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Our children’s digital dossiers

October 25, 2010 By Anne 4 Comments

New parents probably don't think of baby blogs and online photo albums as part of their children's digital dossiers or footprints, but that's what they are. The computer security company AVG recently surveyed parents with Internet access and children under age two in 10 countries (Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Spain, the UK, and the US), asking them "when they … [Read more...] about Our children’s digital dossiers

Filed Under: digital footprint, Literacy & Citizenship, reputation, Risk & Safety, Social Media Tagged With: AVG, baby photos, digital dossier, digital footprint, family photos, new media literacy, online reputation, reputation management, Social Media

Learning by doing: Safe social media for grade school

October 19, 2010 By Anne 2 Comments

Citizenship – both digital and the traditional kind – is a verb. It takes practice. So, as you may have heard us ConnectSafely.org folk say, social media need to be in the classroom so students can practice digital citizenship just as for generations they (hopefully still) have opportunities to practice citizenship at school. So I'm thrilled to tell you about a free package of safe social network … [Read more...] about Learning by doing: Safe social media for grade school

Filed Under: Literacy & Citizenship, Social Media, social networking Tagged With: digital citizenship, education technology, elementary school, media literacy, new media literacy, Radiowaves, Safe, Social Media, social networking

Facebook fundamental (& what it says of media literacy)

September 27, 2010 By Anne 2 Comments

Longtime technology journalist David Kirkpatrick – author of the recently published book, The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World – caught an interview that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave CNBC last spring. What Zuckerberg said in that interview, Kirkpatrick wrote, was "among the most revealing things he has ever said about how he views his enterprise … [Read more...] about Facebook fundamental (& what it says of media literacy)

Filed Under: Literacy & Citizenship Tagged With: David Kirkpatrick, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, New Media Literacies, new media literacy, The Social Network

A smart dad on teaching daughter media lit

September 7, 2010 By Anne Leave a Comment

Tshaka Armstrong, the dad behind a southern California tech-parenting help business called DigitalShepherds.com, clearly has put a lot of thought into teaching his daughter traditional media literacy in a very current way (I say "current" because it's media lit customized as you go – based on his daughter's current celebrity favorites – and "traditional" because it's critical thinking focused more … [Read more...] about A smart dad on teaching daughter media lit

Filed Under: Literacy & Citizenship Tagged With: new media literacy, pop culture, sexualized culture

Teachers, ‘digital natives’ need you!

August 2, 2010 By Anne 1 Comment

"To all those teachers worried about being made obsolete by digital natives, rest easy. You have a LOT to teach them," blogs computing education professor Mark Guzdial at Georgia Institute of Technology. Hear, hear! He's picking up on New York Times coverage of a new study out of Northwestern University finding that "digital natives" are so not digital media literate. Not too surprisingly to many … [Read more...] about Teachers, ‘digital natives’ need you!

Filed Under: Literacy & Citizenship, Social Media Tagged With: digital natives, Mark Guzdial, media literacy, new media literacy

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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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