Educators may be wondering about the latest viral media scare called “Momo,” so we’re here to help. Though it has been likened to the “Blue Whale game” of 2015-‘17, it doesn’t seem quite as viral—yet, anyway. But like Blue Whale, the very reason why it has affected a number of countries is that it’s really creepy, […]
The latest on teens’ social media use
YouTube, Instagram and Snapchat are US 13-17 year-olds’ top social media picks now – at 85%, 72% and 69%, respectively. That’s according to the Pew Research Center’s just-released “Teens, Social Media & Technology 2018.” [The percentages add up to more than 100% because, as is well known, teens use multiple social media apps and services, […]
All this social media news: What just happened?
What the ongoing Cambridge Analytica story and last week’s congressional hearings with Facebook’s CEO are really all about is that everybody’s waking up to the meaning of “big data.”
Media literacy opp for your students & you
This week we were alerted to a teens’ top apps chart posted on a principal’s page on Facebook. It featured the chart in this thoughtful blog post by educator April Requard in New Mexico. The chart, “10 Apps Teens Are Using that Parents Need to Know,” represents a great media literacy education opp for educators as well […]
Clearer picture of cyberbullying: Research
There’s growing consensus among researchers in many countries, including ours, that “cyberbullying” isn’t the most useful term for online hurtful behavior and may be inhibiting what we can learn from young people about what’s harmful to them – that we need to find out from youth themselves what hurts them and to what degree it […]