I’ve just returned from giving a keynote to schools at the EARCOS teacher conference in Asia. My subject was whether we are too late to reverse the cyberbullying epidemic. The room was packed with educators wanting to understand what is driving [...]
Today is Safer Internet Day, when we give focused attention to the online lives of young people. The day will be marked with activities and online gatherings in over 200 countries and territories, reaching millions of youth worldwide. After [...]
Eloise Perkins lives with her family on Jersey, a tiny island in the stretch of water between the United Kingdom and France. As my child turns ten and rapidly heads towards the end of their primary school journey, my husband [...]
The issue of bullying is complex in its psychological and sociological complexity. In this article Mark Friis Hau shows how anthropology is supporting schools in Denmark in becoming bully-free. This article was first published by our friends at Antropocon As [...]
When parents and teachers first learn that a child is being bullied, it can sometimes be too late. Nicholas Carlisle talks with filmmaker, father and former victim of bullying, Dr Thomas Keith, about his award winning film Bullied. Shining [...]
The Brookings Institute reported devastating impacts during the pandemic on students and their ability to learn. In this interview Nicholas Carlisle speaks to Kate Sullivan, a seasoned 7th grade English Language Arts teacher in Durham, North Carolina and asks what [...]
Toxic speech has become an existential challenge for social media platforms, compelling them to invest heavily in the monitoring and removal of hateful content. But what does toxicity really mean? And can we successfully train machines to detect it? In [...]
Since the invention of online gaming, there have been concerns that video games were destroying the mental health of a generation. The WHO’s decision in 2018 to include Gaming Disorder in the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) has reignited fears [...]
Nicholas Carlisle interviews Val Whiting, a former WNBA player, about her experience of growing up in Delaware and being doxed and trolled for standing up for female athletes online. What was it like going to school in Delaware? We moved [...]
“No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion.” So wrote Nelson Mandela in his Long Walk to Freedom. However the newborn’s innate innocence is too easily corroded by the world [...]
Director of the global Power of Zero campaign, Nicholas Carlisle, shares how we can draw on lessons in meaning making from leaders both past and present to build the resilience of children to the challenges created by COVID-19. As COVID-19 [...]
One of the less-known effects of digital devices is the impact that they are having upon young eyes. Smartphones, personal computers and tablets all use light-emitting diodes (“LEDs”) to illuminate their screens and these are now larger and more powerful [...]
Natalie Tan at the Dignity School in Kuala Lumpur explains to Nicholas Carlisle how young refugee children use their smartphones to stay in touch with their parents and protect each other from capture. She also talks about the impact of [...]
Nicholas Carlisle interviews Isura Silva as part of our series on the online lives of young children across the world. Isura Silva is a strategic consultant for Sarvodaya Fusion, a unit of Sarvodaya movement, the oldest and largest charity non-profit [...]
Mayank Solanki and Deepthi Shiva work for Val-ed Initiatives in India, bringing programs to schools to raise peaceful, ethical and compassionate citizens. Nicholas Carlisle interviewed them to find out how technology is affecting young children in their home state of [...]
Last month the World Health Organization (WHO) published new guidelines for children under five. Their advice is this: cut screen time to an hour or less a day (none in the first year of life) and give your kid more [...]
