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Children’s own views on well-being: Global study

May 16, 2022 By Anne 3 Comments

It’s an inspiring – and necessary – growing trend: looking at well-being through the lens of children’s own digital experiences. Necessary because, in order to understand how good or bad young people’s experiences are in digital spaces, we have to talk with them – about their experiences now and their desires and designs for better ones going forward. “There is no universal agreement as to … [Read more...] about Children’s own views on well-being: Global study

Filed Under: gaming, Research, Social Media, Youth Tagged With: Amanda Third, Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child, City University of New York, Innocenti, Joan Ganz Cooney Center, New York University, RITEC, UNICEF, University of Sheffield, Western Sydney University, Young and Resilient Research Centre

The state of global youth, digitally speaking: Research

December 16, 2017 By Anne 2 Comments

UNICEF's SOTWC 2017 report

There could be no better year-end wrap-up or gift for stakeholders in youth online safety worldwide than UNICEF's just-released "State of the World's Children…in a Digital World." In it are the latest research, stories and commentaries from multiple international perspectives, including, to its credit, those of young people in 26 countries. In addition to their views and practices, the report … [Read more...] about The state of global youth, digitally speaking: Research

Filed Under: childrens rights, Parenting, Research, Risk & Safety Tagged With: Achila Imchen, Amanda Third, Brian Keeley, digital parenting, digital rights, GDPR, Internet addiction, Michael Rich, Mimi Ito, parental consent, Sonia Livingstone, UNICEF, youth rights

Insights from under 18 Net users in 4 countries: Research

November 3, 2016 By Anne 1 Comment

Young people worldwide are beginning to see the Internet "as a human right, a necessity." That's from Global Kids Online, a research project and network now encompassing 33 countries (and counting). It just released findings from South Africa, the Philippines, Serbia and Argentina, summarized here. "My favorite apps are social media – Whatsapp and Facebook. Also Instagram," 15-year-old Siyanda … [Read more...] about Insights from under 18 Net users in 4 countries: Research

Filed Under: Parenting, Research Tagged With: Global Kids Online, LSE, Mariya Stoilova, Sonia Livingstone, UNICEF

Two 2014 anniversaries that say reams about our kids’ futures

December 30, 2014 By Anne Leave a Comment

We don't want to let 2014 slip away without marking two anniversaries that are very important to our children: those of an invention and a convention. This year was the 25th anniversary of Tim Berners-Lee's release of his computer code creating the World Wide Web, now with some 3 billion users worldwide, and the 25th anniversary of the UN's adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child … [Read more...] about Two 2014 anniversaries that say reams about our kids’ futures

Filed Under: childrens rights, Literacy & Citizenship, Risk & Safety, Youth Tagged With: Berkman Center, children's rights, digital literacy, Digitally Connected, EU Kids Online, GoodPlay Project, media literacy, participation rights, social literacy, Sonia Livingstone, Tim Berners-Lee, UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, UNCRC, UNICEF, Urs Gasser, World Wide Web

Cross-cultural in so many ways: Insights from ‘Digitally Connected’

May 2, 2014 By Anne Leave a Comment

Equality/equity: The difference

It was a small but mighty gathering at Harvard's Berkman Center this week – mighty in diversity of geographical, personal and professional perspective (40% of the participants were from the global South). It was called "Digitally Connected," but it was about a more inclusive and, I think, more lasting, holistic sense of what "connected" means. It was co-organized by UNICEF and Harvard University's … [Read more...] about Cross-cultural in so many ways: Insights from ‘Digitally Connected’

Filed Under: Law & Policy, Literacy & Citizenship, mobile, Research, Risk & Safety, Social Media, Youth Tagged With: Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Digitally Connected conference, Harvard Law School, Sonia Livingstone, UNICEF, Urs Gasser

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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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