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Digital citizenship the ‘killer app’: How

November 15, 2010 By Anne 10 Comments

Elaborating on my comments last week at the annual Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI) conference in Washington, D.C. (11/10/10).... Digital citizenship is the killer app of online safety – if (big if) we don't complicate it too much. A big if because those of us who did not grow up in the current media environment (the ones who create terms like this and implement programs around them) tend … [Read more...] about Digital citizenship the ‘killer app’: How

Filed Under: Literacy & Citizenship Tagged With: agency, ASI Mexico, Cable in the Classroom, Childnet, citizenship, digital citizenship, efficacy, FOSI, Netsafe, online safety, Pew Internet, youth online

Check out our new ‘Parents’ Guide to Facebook’!

November 8, 2010 By Anne 1 Comment

We ConnectSafely folk are pleased (and excited) to tell you about our new little Facebook guide for parents, educators, and everybody looking for the basics on the world's most popular social networking site – what it is, why young people use it, how to turn it into a great parenting tool, and how to optimize its privacy settings for teens. I started NetFamilyNews 11 years ago on the premise that … [Read more...] about Check out our new ‘Parents’ Guide to Facebook’!

Filed Under: Literacy & Citizenship, Parenting, Privacy, Social Media, social networking Tagged With: A Parents' Guide to Facebook, ConnectSafely, digital footprint, Facebook, online safety, Parenting, parents guide, Privacy, privacy settings, reputation, Social Media, social networking

Two milestone Facebook products

October 7, 2010 By Anne 1 Comment

Facebook announced two significant new products today (Oct. 6) – not the privacy-feature tweaks and redesigns users have become accustomed to and not like Places, which had us all scrambling to work out the privacy and safety implications (here's what I blogged about on that). Your data download The first pushes right past Facebook's claim that you own the content you put in the site to … [Read more...] about Two milestone Facebook products

Filed Under: Literacy & Citizenship, Privacy, Social Media, social networking Tagged With: content, data, data download, Facebook, Groups, Mark Zuckerberg, online safety, Places, privacy controls, privacy features, social networking

Tech-enabled dating abuse

September 28, 2010 By Anne 2 Comments

If your kid's like mine (and has a cellphone), s/he is getting text messages all the time. What you might want to check on with him or her is whether it's all the time from one person. If it is, there could be some good reasons for this seemingly obsessive or stalking behavior – maybe the child needs help, a confidant for a few days. Another possibility is what blogger April Peveteaux at cafemom … [Read more...] about Tech-enabled dating abuse

Filed Under: Risk & Safety, Social Media Tagged With: cellphones, Dating Abuse, dating violence, online safety, Skyping, Social Media, social networking, texting

Why digital citizenship’s a hot topic

September 23, 2010 By Anne 21 Comments

Digital citizenship keeps coming up in more and more places.... It just came up at the Social Good Summit in New York this week I just co-moderated a multinational panel on it at the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Vilnius, Lithuania, last week The European Schoolnet and the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) just announced a new category for Europe's eLearning … [Read more...] about Why digital citizenship’s a hot topic

Filed Under: Literacy & Citizenship, Risk & Safety, Social Media Tagged With: Childnet, ConnectSafely, digital citizenship, digital media, Internet Governance Forum, Internet safety, Netsafe, online safety, Schoolnet, Social Good Summit, Social Media, youth agency

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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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