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‘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

Digital summer camp Part 2: Of managing a child’s Minecraft time

June 4, 2014 By Anne Leave a Comment

Minecraft screenshot

"I'm sad that my son is so busy with homework and other stuff lately that he hasn't had time to even play Minecraft! I think it's a better use of his time than homework." That's a comment from a mom and educator in San Jose, Calif., posted under an article by educator Kevin Jarrett in Edutopia last fall: "Too much is never enough: managing a child's time playing Minecraft." Because he ran an … [Read more...] about Digital summer camp Part 2: Of managing a child’s Minecraft time

Filed Under: child development, gaming, kids, Parenting, play, School & Tech, Social Media, virtual worlds, Youth Tagged With: Edutopia, Kevin Jarrett, Marianne Malmstrom, MineCraft, Stuart Brown

The 7 properties of safety in a digital age

March 27, 2012 By Anne 6 Comments

Inside a student's house in Minecraft

In Part 1 of this series, I pointed you to a recent talk by John Seely Brown on the whitewater-kayaking kind of learning we need today and in Part 2, examples of that in Marianne Malmstrom's New Jersey classroom. Both touch on "safety" in and for the learning process. Here, Part 3: zooming in on how they and other wise educators have clarified my view of child safety today. What safety is … [Read more...] about The 7 properties of safety in a digital age

Filed Under: education technology, Literacy & Citizenship, Risk & Safety, Social Media Tagged With: Chip Heath, Dan Heath, digital age, Hanging Out, Internet safety, John Seely Brown, Katie Salen, LEGO, Marianne Malmstrom, Mark Healey, MineCraft, networked world, online safety, Social Media, Stuart Brown

The power of play: Cyberbullying solution?

July 9, 2009 By Anne 10 Comments

Polar bear & huskie

Stuart Brown, founder and director of the National Institute for Play in Carmel, Calif., tells the story of what happened between a hungry, 1,200-pound polar bear and a husky tied up at a camp near Hudson Bay, late one October day. The bear approached the group of dogs with his eyes fixed in a predatory stare. Amazingly, one of the huskies greets him in a "play bow," wagging her tail. Dr. Brown, a … [Read more...] about The power of play: Cyberbullying solution?

Filed Under: kids, play, Social Media, videogames, Youth Tagged With: kaBOOM, National Institute for Play, play deficit, Stuart Brown

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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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