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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

‘Playful by Design,’ a landmark report

December 13, 2021 By Anne 1 Comment

Research in the report

What better subject to zoom in on during the holiday season than play? I've written a lot on the subject, here, through the years but, in a way, this is Part 4 of a series I started in 2009 (here are the 2nd and 3rd parts). So now, at the turn of a new year, it’s not only a perfect time but high time to come back to the power of play. Happy holidays to all who celebrate them, happiness to those … [Read more...] about ‘Playful by Design,’ a landmark report

Filed Under: childrens rights, Parenting, play, Research, Risk & Safety, Youth Tagged With: Connected Camps, Digital Futures Commission, Fortnite, gaming, Kruakae Pothong, Marianne Malmstrom, MineCraft, Nintendo, RingFit, Roblox, Scott Nicholson, Sonia Livingstone, Stuart Brown, TikTok, videogames, WhatsApp, Wii, YouTube, Zoom

Why not a gazillion ‘likes’?: Getting wise to gamification in social media (& life)

May 16, 2013 By Anne 4 Comments

Sameer Hinduja

Likes in Facebook and Instagram, +1's in Google+, (potentially) "HISCORE(s)" in Snapchat are fun to get (though there isn't much evidence having a HISCORE is a big deal for Snapchat users yet). They're a great example of gamification, a word that's increasingly heard in pop culture as much as education. There's nothing wrong with liking likes and other gamification forms (more on this in minute). … [Read more...] about Why not a gazillion ‘likes’?: Getting wise to gamification in social media (& life)

Filed Under: Literacy & Citizenship, Parenting, Research, Social Media Tagged With: +1, Daniel Pink, Facebook, gamification, Instagram, Jane McGonigal, likes, meaningful gamification, Sameer Hinduja, Scott Nicholson, Snapchat

One mom’s cellphone contract for her son

January 9, 2013 By Anne 2 Comments

When I first read Janell Hoffman's 18-point contract for her 13-year-old son Greg's cellphone use, I was a little put off. So it really helped to watch Good Morning America's video story about it. Why? Because GMA gave it a light touch, and reporter Akiko Fujita pointed out afterwards that "a lot of this was done in jest." That helped because this was very public parenting, and – if this national … [Read more...] about One mom’s cellphone contract for her son

Filed Under: mobile, Parenting, Social Media Tagged With: cellphone, family policy, Greg Hoffman, iPhone, Janell Hoffman, Lynn Schofield Clark, mobile technology, rules, Scott Nicholson, tech rules

What Net safety can learn from digital game design

June 24, 2012 By Anne 6 Comments

Internet-safety experts should talk with game designers. Last week was for me a three-day-long, powerful confirmation that we need to de-silo the public discussion about young people's well-being online and offline. I attended the GLS (for Games+Learning+Society) conference at the University of Wisconsin and absorbed a lot of wisdom about learning in digital games and worlds. One key lesson … [Read more...] about What Net safety can learn from digital game design

Filed Under: gaming, Risk & Safety, Social Media, videogames Tagged With: digital games, digital media, education technology, game design, game studies, GLS, media scholars, Scott Nicholson, Sebastian Deterding, Social Media, videogames

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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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