Spotlight on Digital Media And Learning

11.5.09 | Collier, founder and executive director of Net Family News, Inc., and co-chair (with Hemanshu Nigam of News Corp.) of the Obama administration’s Online Safety & Technology Working Group, says these new definitions of online safety can be “empowering as well as protective” for youth today. 

The article includes information on what we know about youth risk online and how youth use social media.

This week, Collier, along with technology journalist Larry Magid of SafeKids.com, will be releasing a paper, “Online Safety 3.0: Empowering and Protecting Youth,” at the Family Online Safety Institute’s annual conference. In it they argue that instead of filtering out access to social media, schools should be incorporating the technology to enhance learning.

Plus: European advocates also met last week at the Safer Internet Forum 2009 in Luxembourg. The theme was “Promoting Online Safety in Schools.” Collier summarizes the highlights of the meeting in this blog post.