Just from watching Engadget’s 6 min. video report about it one can tell “The Last Goodbye” – a 16 min. virtual reality experience that debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival that just wrapped in New York – will have a profound impact on anyone who experiences it. The reporter called it “emotionally harrowing.” So there […]
’13 Reasons Why’: Talking points for discussion with students
Is “13 Reasons Why” a hot topic at your school? Educators we’ve talked with have certainly at least overheard students talking about the series on Netflix. Based on a Young Adult book of the same title, the series has kicked up controversy in the U.S. and other countries and, for a number of reasons, shouldn’t […]
True school safety (in W. Va.)
It’s Kindness Week, and there’s probably no greater kindness than what’s being demonstrated in Morgan County, W.V., where great need is being met with great cooperation. County residents have created a web of youth-focused programs supporting kids in and out of school. One reporter writing about it called this web a “network of compassion,” and […]
What’s a social media helpline?
The U.S. has many fine, well-established hotlines and helplines designed to help with specific social problems (dating abuse, depression, domestic violence, etc.) or support vulnerable populations (such as LGBTQ youth). This helpline is about the online expression of those social problems and types of victimization: usually called “abusive content,” the kind of content that typically violates […]
Youth-serving Internet helplines worldwide
Americans may be interested to know that there are Internet-related helplines in 31 European countries, as well as in Australia and New Zealand. Europe’s helplines are run by Safer Internet Centres (in 27 of the EU member states, plus Iceland, Norway, Russia and Serbia), which make up the Brussels-based INSAFE network established by the European Commission […]