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Youth Safety on a Living InternetTuesday, October 5, 7:00-8:30 PM
Journalist and youth advocate Anne Collier, MA will talk about this new context for parenting, teaching, and working with young people, and will give an overview of what the emerging bodies of youth-online-risk and social-media research are really revealing, free of hyperbole. Collier is the Founder and Executive Director of Net Family News, Inc. (since 1999), and editor of NetFamilyNews.org. She co-directs ConnectSafely.org, a Web-based interactive forum and information site for teens, parents, educators and everybody interested in the impact of the social Web on youth, and vice versa. Collier serves as co-chair of the Obama administration’s Online Safety & Technology Working Group, which submitted its final report (PDF) to Congress in June 2010. Members worked with federal agencies, including the Department of Justice, Federal Trade Commission, Federal Communications Commission, and Department of Education, to evaluate industry efforts and to make recommendations to promote online safety for children through education, labeling, and parental control technology. This will NOT be your typical Internet-info program! CPDUs available for education professionals. Sponsored by FAN, in partnership with the PTOs of Wilmette Junior High School and Highcrest Middle School. FAN is grateful for its 2010-11 exclusive health care sponsorship by NorthShore University HealthSystem. Book sale and signing, courtesy of FAN’s official bookseller, The Book Stall of Winnetka. For more information, visit www.fan-ntts.org or www.wilmette39.org/wjhs. Audio from Anne Collier's talk Audio from the questions and answers after her talk Video of the talk is available on the Wilmette Junior High School website (at the bottom of the page)
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We, all of us, are experiencing a profound media shift. We’re
moving from the professionally-produced, one-to-many, government-regulated mass-media environment that we’ve known for most of our lives to a
multidirectional one that is both the product and mirror of people's creativity,
learning, and sociality, serving as a platform for it all. This “living
Internet” is another “place” where our – and our children's – lives
are lived and expressed in real time.