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‘Being Ginger’: A film for anyone addressing bullying

May 15, 2014 By Anne Leave a Comment

Being Ginger film

Being Ginger is really about being human. In a fundamentally kind, sometimes humorous, amazingly un-moralistic way, director Scott Harris shows what it both feels and looks like to be dehumanized and what healing from that looks like, even as the casual cruelty he documents continues. Sometimes he asked for it while doing his filming but it's still amazing and disturbing to see how unthinkingly … [Read more...] about ‘Being Ginger’: A film for anyone addressing bullying

Filed Under: bullying, cyberbullying, empathy, Risk & Safety, video Tagged With: Being Ginger, bullying, documentaries, Parenting, redheads, Scott Harris, social-emotional learning

Social media reality check from Canadian youth: Key study

March 21, 2014 By Anne Leave a Comment

Before releasing its report on online conflict, MediaSmarts presented a much broader picture of young Canadians' experiences in social media: "Life Online." This is important context for any discussion about cyberbullying and other negative aspects of digitally informed life, whether we're setting policy at the household, school or national levels. "There are a lot of assumptions out there … [Read more...] about Social media reality check from Canadian youth: Key study

Filed Under: apps, gaming, kids, mobile, Parenting, Social Media, students, teens, tweens, videogames, Youth Tagged With: Internet safety, kids, MediaSmarts.ca, online lives, online safety, Parenting, Social Media, teens, Valerie Steeves, youth

Nothing complicated about this: Read ‘It’s Complicated’!

February 25, 2014 By Anne 3 Comments

danah boyd's book

Why is the title of social media researcher danah boyd's new book "It's Complicated"? Not just because "the social lives of networked teens" are complicated (the book's subtitle), but growing up in a networked world is too. And I'd add that it's further complicated when the adults in a teen's life don't have any idea how complicated it is – when they reduce it to "too much screen time." What's not … [Read more...] about Nothing complicated about this: Read ‘It’s Complicated’!

Filed Under: Parenting, Youth Tagged With: book review, danah boyd, growing up, It's Complicated, Parenting, Social Media, teens, youth practices

The kids who are most at risk offline (& online)

November 6, 2013 By Anne Leave a Comment

In 2009, the Internet Safety Technical Task Force published a finding that the young people most at risk online are those most at risk offline, a clear indicator to me that online risk is not a unique new problem brought on by the Internet. In their thorough review of the online risk literature released right up through that year, the researchers on our task force shared some of the offline risks … [Read more...] about The kids who are most at risk offline (& online)

Filed Under: Parenting, Research, Risk & Safety Tagged With: ChildFIRST, David Bornstein, ISTTF, Parenting, presence, resilience, risk

Neutralize the ‘negativity bias’ against kids’ Net use

October 29, 2013 By Anne 5 Comments

This post is not about technology. It's about how we (humankind) have been wiring our brains to think about technology. We have quite a hole to climb out of. Not only are our brains already "wired to scout for the bad stuff," the Huffington Post reports, referring to what neuropsychologist and author Rick Hanson calls our "negativity bias." We've been reinforcing that bias with at least 15 years … [Read more...] about Neutralize the ‘negativity bias’ against kids’ Net use

Filed Under: education technology, Parenting, Research, School & Tech Tagged With: Amanda Lenhart, education, EU Kids Online, internet research, Parenting, Pew Internet Project, Rick Hanson, Sonia Livingstone

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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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