Anne Collier on 4/30/12

tags: cyberbullying, digital reputation, education, harrassment

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Anne Collier on 3/20/12

Three-quarters of US 12-to-17-year-olds text on cellphones, and the volume of texts they send and receivedis now 60 a day for the median teen texter, up from 50 a day in 2009, according to a just-released study by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. “Older teens [14-17], boys, and blacks are leading the increase,”Pew says,... more »

Anne Collier on 2/27/12

tags: education

Every generation, we adults seem to swing between fear of young people and fear for them. Of course now, with the advent of social media, it's really justified, right? Actually, no, even less so. More on that in a second. In a commentary at Forbes.com, parent and tech policy analyst Adam Thierer at George Mason University asks... more »

Anne Collier on 11/28/11

tags: parental controls, privacy settings

A lot of insights into digital-age parenting have been surfacing in the research this year – so much good stuff, in fact, that I'm going to crunch it way down into brief snapshots and give you the links so you can find what's relevant to you. 1. Tech parenting Right up front in "Toward Predicting Youth Resistance to Interne... more »

Anne Collier on 11/3/11

tags: Facebook

A whole lot of us know that 13 is Facebook’s minimum age, but fewer of us know that the reason for that is not kids’ online safety but a law called the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act designed to protect the privacy of kids’ data – a law administered by the Federal Trade Commission, which right now has it under rev... more »

Anne Collier on 10/31/11

tags: cyberbullying, digital footprint, education

The EU Kids Online researchers look at young people's Internet use in a child-centric, contextual way and confirm how individual their Net use is. The individuality of their online experiences is a theme I've seen over and over in North American research too over the past 10 years, as a journalist and as a member of two nat... more »

Anne Collier on 10/27/11

tags: digital reputation, online etiquette, schools

I question it even as I'm preparing for talks on the subject in several countries this coming fall…. The term "digital citizenship" is heard more and more in educational and online-safety circles. The subject is now part of the International Society for Technology in Education's national educational technology standards, and... more »

Anne Collier on 10/4/11

tags: smartphone, social networking, texting

I recently sent the teen interns who advise and write for RadicalParenting.com (there are 120 of them ages 13-19) a question. I asked them what are the top 5 things they fight about with their parents. Amazingly, most of those arguments were about technology—fighting over cell phone bills, arguments over whether or not it was ap... more »

Anne Collier on 7/4/11

New York Times columnist David Brooks may've gone a bit far in saying "Amy Chua is a wimp" (or his headline writer did) but – after President Obama called this "our generation's sputnik moment" in his State of the Union address and in light of his call for highspeed Internet access for 98% of Americans – maybe not all that fa... more »