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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

Youth Voices & Outer Voices: 2 fine participatory media projects

March 12, 2014 By Anne Leave a Comment

DML 2014 conference logo

Two youth-serving, youth-participating projects were the highlights of last week's Digital Media & Learning Conference (#DML2014) for me: Youth Voices, by educators, for students and educators, and the Outer Voices Podcast, a student-guided digital radio program. There are never enough young people participating in conferences about media and education, youth risk and wellness or safety, … [Read more...] about Youth Voices & Outer Voices: 2 fine participatory media projects

Filed Under: Literacy & Citizenship, reputation, Research, Social Media, Youth Tagged With: #dml2014, Digital Media and Learning, DML, EDDA, Internet safety, Lisa Rothbard, National Writing Project, online reputation, Outer Voices Podcast, Paul Allison, students, teachers, youth participation, Youth Voices

Students developing apps (and businesses) on the side

December 11, 2013 By Anne Leave a Comment

There's the app for cats. Yes, true – not feline iPhone users, but cats who play (i.e., all cats). The Guardian's feature on young app creators leads with Oxford physics student Owen Beckett's Cat Snaps, "a laser chasing game for cats [that] includes a function that takes a photo of your cat when it 'wins' the game." Beckett says he didn't know how to write code or make an app, but he watched … [Read more...] about Students developing apps (and businesses) on the side

Filed Under: apps, School & Tech, Social Media, students, Youth Tagged With: app developers, apps, mobile technology, students

A Connecticut school to its students: ‘We trust you’

October 15, 2013 By Anne Leave a Comment

Pure inspiration – both the message in the video and the wonderful student (and staff) faces and voices in all their diversity. To see what I mean, take a 2-minute break and go to this page at Mind/Shift, scroll down to the embedded YouTube video, and start at 1:55 into the video from New Canaan High School. Imagine what school would be like and what could happen – for learning, student … [Read more...] about A Connecticut school to its students: ‘We trust you’

Filed Under: Literacy & Citizenship, School & Tech, school policy, Social Media, students Tagged With: media literacy, Miedia/Shift, New Canaan High School, students

Students in social media: There’s monitoring & then there’s monitoring

October 2, 2013 By Anne 1 Comment

There's an upside and a serious downside to monitoring students in social media, and the upside doesn't involve outsourcing (that was an understatement). You'll see what I'm talking about when you get to the downside down there, but let's start with where and how it would actually help.… In her thoughtful commentary, "What inner city kids know about social media, and why we should listen," … [Read more...] about Students in social media: There’s monitoring & then there’s monitoring

Filed Under: bullying, Filtering, monitoring, etc., Law & Policy, Literacy & Citizenship, Parenting, Privacy, reputation, Risk & Safety, School & Tech, school policy, Social Media Tagged With: Geo Listening, Glendale Unified School District, Jacqui Cheng, Justin Patchin, monitoring, Privacy, Sameer Hinduja, Social Media, students

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IMPORTANT RESOURCES

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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