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Social Maturity as a Measure of Success: It’s not cool to be mean … “Pass it On”

This week we will be featuring more great online safety materials and resources, but we wanted to start the week on a different, yet connected, note: The need to move toward valuing social maturity/intelligence as an equally worthy measure of “success” as academic goals.  We have written about this before (see for example our blogs on Adolescents [...]

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Discussing cyberbullying with your children and other children’s parents … conversation “starters”

We’ve talked quite a bit on this site about the need to be proactive in engaging in conversation with young people on the issue of cyberbullying, online safety, and digitial citizenship.  Yet we also know that oftentimes those conversations are not easy – it is hard to know where to start, when to start, what [...]

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Cyberbullying Prevention: A “Team” Approach

Readers of our blog will know that we are firm believers that effective cyberbullying prevention is best achieved through a “team” approach involving all stakeholders (parents, young people, teachers, administrators, and other interested community members).   In this blog, we present what Stephen Balkam of the Family Online Safety Institute and Michael Rich, MD, of the Center on Media [...]

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Cyberbullying Prevention: Digital Citizenship in a Connected Culture Curriculum

Looking for a curriculum to help address cyberbullying and digital citizenship with your middle schools students?  One which does not require special technical knowledge in order to implement it?  One which includes resources for students, teachers and parents?  Then take a look at this curriculum which will be available soon from Commonsense Media, apparently for FREE!  The [...]

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