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An uncle’s take on social media for kid users

March 7, 2015 By Anne Leave a Comment

The uncle in question, Nick Bilton, is also a tech reporter for the New York Times, so he's got a certain 30,000-foot perspective on social media that can be helpful to parents (because, even when writing commentaries, [good] reporters have been conditioned to represent things dispassionately, which is helpful in the tech-parenting space). So with his nephew Luca in mind, Mr. Bilton puts social … [Read more...] about An uncle’s take on social media for kid users

Filed Under: Parenting, Risk & Safety, Social Media, Youth Tagged With: Nick Bilton, Parenting, parents, Social Media, tech parenting

Perfect digital parenting doesn’t exist

November 9, 2014 By Anne 2 Comments

I'm stating the obvious – that perfect digital-age parenting doesn't exist – but let me explain why it doesn't. Writer Heather Havrilesky got me thinking about this with her commentary "The 'Mommy' Problem" in the New York Times this weekend. She focuses on mothers (since our culture does so much) and on offline parenting. I'll add the digital part. She writes that "the current culture demands … [Read more...] about Perfect digital parenting doesn’t exist

Filed Under: adolescent development, at-risk teens, child development, kids, Parenting, Risk & Safety, Social Media, teens, Youth Tagged With: child development, digital parenting, Heather Havrilesky, homeless people, kids, Parenting, parents, resilience, risk, tech parenting, youth

Help with mobile apps kids love

May 23, 2013 By Anne 4 Comments

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I am delighted to announce the release of our new parents' guides to two of the most popular social apps among teens, Instagram and Snapchat. You can read or download and print the free guides at ConnectSafely.org. Just 6 pages – including the "Top 5 Questions" parents have about each app right up front – the guides are meant to demystify these mobile apps so parents and kids can have an informed … [Read more...] about Help with mobile apps kids love

Filed Under: apps, Literacy & Citizenship, mobile, Social Media Tagged With: Instagram, mobile platform, Parenting, Snapchat, tech parenting

TMI for parents in social media – for now, anyway

May 15, 2013 By Anne Leave a Comment

A lot of unusually thoughtful points about parenting in our collective, global social media environment are made in this recent New York Times article: "Cyberparenting and the Risk of T.M.I." Pamela Paul writes that, for this generation of teens, it's not Big Brother so much as Big Mother and/or Big Father. "Yes, we know contemporary parents are hyperinvolved in their children’s lives," she … [Read more...] about TMI for parents in social media – for now, anyway

Filed Under: Filtering, monitoring, etc., Parenting, Risk & Safety Tagged With: cyberparenting, Facebook, mobile, monitoring, parental controls, Parenting, tech parenting, TMI

From ‘flipped classrooms’ to flipped households

February 20, 2013 By Anne 3 Comments

Sounds like a great idea to me. You've probably heard the term "flipped classroom," where the "lecture" or teaching happens at home, usually in video format and at the student's own pace, and the "homework" – the opportunity to practice what's been taught – happens in the classroom. In this set-up, all kinds of interesting things happen: the class becomes much more interactive, with teacher … [Read more...] about From ‘flipped classrooms’ to flipped households

Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: family contract, Lynn Schofield Clark, Parenting, rules, tech parenting

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Control Shift: a pivotal book for Internet safety
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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
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Let Grow Foundation
Making Caring Common
Raising Digital Natives, author Devorah Heitner's site
Renee Hobbs at the Media Education Lab
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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)
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"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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