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Stephen Carrick-Davies

Learning from, working with at-risk youth

August 17, 2012 By Anne Leave a Comment

A lot of great work on social media and at-risk youth has been done in the UK by Internet-safety consultant Stephen Carrick-Davies, and here's an important takeaway from his latest work: Educators and other professionals who work with marginalized young people need to understand and use social media – the social and communications tools of their everyday lives. In the UK, some of that work … [Read more...] about Learning from, working with at-risk youth

Filed Under: at-risk teens, Research, Risk & Safety, teens, Youth Tagged With: at-risk teens, education technology, PRUs, school policy, Social Media, special ed, Stephen Carrick-Davies, students, vulnerable youth

The wisdom of Finn, 10

January 3, 2012 By Anne Leave a Comment

"The most imaginative" of Stephen and Fi's three kids "in trying to invent reasons to go online," Finn suddenly proposed a day a week of family "NST" (non-screen time) because, he thoughtfully proposed, "it would make us more imaginative as a family," Stephen writes in The Guardian. They considered this together, as a family, because they'd been consciously trying to find the right balance of tech … [Read more...] about The wisdom of Finn, 10

Filed Under: Social Media Tagged With: Blaise Pascal, Christopher Ferguson, digital devices, digital media, distraction, networked world, Parenting, Pico Iyer, screen time, Social Media, Stephen Carrick-Davies

Important new resource for online risk prevention

July 5, 2011 By Anne 2 Comments

Levels of Prevention

A third major mile marker in our collective (global) understanding of how to mitigate youth online risk just fell into place: "Munch, Poke, Ping: Vulnerable Young People, Social Media and E-Safety," a brand-new report to Britain's Training & Development Agency (TDA), the agency responsible for the training and development of that country's school workforce, including counselors and social … [Read more...] about Important new resource for online risk prevention

Filed Under: Risk & Safety Tagged With: at-risk youth, Levels of Prevention, Munch Poke Ping report, school counselors, school social workers, Stephen Carrick-Davies

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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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