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What’s wrong with Net-safety ed … and what we can do about it

June 28, 2012 By Anne 1 Comment

A look at what does and doesn't work in risk prevention from top researchers in the US By Anne Collier It being "National Internet Safety Month" and this being the last week of the month, let's look at Net safety from a different angle…. "Grumpy researcher has doubts about Internet safety programs." David Finkelhor, director of the Crimes Against Children Research Center at the … [Read more...] about What’s wrong with Net-safety ed … and what we can do about it

Filed Under: Internet safety education, Risk & Safety, School & Tech Tagged With: Crimes Against Children Research Center, David Finkelhor, evaluation, Lisa Jones, National Internet Safety Month, online safety, prevention, program evaluation, risk prevention

From ‘Born This Way’ to Move This Way: A new foundation

March 2, 2012 By Anne Leave a Comment

Surrounded by some of the best thinkers and researchers in the bullying prevention, social media, and youth empowerment fields, Wednesday (2/29) I got to watch "Born This Way" become "Move This Way" for Lady Gaga, her mother, Cynthia Germanotta, and the movement they want to support and grow. "This is not a bullying prevention foundation," Gaga said, referring to the Born This Way Foundation … [Read more...] about From ‘Born This Way’ to Move This Way: A new foundation

Filed Under: childrens rights, Literacy & Citizenship, Risk & Safety, Social Media, social norms, students, teens, Youth Tagged With: Berkman Center, Born This Way, bullying, bullying prevention, cyberbullying prevention, Harvard Law School, Lady Gaga, Move This Way, risk prevention

Will the global village have a ‘911’?

December 13, 2011 By Anne 7 Comments

This is an important next step for suicide prevention as well as social media. Facebook and the US's National Suicide Prevention Lifeline have just announced a partnership that links Facebook users expressing suicidal thoughts directly to live chat with a crisis counselor at the Lifeline. Before, and like other social-media services, Facebook would just send the distressed user the Lifeline's … [Read more...] about Will the global village have a ‘911’?

Filed Under: Risk & Safety, Social Media Tagged With: 911, crisis intervention, Facebook, first response, helpline, hotline, National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, risk prevention, Social Media, suicidal crisis

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SocialMediaHelpline.com – helping
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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
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
Future of Privacy Forum
The research of Global Kids Online
The Good Project at Harvard's School of Education
Prof. Henry Jenkins's blog
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
National Association for Media Literacy Education
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
TheseLittleWaves.net, site of Galit Breen, author of Kindness Wins
"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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