How to choose (or make!) an anti-bullying video that helps
Recently a graduate student was given the assignment to find videos on YouTube that are “helpful to kids in confronting bullying.” The criteria given the student were: Make sure the video… 1. is clear...
View Article‘Blue Whale’ game: ‘Fake news’ about teens spread internationally
It has been reported as real news here in the U.S. in recent weeks, just as it was earlier in eastern Europe, and what a dark, disrespectful message it sends about young people in any country. I’m...
View ArticleMedia literacy lessons from comedian ChescaLeigh
Franchesca Ramsey, or @chescaleigh – the comedy writer, YouTube star with 247,000+ subscribers, host of MTV Decoded, and author of the just-released Well, That Escalated Quickly: Memoirs and Mistakes...
View ArticleMedia literacy may take a village now
Last week’s post featured a U.S. celebrity’s very personal media literacy learning and teaching. This week a program successfully tested in the Ukraine that represents an equally informal much more...
View ArticleMomo. Again.
I hardly need to weigh in because I already did – in depth, last summer, at the peak of the last Momo wave. But I will only to highlight the best thinking I’ve seen this go round and add 4 points –...
View Article2 new papers spell a turning point for digital safety & citizenship: Part 2
The timing struck me. Though it seems all of life is at an inflection point now, in the middle of a pandemic, two new papers that represent a pivotal moment for digital safety and citizenship education...
View ArticleNew game to help middle schoolers be media literacy masters
It’s definitely not your typical American high school – not the one in “Agents of Influence.” But high school is the backdrop, which is smart for a media literacy videogame aimed at middle schoolers,...
View ArticleChatGPT for media literacy training
You may’ve heard about ChatGPT. It reached 100 million active users last month, “making it the fastest-growing consumer product in history,” according to The Economist, which may have something to do...
View ArticleShould our kids learn how to use generative AI? Well…
A teacher in an international school in Panama asks her students to critique essays “written” by ChatGPT, while others have their students fact-check AI material, according to Time. University of...
View ArticleSupporting the youngest witnesses of this humanitarian crisis
Sometimes we parents feel so helpless when our children come to us hurting as much as us when they see something awful happening in the world. In her email letter to our community, my friend, colleague...
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