search tools have had a 'mostly positive' impact on their students’ research habits, but 87% say these technologies are creating an 'easily … [Read more...] about Teachers’ views on how tech’s changing students: Studies

Filed Under: School & Tech, Social Media, students Tagged With: children, Common Sense Media, digital media, educators, New Media, Pew Internet, students, teachers

12-year-old New Zealander’s mixed-media publishing business

October 16, 2012 By Anne 2 Comments

I'm a long-time fan of Marie Forleo and other 21st-century media moguls and gurus, interested as I am in how people of all ages make (and make a living with) media in a digital age. So I've been following Marie's story and noticed an interesting plot twist this week. In her MarieTV video, she says she's been hearing from more and more parents who are sharing her messages of self-love and … [Read more...] about 12-year-old New Zealander’s mixed-media publishing business

Filed Under: Literacy & Citizenship, Social Media, teens, Youth Tagged With: change agents, digital media, Marie Forleo, New Media, self-publishing, social change, Social Media, young entrepreneurs, youth

So we’re all becoming cyborgs, Dr. Turkle?

April 23, 2012 By Anne 3 Comments

"We want to customize our lives…," "It is as though we have all put ourselves on cable news…," "We seem willing to dispense with [other] people altogether…." All these dire, dour, disrespectful pronouncements about this undifferentiated mass called "we" from highly respected psychologist Sherry Turkle at MIT in the New York Times. Where is her acknowledgment that the way we use all the devices, … [Read more...] about So we’re all becoming cyborgs, Dr. Turkle?

Filed Under: Ethics & Etiquette, media shift, mobile, Social Media Tagged With: disconnecting, media shift, New Media, Sherry Turkle, Social Media, social norms

Education’s job in a networked world

October 17, 2011 By Anne 2 Comments

I can't presume to know education's main job in today's very different media environment, but I think Prof. Michael Wesch at Kansas State University is on to something. It goes beyond teaching media literacy in information-saturated lives, which itself is well past the 19th-century model of filling students' heads with information and having them "learn" it. It even goes beyond teaching the … [Read more...] about Education’s job in a networked world

Filed Under: Literacy & Citizenship, School & Tech Tagged With: digital ethnography, education, education reform, education technology, Michael Wesch, New Media, Social Media, Visions of Students

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SocialMediaHelpline.com – helping
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CASEL.org & its 5 core social-emotional competencies
Center for Innovative Public Health Research
Childnet International
Committee for Children
Congressional Internet Caucus Academy
ConnectSafely.org
Crimes Against Children Research Center
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Cyber Civil Rights Initiative's Revenge Porn Crisis Helpline
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danah boyd's blog and book
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Free Range Kids
FOSI's Good Digital Parenting
Future of Privacy Forum
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The Good Project at Harvard's School of Education
Prof. Henry Jenkins's blog
Center for Democracy & Technology
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
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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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