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Keynotes, trainings, and other presentations on youth and technology for the community to promote online safety, digital citizenship, resilience, empathy, and more..
Preventing Bullying and Cyberbullying by Building Hope
With the development of positive psychology over the last few decades, practitioners have increasingly seen value in a strengths- rather than risks-based approach to preventing youth problem behaviors. Hope is one construct of this type, which involves a thinking process related to motivations, goal attainment, and future success. Our research focuses on hope as “psychological […]
AI Risks and Harms Among Youth
Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is quickly reshaping the digital experiences of young people. It offers real opportunities for creativity, learning, and connection. It also introduces risks and harms we are only beginning to understand: the spread of misinformation, the creation of explicit or defamatory content, and the facilitation of cyberbullying, hate speech, and identity-based attacks. […]
Youth, Generative AI, and Social Chatbots: What We’re Learning, and What Comes Next
This training (customized for either youth-serving practitioners or youth themselves) will equip attendees with a comprehensive understanding of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), its growing ubiquity, its benefits and contributions to individuals and society, and the attendant risks and harms to consider and mitigate. Through anonymous flash polling, participants will share their own positive and negative […]
Drug Availability on Social Media
This training will help parents, educators, and other youth-serving adults understand how online environments can contribute to easy, quick, and unauthorized access to substances that are often unsafe and sometimes even deadly. Attendees will learn about the the methods by which dealers operate, the impact of fentanyl on the drug trade, the relative ubiquity of […]
Parent and Community Presentation
This adult presentation provides an overview of ways teens use & misuse technology. It also discusses what adults can do to help children be safe online.
