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iCanHelpline launched!

August 17, 2015 By Anne Leave a Comment

I'm thrilled to tell you that, after a successful crowdfunding campaign and with support from a number of social media companies and the Digital Trust Foundation, iCanHelpline.org, launched today. A joint project of Net Family News and #iCANHELP, it's the California pilot for a national social media "helpdesk" for schools. Though there are Internet helplines in many countries, none are just for … [Read more...] about iCanHelpline launched!

Filed Under: Risk & Safety, School & Tech, school policy Tagged With: Crash Override Network, cyberbullying, districts, Heartmob, icanhelp, iCanHelpline, Internet safety, POSH, revenge porn hotline, schools, sexting, Social Media Helpline

Help us build & pilot a Social Media Helpline for schools!

May 12, 2015 By Anne 1 Comment

Hey, everybody! We at NetFamilyNews and iCANHELP would greatly appreciate your help in spreading the word about (and if possible contributing to) our just-launched crowd funding campaign at Indiegogo. We're in the process of creating a hotline schools can call for help with problems in social media which we'll pilot this coming school year in California. Please click to our page here. We'll … [Read more...] about Help us build & pilot a Social Media Helpline for schools!

Filed Under: Risk & Safety, School & Tech, Social Media, Youth Tagged With: cyberbullying, helpline, Internet safety, reputation, schools, sexting, Social Media Helpline

Of student digital privacy & schools demanding passwords

January 28, 2015 By Anne 1 Comment

For Data Privacy Day (1/28), let's take a look at students' data privacy – as in the data on their cellphones and whether school administrators have the right to search the devices. The ACLU says they don't. It called out a school board in Tennessee for violating the constitutional rights of students by implementing a policy that allows school officials to search digital devices kids bring to … [Read more...] about Of student digital privacy & schools demanding passwords

Filed Under: Parenting, passwords, Privacy, School & Tech Tagged With: ACLU, CDT, Data Privacy Day, Illinois law, Justin Patchin, Nancy Willard, Parenting, parents, passwords, schools, students

Our kids’ privacy & a White House report on ‘big data’

May 16, 2014 By Anne Leave a Comment

Referring to a new report from the White House that she contributed to, social media scholar danah boyd points out how impossibly simplistic it is to view "big data" as either all good or all bad. I'm thankful for the balance it struck in its findings on big data in education between the tremendous opportunities it represents for students and educators and the risks to student privacy. It … [Read more...] about Our kids’ privacy & a White House report on ‘big data’

Filed Under: Privacy, School & Tech, school policy, Social Media, Youth Tagged With: big data, Big Data: Seizing Opportunities, COPPA, danah boyd, FERPA, Preserving Values, Privacy, schools, student privacy, White House

New state anti-bullying law challenges schools

September 2, 2011 By Anne Leave a Comment

The New Jersey anti-bullying law passed after the suicide death of Tyler Clementi went into effect this week and is "considered the toughest legislation against bullying in the nation," the New York Times reports. This is good news for New Jersey parents of targeted students who have found schools unresponsive but apparently tough news for schools. School officials worry that the legal requirement … [Read more...] about New state anti-bullying law challenges schools

Filed Under: bullying, cyberbullying, Risk & Safety Tagged With: bullying, cyberbullying, New Jersey, school policy, schools, state laws, Tyler Clementi

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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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