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Social media & what our kids could be teaching us

August 15, 2015 By Anne Leave a Comment

Two years ago, when "selfie" was named "Word of the Year" and the spontaneous snapping of self-portraits on cellphones was being vilified as yet another example of youth's narcissism, author and educator Rachel Simmons posted a bit of healthy disruption. She wrote in Slate, "Consider this: The selfie is a tiny pulse of girl pride - a shout-out to the self." Simmons gets it. She adds, "Some girls … [Read more...] about Social media & what our kids could be teaching us

Filed Under: empathy, hate speech, Literacy & Citizenship, Parenting, Risk & Safety, Social Media, Youth Tagged With: Meerkat, Periscope, public shaming, Rachel Simmons, selfies, Snapchat, Vine

Millennials’ changing social media use: Survey

August 28, 2014 By Anne 1 Comment

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It's hard to believe the high end of the Millennials age bracket is over 30 already! The Pew Research Center's definition says they're all adults, putting their age range at 18-33 (check out Pew's 6 distinguishing characteristics of this generation), while Ypulse.com has a range of 14-32, a huge spectrum, considering 14-year-olds have just started high school and lots of 32-year-olds are already … [Read more...] about Millennials’ changing social media use: Survey

Filed Under: Research, Social Media, Youth Tagged With: data, Facebook, Instagram, Millennials, Pew Internet Project, Snapchat, social media research, twitter, Vine, YouTube, YPulse

Fresh data on US kids’ social media use

June 9, 2014 By Anne Leave a Comment

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Young people's social media interests are changing right along with the media, according to the latest Speak Up study, which surveyed more than 325,000 students, along with parents, teachers and administrators. "Only 30% of middle school students and 39% of high school students now say they're maintaining a social networking site," says Project Tomorrow, which conducts the annual survey, "a … [Read more...] about Fresh data on US kids’ social media use

Filed Under: kids, Parenting, Research, Social Media, teens, Youth Tagged With: icanhelp, Instagram, MMOGs, Project Tomorrow, Snapchat, Speak Up survey, twitter, Vine

Posting, sharing, shooting video: Study

October 23, 2013 By Anne Leave a Comment

Posting videos in apps and Web services has become a mainstream online activity, and not just for our kids. More than three-quarters (78%) of US adults watch online videos and the percentage of them who post them has more than doubled since 2009, from 14% to 31%, according to the Pew Internet Project. "That includes 18% of adult internet users who post videos they have created or recorded … [Read more...] about Posting, sharing, shooting video: Study

Filed Under: mobile, Social Media, video Tagged With: digital video, Instagram, Pew Internet, smartphones, video sharing, Vine, webcams

Details, context on Rounds, Vine & other video-sharing apps

February 11, 2013 By Anne 3 Comments

The company behind Rounds – a video hangout app for mobile and Web – has decided to keep the socializing just among friends. Referring to its "young user base" (it says 70% of its users are under 25, though it has yet to catch on at my son's high school), this week announced that the less than 3-month-old app was "retiring" its "Meet New People" feature "to focus on longer, more meaningful video … [Read more...] about Details, context on Rounds, Vine & other video-sharing apps

Filed Under: apps, Risk & Safety, Social Media, video Tagged With: apps, cellphones, mobile phones, mobile technology, Rounds, twitter, video sharing, Vine

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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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