Let’s Start With Some Good Digital Citizen Reminders:
- Digital Citizenship Poster
- Should I Share This Photo?
- Top 10 Things to Think About Before You Post
- Citizenship in the Digital Age (Infographic)
- Cell Phone Contract
- Cell Phone Contract – Tweens
- Teen Girls & Their Moms Get Candid About Phones & Social Media (NPR)
- Today’s Kids Are Digital Natives, But They Aren’t Close to Being Computer Literate (New Research)
What’s all this social media stuff to FOR us? What’s it do TO us?
- Brain Hacking: How They Hook You on Your Phone (CBS 60 Minutes – :15)
- Connected But Alone – Are We Expecting More of Technology & Less of Each Other? -Sherry Turkle (TedTalk :20 mins)
- The Facebook Dilemma (Frontline PBS – Part 1 – :60)
- The Facebook Dilemma (Frontline PBS – Part 2 – :60)
- 7-Yr-Old YouTuber Earned $22 Million This Year (2018)
- John Green Taking a Year Off From Social Media (YouTube)
- She Helped Create Instagram – Then She Quit & Deleted the App
- The Day Trump Learned to Tweet (Politico)
- Tik Tok Is the Latest Reason Teens Are Addicted to Their Phones
- PRIVACY & POWER: YOUR DIGITAL FOOTPRINT – PART 1 (Video 12 mins)
- PRIVACY & POWER: THE ILLUSION OF CHOICE – PART 2 (Video 5 mins)
- INSTAGRAM Tests Hiding “Likes” in US
- Media Use By Teens & Tweens (New Research 2019)
- 3 Ways to Increase Social Media Platforms Transparency (Opinion)
- Why Are TikTok Teens Listening to a Song About Dimentia? (NYT)
- Selfish TikTokers Hassle Starbucks Baristas (Newsweek)
- Social Media is Attention Alcohol With Same Downsides As Booze (Atlantic)
- Aesthetic Consumerism & The Violence of Photography- Susan Sontag on Visual Culture & The Social Web (BrainPickings)
Let’s throw a couple of films into the mix…
- TINY SHOULDERS: Re-Branding Barbie (The Atlantic)- And we’ll watch this film!
- “SOCIAL ANIMALS” – A Peek Into the Digital & Real World of Today’s Image-Focused Teenagers
- “LIKE”: The Impact of Social Media On Our Lives
And What About Our Boys? See this “RAISING BOYS” series from The Washington Post: