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Speak Up survey

Fresh data on US kids’ social media use

June 9, 2014 By Anne Leave a Comment

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Young people's social media interests are changing right along with the media, according to the latest Speak Up study, which surveyed more than 325,000 students, along with parents, teachers and administrators. "Only 30% of middle school students and 39% of high school students now say they're maintaining a social networking site," says Project Tomorrow, which conducts the annual survey, "a … [Read more...] about Fresh data on US kids’ social media use

Filed Under: kids, Parenting, Research, Social Media, teens, Youth Tagged With: icanhelp, Instagram, MMOGs, Project Tomorrow, Snapchat, Speak Up survey, twitter, Vine

Students learning with digital tools in spite of school: Study

April 14, 2011 By Anne 6 Comments

It's no surprise, but it's encouraging if true: America's students are not waiting for the rest of us to "catch up to their vision for 21st-century learning," reports Project Tomorrow, which conducts the annual Speak Up survey, having surveyed 294,399 K-12 students, 42,267 parents, 37,720 teachers and librarians, and 4,969 school administrators and technology leaders in 6,541 public and private … [Read more...] about Students learning with digital tools in spite of school: Study

Filed Under: education technology, School & Tech Tagged With: digital learning tools, education technology, mobile learning, Project Tomorrow, Speak Up survey

Mobile learning’s growing momentum: Study

November 2, 2010 By Anne 7 Comments

The tide against cellphones in school – for learning, not just communication – seems to be turning. Student engagement, tight school budgets (or reasonable technology that so many students already own), and the fact that students like using their own devices are the "driving factors," according to a study by Project Tomorrow, which conducts the annual national Speak Up Survey of students, … [Read more...] about Mobile learning’s growing momentum: Study

Filed Under: School & Tech Tagged With: cellphones in the classroom, education technology, iPad, iPod Touch, mobile learning, mobile phones, Project Tomorrow, school policy, Speak Up survey

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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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