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Powerful parenting for child safety online, offline

March 11, 2022 By Anne 2 Comments

“The importance of a strong, positive relationship between a parent and child cannot be overstated. Reams of research has shown this to be true,” writes Prof. Justin Patchin of the Cyberbullying Research Center (CRC). And yet over the 20+-year-long public discussion about child online safety we’ve seen so little evidence – especially in news coverage and hearings on Capitol Hill – that all this … [Read more...] about Powerful parenting for child safety online, offline

Filed Under: Parenting, Research, Risk & Safety Tagged With: Alicia Bum-Ross, Amanda Third, Cyberbullying Research Center, Justin Patchin, Lucas Walsh, P4DF, Philippa Collin, Rosalyn Black, Sameer Hinduja, Scott Nicholson, Sonia Livingstone

A pivotal book for digital safety & citizenship

December 17, 2019 By Anne 10 Comments

Control Shift book cover

The importance of the new book – Young People in Digital Society: Control Shift – cannot be exaggerated. It provides the scholarship we adults need to make the pivot of the 21st century: away from dictating to young people and toward partnering with them as we all figure out life in this ever more digitally powered world. It’s also a wakeup call. “Control Shift” is an economical, cleverly … [Read more...] about A pivotal book for digital safety & citizenship

Filed Under: Research, Risk & Safety, Youth Tagged With: Alison Gopnik, Amanda Third, Andy Phippen, Cynthia Merrill, David Finkelhor, digital citizenship, digital safety, EU Kids Online, Global Kids Online, Lucas Walsh, Maggie Brennan, Nathan Fisk, Olivia Van Ledtje, online safety, Philippa Collin, resilience, Rosalyn Black UNCRC, Sonia Livingstone, Tijana Milosevic

Spark Change: A book taking (digital) citizenship to a new level

October 22, 2019 By Anne 8 Comments

Spark Change book cover

Olivia Van Ledtje, just now 12, tells the story of giving a talk in a western Massachusetts elementary school auditorium that was packed with students and teachers from three school communities – when she was 10. She writes that, after her talk, the students wanted to ask “loads of one-of-a-kind kid questions – the kind I can never feel fully prepared to answer. “Luckily, the one-of-a-kind … [Read more...] about Spark Change: A book taking (digital) citizenship to a new level

Filed Under: childrens rights, kids, Literacy & Citizenship, Research, School & Tech, students, Youth Tagged With: Amanda Third, Cynthia Merrill, digital citizenship, ISTE, Kate DiCamillo, Kristen Mattson, Lucas Walsh, Maori, Nathan Fisk, Olivia Van Ledtje, Philippa Collin, Rosalyn Black

Next step: Crowd-source digital citizenship

July 27, 2011 By Anne 4 Comments

I question it even as I'm preparing for talks on the subject in several countries this coming fall…. The term "digital citizenship" is heard more and more in educational and online-safety circles. The subject is now part of the International Society for Technology in Education's national educational technology standards, and ISTE is starting a National Council for its promotion. Elements of it are … [Read more...] about Next step: Crowd-source digital citizenship

Filed Under: Literacy & Citizenship Tagged With: Amanda Third, and Wellbeing, Cooperative Research Centre for Young People, David Warlick, digital citizenship, ISTE, online safety, OSTWG, Philippa Collin, technology

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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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