Commentaries – Staff

The Federal Trade Commission looked at 27 worlds, 14 for kids and 13 aimed at teens and adults. Check out what it found…. By Anne Collier This is pioneering stuff on

Britain’s first child online safety strategy is impressively visionary and research-based, but I’d add a few points and next steps…. By Anne Collier Where

The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child needs to embrace children’s online lives, and Internet-safety education needs to embrace the UN’s new holistic view

How digital citizenship is protective and relevant to youth – and how to make it even more so. By Anne Collier “Digital citizenship” is a rapidly expanding

Libraries are developers the ever more important filter that spells both online safety and academic success: the cognitive one. By Anne Collier Actually, the library is both

Highlights of the kind of online-safety thinking and work going on in the EU’s 27 member

Research shows that community (one’s social network) is protective as well as supportive – now let’s leverage that to further youth online safety. By Anne

It doesn’t work for adults to create new-media “solutions” and child protection out of a conventional-media world view. By Anne Collier No wonder adults,

A working definition that also embraces youth safety and empowerment on the fixed and mobile participatory Web By Anne Collier See what you think about this as a working

Mobile learning can help with the growing disconnect between students’ lives and school and between informal and formal learning. By Anne Collier The real disconnect is