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Making the future: Why we need to help kids make stuff

September 23, 2013 By Anne 4 Comments

Remember when we thought desktop publishing and then blogging were revolutionary (you may be too young!)? Well, now there's desktop "manufacturing," and your children may soon be printing out their own shoes – of their own design or someone else's, depending solely on their own esthetics (pun intended). Or they could be printing out their dinner. We're in that phase of 3D printing and personal … [Read more...] about Making the future: Why we need to help kids make stuff

Filed Under: kids, play, Social Media, Youth Tagged With: 3-D printing, Fab Labs, Gary Stager, maker day, Maker Faire, maker movement, MIT, Neil Gershenfeld, personal fabrication, Sylvia Martinez

How 5th-graders stole show, saved ‘Splash’

September 15, 2010 By Anne Leave a Comment

It took less than two minutes for a video produced by 5th-graders to accomplish what a dozen concerned (adult) citizens set out to do: convince the Sacramento, Calif., Board of Directors not to slash "Splash" in yet another round of budget cuts. "Thanks to Splash, thousands of elementary, middle, and high school students have explored life in Sacramento’s streams and, in the process, have come to … [Read more...] about How 5th-graders stole show, saved ‘Splash’

Filed Under: education technology, Social Media Tagged With: Gail Desler, Generation YES, Sacramento, Splash, Sylvia Martinez

PBS Frontline’s ‘Digital Nation’: Presenting our generation with a crucial choice

February 1, 2010 By Anne 8 Comments

Seems to me, Gever Tully's Tinkering School would be the perfect antidote for all the concern about kids and digital media expressed in PBS Frontline's "Digital Nation" – hands-on problem-solving, lots of tools, collaboratively learning by doing, giving kids time to work the problem, celebrating and analyzing failures, teaching that success is embedded in the process (watch his TED Talk about … [Read more...] about PBS Frontline’s ‘Digital Nation’: Presenting our generation with a crucial choice

Filed Under: Parenting, Social Media Tagged With: Digital Nation, Douglas Rushkoff, Gever Tully, James Paul Gee, John Seely Brown, Katie Salen, Marc Prensky, Quest Atlantis, Rachel Dretzin, Sylvia Martinez, World of Warcraft

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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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