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Reading:

• Who Cares, I have Nothing to Hide

• #Alexfromtarget

• You're reacting to Celebgate wrong

• How Much Does Google Really Know About You?

• Why Kids Sext (NPR)

• Privacy and Instagram

• 10 Important Password Tips Everyone Should Know 

• How to Remove Embarrassing Photos from Social Media

• The Issue Formerly Known as Privacy

Practice:

• Spot The Troll

• How Secure is my Password?

Videos:

• Pandora's App

• 5 Tips to Protect your Privacy Online

• Stay Safe from Phishing and Scams

• Schools are watching students' social media, raising questions about free speech

• How Not to Get Hacked: Passwords

Reading:

• Is Social Media A Teenage Wasteland?

Videos:

• Is the internet expanding or narrowing our minds?

• Social Media for Social Good

• The Power of Social Media Connecting for Good

• Does Social Media have the Power to Change the World?

Reading:

• Be a Creator, Not a Consumer

• This Is What Makes Us Creative

• How Instagram Became the Artist's Most Important Tool

• Artist Transforms Travel Photos

Videos:

• How To Be Creative

Reading:

• NYTimes: Are your Tech Habits Hurting Your grades? (In this article is a link to a collection of audio comments by teens about their connected lives. Use this link if you want to share with your group.)

• NYTimes: Compulsive Texting Takes Its Toll on Teenagers 

• Stanford study on multitasking and tweens

Videos:

• The Impossible Texting and Driving Test

• Single Tasking is the New Multitasking

• Device Free Dinner

Reading:

• Three Ways to avoid the Wellbeing Pitfalls of Digital World

• The Flight From Conversation 

• How Social Media can induce Feelings of "Missing Out"

• Does the Internet Make you Depressed?

• Sharing Spaces - A Failure to Communicate

• A Case of Internet Addiction

• What We're Not Doing Because We're Online All The Time

• Do you worry about the lack of anonymity in the Digital Age

• Here's What a Constantly Plugged-life Is Doing to Your Kids' Bodies

Videos:

• A Day in Teens' Digital Life

• The Doctors 48 Hour Technology Detox Course

• People Give up Social Media for a Week

• Connected but Alone

• Teens and Their Smartphones

Reading:

• Turning Purpose into Impact

• How the Parkland Teens got so good at social media

• Teen creates 'Sit With Me' app to help kids find lunch mates (if you want to listen to the audio, put on earphones!)

• ReThink, an anti-bullying app developed by a teen

• Dosomething.org helps young people have an impact

• Do Something.org

• How Hashtag Activism Is Changing the Way We Protest

• Social Media Helps Syrian Refugee

• Going Viral: what social media activists need to know

• Hashtag Activism and Its Limits

• Empty Clicks: why online activism Is often meaningless

• Activism or Slactivism? How social media hurts and helps student activism

• Online Avengers

• Social Media for Social Good

Videos:

• "Sit with Us": Bullied Teen creates an app to tackle Lunchtime loneliness

• Does Social Media have the power to change the world

• Think Millennials are the Me, Me Me Generation? Think Again!

• Black Lives Matter: How 3 words became a Movement

• The New Change-Makers: An Introduction to Digital Activism

• How to Send a Mattergram

Reading:

• Can We No Longer Believe Anything We See ?

• Did a Fourth Grader Write This? Or a New Chatbot?

Videos

• Introduction to AI

• The AI Revolution

• How AI Works

• Generative AI: What Is It Good For?

• What is ChatGPT?