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New from ConnectSafely: ‘A Parents’ Guide to Mobile Phones’

June 19, 2014 By Anne 1 Comment

It's hard to know exactly how many kids and teens have mobile phones right now, but we do know that over a year ago more than a third (37%) of US 12-to-17-year-olds had smartphones, up from 23% in 2011, and a whopping 78% had some kind of mobile phone. That's from the Pew Internet Project, one of the best US sources on youth and tech. We also know that mobile phones are how young people access … [Read more...] about New from ConnectSafely: ‘A Parents’ Guide to Mobile Phones’

Filed Under: child development, empathy, mobile, Parenting, Risk & Safety, Social Media, texting Tagged With: ATT, cellphones, ConnectSafely, CTIA, first phone, kids, mobile guide, mobile phones, parents guide, parents guide to mobile, smartphones, Sprint, T-Mobile, teens, Verizon Wireless

Social media reality check from Canadian youth: Key study

March 21, 2014 By Anne Leave a Comment

Before releasing its report on online conflict, MediaSmarts presented a much broader picture of young Canadians' experiences in social media: "Life Online." This is important context for any discussion about cyberbullying and other negative aspects of digitally informed life, whether we're setting policy at the household, school or national levels. "There are a lot of assumptions out there … [Read more...] about Social media reality check from Canadian youth: Key study

Filed Under: apps, gaming, kids, mobile, Parenting, Social Media, students, teens, tweens, videogames, Youth Tagged With: Internet safety, kids, MediaSmarts.ca, online lives, online safety, Parenting, Social Media, teens, Valerie Steeves, youth

Nothing complicated about this: Read ‘It’s Complicated’!

February 25, 2014 By Anne 3 Comments

danah boyd's book

Why is the title of social media researcher danah boyd's new book "It's Complicated"? Not just because "the social lives of networked teens" are complicated (the book's subtitle), but growing up in a networked world is too. And I'd add that it's further complicated when the adults in a teen's life don't have any idea how complicated it is – when they reduce it to "too much screen time." What's not … [Read more...] about Nothing complicated about this: Read ‘It’s Complicated’!

Filed Under: Parenting, Youth Tagged With: book review, danah boyd, growing up, It's Complicated, Parenting, Social Media, teens, youth practices

10-year-old Facebook: Data

February 4, 2014 By Anne Leave a Comment

How could anybody so young have a following in every country on the planet? Facebook turns 10 today and – as of December 31 – has 1.23 billion active users, CNET reports. More than 750 million of them are active on the site daily. Looking at US Facebook use, the Pew Internet Project provides even more insight in a blog post timed to the site's birthday. Pew reports that 57% of US adults use … [Read more...] about 10-year-old Facebook: Data

Filed Under: Research, social networking Tagged With: Facebook, Facebook users, likes, Social Media, social media research, status updates, teens

At the top of kids’ wish lists

December 11, 2013 By Anne Leave a Comment

Eighty-eight percent of US 12-to-17-year-olds want something digital for the holidays this year, CNET reports, and 69% want an Apple product. For girls (and teens overall), the iPhone tops wish lists, for boys it's the PlayStation 4. The iPad and Xbox One were close to the top, followed by an Apple iPod. The survey, by market researcher TNS Global for Ebates.com found that parents' guesses about … [Read more...] about At the top of kids’ wish lists

Filed Under: kids, Social Media, Youth Tagged With: iPad, iPhone, PlayStation 4, teens, Xbox One

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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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