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For our kids & ourselves: Presence in a digital age

July 25, 2014 By Anne Leave a Comment

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Presence has never been harder or more needed – in this age of hyper transparency, connection, opinion and information, all in a media environment that's networked, so that "speed of delivery" is a calculation of the past (it's all just here already). Presence is needed by adults as much as children. It means different things to different people, including "attentiveness," "focus," and … [Read more...] about For our kids & ourselves: Presence in a digital age

Filed Under: child development, empathy, kids, Parenting, self-harm, Social Media, teens, Youth Tagged With: attention, Catherine Steiner-Adair, danah boyd, Kellie Edwards, mindfulness, presence, Robert Epstein

The anti-EDIs social norm: A counterargument

July 10, 2014 By Anne Leave a Comment

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They're more like DEDIs (digitally enabled displays of insensitivity) than EDIs (electronic displays of insensitivity), because the behavior is human not electronic. But that's beside the point. This NPR commentary suggests that EDIs are becoming a social norm. It cites an unscientific survey of 2,000 newsletter subscribers as finding that this insensitive behavior – people checking their phones … [Read more...] about The anti-EDIs social norm: A counterargument

Filed Under: Ethics & Etiquette, social influencing, Social Media, social norms Tagged With: cellphones, digital rudeness, EDIs, manners, presence, smartphones

An 18-year-old’s exploration of ‘Internet addiction’ in video

May 14, 2014 By Anne Leave a Comment

Eoin Corbett

In a series of man-on-the-street interviews, one young woman's answer to the question, "Do you think you're addicted to the Internet?" was: "Yes…. Twitter. I can't get off of it." Another responded, "I love creeping on Facebook. I never post; I'm just always creeping, creeping, creeping [also called "lurking," looking at people's comments, likes, photos, etc.]." A third said, "I just run to the … [Read more...] about An 18-year-old’s exploration of ‘Internet addiction’ in video

Filed Under: addiction, Risk & Safety, Social Media, Youth Tagged With: CyberPsychology Research Center, digital sabbath, Dr. Ciaran McMahon, Eoin Corbett, experiential learning, Facebook, Internet addiction, presence, Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin, self-awareness, Social Media, twitter, unplugging

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

Cellphones in cars

March 18, 2009 By Anne Leave a Comment

This is definitely good fuel for family discussion - why the National Safety Council recently "called for a nationwide ban on the use of cellphones while driving, citing overwhelming evidence of the risk of injuries and death from driver distraction," as reported in a commentary at the Christian Science Monitor. Or why California "banned texting behind the wheel and, along with several other … [Read more...] about Cellphones in cars

Filed Under: mobile, Social Media Tagged With: presence

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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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