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Generative AI: July 2023 freeze frame

July 29, 2023 By Anne 5 Comments

It's feeling like I need a large language model brain to write about safety with large language models. [I certify that I only wish I had such a brain, and I am a human.] So let's freeze the film for a moment and see where we humans are with generative AI safety. First, so that we're all on the same page, a large language model is basically an algorithmic structure called a "neural … [Read more...] about Generative AI: July 2023 freeze frame

Filed Under: Law & Policy, Research, Risk & Safety, Security, Social Media Tagged With: Ajax, Amazon, Anthropic, Apple, Bard, ChatGPT, Congressional Internet Caucus Academy, David Polgar, generative AI, Google, Ilya Sutskever, Inflection, Internet Education Foundation, LLaMA, LLM, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, red-teaming, regulation, Renée Cummings, Tobias Rose-Stockwell, White House

‘State of the Union’ & the student part of student privacy protection

January 22, 2015 By Admin Leave a Comment

There's a lot of confusion in the air about student data privacy, and some widely quoted words about it from President Obama in his address Tuesday night didn't help (but I suspect his speechwriters were just looking for a spot to put a high-priority topic into "a simple, dramatic message about economic fairness," as the New York Times put it: "No foreign nation, no hacker should be able to … [Read more...] about ‘State of the Union’ & the student part of student privacy protection

Filed Under: Law & Policy, Literacy & Citizenship, Parenting, Privacy Tagged With: consumer privacy, cybersecurity, data privacy, digital literacy, Google, Internet safety, legislation, media literacy, online privacy, pledge, President Obama, SEL, social literacy, student privacy, White House

Our kids’ privacy & a White House report on ‘big data’

May 16, 2014 By Anne Leave a Comment

Referring to a new report from the White House that she contributed to, social media scholar danah boyd points out how impossibly simplistic it is to view "big data" as either all good or all bad. I'm thankful for the balance it struck in its findings on big data in education between the tremendous opportunities it represents for students and educators and the risks to student privacy. It … [Read more...] about Our kids’ privacy & a White House report on ‘big data’

Filed Under: Privacy, School & Tech, school policy, Social Media, Youth Tagged With: big data, Big Data: Seizing Opportunities, COPPA, danah boyd, FERPA, Preserving Values, Privacy, schools, student privacy, White House

Takeaways from the bullying-prevention summit

March 10, 2011 By Anne 5 Comments

It's highly likely that prevention of online and offline bullying took a major leap forward in the US today, thanks to the bright spotlight a White House event trained on this issue: the Bullying Prevention Summit. But even more important than massive awareness raising is the basing of all that attention on substantive, research-based messaging. It is truly heartening to watch a President, First … [Read more...] about Takeaways from the bullying-prevention summit

Filed Under: bullying, cyberbullying, Research, Risk & Safety Tagged With: bullying, bullying prevention summit, cyberbullying, Cyberbullying Research Center, Facebook, Formpsring, social reporting, White House

Bullying-prevention summit at the White House

March 9, 2011 By Anne 1 Comment

President and Mrs. Obama are holding a bullying prevention summit at the White House tomorrow (March 10), and you are invited. Here's their video invitation to watch live (links to the live stream tomorrow at the bottom of this post). The President's schedule in WhiteHouse.gov says that he and the First Lady will deliver opening remarks at 10:35 ET. The White House says it will have "live video … [Read more...] about Bullying-prevention summit at the White House

Filed Under: bullying, cyberbullying, Risk & Safety Tagged With: bullying, cyberbullying, First Lady Michelle Obama, President Obama, White House

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IMPORTANT RESOURCES

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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