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Game-changing insights on bullying from a top US researcher

June 20, 2017 By Anne 1 Comment

Chart about criteria for healthy families, schools

If we want schools to be safe for all kids, we cannot ignore the direct connections between bullying, sexual harassment and homophobic name-calling in middle school. That's according to groundbreaking research presented by University of Florida psychology professor Dorothy Espelage in her latest talk. One of the U.S.'s leading bullying researchers, she was speaking in Washington at the American … [Read more...] about Game-changing insights on bullying from a top US researcher

Filed Under: bullying, cyberbullying, Research, Risk & Safety, Youth Tagged With: American Psychological Association, APA, bullying, cyberbullying, Dorothy Espelage, GLSEN, research, school climate, SEL, social-emotional learning

Teachers on tech in US classrooms: Study

March 8, 2013 By Anne Leave a Comment

A recent survey by the Pew Internet Project shows how pervasive technology has become in American classrooms. "Laptops and desktops are central, but … mobile technology use has also become commonplace in the learning process," the Pew researchers write, adding that the 2,462 teachers surveyed feel "digital technologies have helped them in teaching their middle school and high school students in … [Read more...] about Teachers on tech in US classrooms: Study

Filed Under: education technology, Research, School & Tech Tagged With: education technology, Pew Internet Project, research, school, students, teachers

What we know & don’t know about kids’ online socializing: Key study

January 28, 2013 By Anne 4 Comments

Cooney Center's little robot graphic

Imagine a game in which a child not only discovers, collects, creates, and/or customizes 2- and 3-dimensional art objects that s/he then shares with fellow player-creators, but also creates his/her own levels of play. Imagine the literacies players could be developing in the process of playing such a game, including social literacy, through sharing, "liking," and reviewing each other's … [Read more...] about What we know & don’t know about kids’ online socializing: Key study

Filed Under: Research, School & Tech Tagged With: children, Cisco's Networking Academy, Club Penguin, Deborah Fields, Joan Ganz Cooney Center, LittleBigPlanet, research, Sara Grimes, Scratch, Social Media, social media research, U13s, Whyville

Study on long-neglected factor in Net safety: Resilience

January 22, 2013 By Anne 6 Comments

As a society, we've been talking about youth online risk for years, but we've only just begun to talk about young people's resilience, which is what helps them keep risk from turning into harm. It's important to know, as the authors of an important new report note, that resilience – the ability to deal with negative experiences without being upset by them – doesn't come from avoiding risk, online … [Read more...] about Study on long-neglected factor in Net safety: Resilience

Filed Under: Parenting, Research, Risk & Safety Tagged With: e-safety, EU Kids Online, Internet safety, online safety, research, resilience, youth online risk

A teacher’s view of teacher surveys about youth & tech

November 14, 2012 By Anne Leave a Comment

Monday's post was about two surveys of US teachers about what technology's doing to students' academic performance. Today, a guest commentary from Marianne Malmstrom, who teaches grades 3-8 at the Elisabeth Morrow School in Englewood, N.J., after I asked her what she thought of the research and the New York Times's coverage: "At least the New York Times and Pew stated several times the findings … [Read more...] about A teacher’s view of teacher surveys about youth & tech

Filed Under: education technology, Research, School & Tech Tagged With: education reform, educational technology, innovation, research, school policy, school tech, teachers, youth

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Control Shift: a pivotal book for Internet safety
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Cyberwise.org
danah boyd's blog and book about networked youth
Disconnected, Carrie James's book on digital ethics
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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
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Let Grow Foundation
Making Caring Common
Raising Digital Natives, author Devorah Heitner's site
Renee Hobbs at the Media Education Lab
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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)
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"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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