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Online harassment, bullying: Wisdom from someone who’s been there

October 4, 2015 By Anne 2 Comments

To mark National Bullying Prevention Month, here – in addition to some fresh research on bystanders further down – are some simple but powerful insights from someone who has been and continues to be subjected to severe online harassment and is now helping other victims recover from it.... "I'm a game developer, I'm a systems thinker so I can see patterns in behavior," said Zoe Quinn, who, … [Read more...] about Online harassment, bullying: Wisdom from someone who’s been there

Filed Under: bullying, cyberbullying, Risk & Safety Tagged With: #gamergate, bullying, CCRC, cyberbullying, Kevin Marks, Lisa Jones, online harassment, Youth Voice Project, Zoe Quinn

Youth participation’s growing momentum

February 6, 2015 By Anne Leave a Comment

It's exciting to see the signs of adult support for youth voices and participation multiplying. It's important and it's time. Here is just a sampler of this encouraging trend: Agency for citizenship. In Internet safety circles, we're seeing increasing focus on citizenship (online and offline) rather than on safety alone – safety as a means to competent participation and expression in … [Read more...] about Youth participation’s growing momentum

Filed Under: childrens rights, Literacy & Citizenship, Social Media, students, Youth Tagged With: activism, Born This Way Foundation, Brains Trust, children's rights, citizen-sourced, clicktivism, digital citizenship, EU Kids Online, In Their Own Words, James Paul Gee, Sonia Livingstone, Student Bill of Rights, Student Voice Project, student-source, Susan Swearer, UNCRC, YAWCRC, Young & Well Cooperative Research Centre, youth, Youth Voice Project

Notes from a conference on bullying

November 18, 2010 By Anne 3 Comments

The only way really to change a school culture to one that's respectful and safe is to get everybody involved, and everybody has to include students, of course, because it's their school, their workplace and they represent the vast majority of the people there. "So how do we involve them?" I asked Stan Davis of the Youth Voice Project on a panel I was moderating at the International Bullying … [Read more...] about Notes from a conference on bullying

Filed Under: bullying, cyberbullying, Risk & Safety Tagged With: bullying, cyberbullying, efficacy, Finland, IBPA, KiVa, Microsoft, resilience, Stan Davis, youth agency, Youth Voice Project

Students on bullying: Important study

March 4, 2010 By Anne 16 Comments

Having someone, especially a peer, really listen and be there for them seems to help bullying victims more than anything, according to students themselves. A new study of nearly 12,000 US students in grades 5-12 offers important insights into bullying victims' own views on what causes bullying, how it affects them, and what does and doesn't work in dealing with it. The students, surveyed by the … [Read more...] about Students on bullying: Important study

Filed Under: bullying, cyberbullying, Risk & Safety, School & Tech, school policy, victimization Tagged With: Charisse Nixon, Stan Davis, Youth Voice Project

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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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