Aug 25, 2010
By Anne Collier To parent, educator, and graduate student Seann Dikkers, videogaming is a great parenting, teaching, and learning tool. A teacher for 10 years and school administrator for four, Dikkers is now working on his PhD in education, and he says in his site,...
Jul 27, 2010
We need to get going with the digital citizenship instruction that will help us live together, learn from our mistakes and move on (online and offline) in the very public digital age. By Anne Collier Readers, this is turning out to be a series on digital citizenship,...
Jul 26, 2010
The “Jessi Slaughter” story is a textbook example of why digital-citizenship instruction needs to be a national priority – and points to a good test for its effectiveness down the line. By Anne Collier The story of “Jessi Slaughter” last week...
Jul 17, 2010
By Anne Collier Is anyone in your (extended) family needing a primer on (Web- and phone-based) social networking, maybe to understand what his great-granddaughter finds so compelling about “this Facebook thing?” If so, David Pogue at the New York Times...
Jun 18, 2010
More than just fun ‘n’ games. They can be a social experience – in a single room or over the Internet. For some families, they can be a way to get together. They’re also an evolving art form, like film. And research has shown that many games can be...
Dec 22, 2009
Why an authoritarian style or sudden imposition of parental controls – against sexting or any other troubling new issue – don’t work very well in parenting social Web users By Anne Collier We’re in quite a fix, we parents, over this “sexting”...
