These organizations offer resources to educate users about the positive and negative aspects of social media.

Beyond The Screen

Mission: to bring technical expertise and insider eperience to a growing ecosystem of checks and balances to drive media for the common good.

Center For Humane Technology

CHT is dedicated to radically reimaging our digital infrastructure. Our mission is to drive a comprehensive shift toward humane technology that supports our well-being, democracy, and shared information environment.

Children and Screens: Institute of Digital Media and Child Development

The Institute works to understand and address compelling questions regarding child development through interdisciplinary dialogue, public information and research.

Children’s Screen Time Action Network

Children’s Screen Time Action Network supports children’s healthy development by fostering collaboration and resource sharing between professionals who help families manage their technology use. They offer a resource library and community collaborative workgroups.

Digital Wellness Lab

The Boston Children’s Hospital Digital Wellness Lab resources include programs for children ages 0-25; a clinic for interactive media and internet disorders; research projects focusing on interactive media.

FairPlay

Fair For Kids is committed to helping children thrive in an increasingly commercialized, screen-obsessed culture, and is the only organization dedicated to ending marketing to children.

HArvard GRaduate School of Education/ A Toolkit for Digital Civics

This free Usable Knowledge Toolkit is designed for high school students but can be adapted for younger students. It can be used by educators to promote digital literacy and effective civic participation.

I Guardian

Project I Guardian aims to counter online child predators. It is focused on keeping children and teen safe. This is a project of Homeland Security.

Media Health Effects

Media Health Effects is a free research tool for anyone interested in the scientific evidence behind the ways media, technology, youth, and health intersect.

MediaWise

MediaWise is a digital literacy project produced by Poynter Institute in partnership with Stanford History Education Group. It’s aim is to teach teenagers how to sort fact from fiction online.

The News Literacy Project

The News Literacy Project, a nonpartisan national education nonprofit, provides programs and resources for educators and the public to teach and share the abilities needed to be smart, active consumers of news and information, and equal and engaged participants in a democracy.

Organizations for Social Media Safety

OFSMS is a consumer protection organization exclusively focused on social media. They protect against cyberbullying, hate speech, sexual harassment, human trafficking, propaganda, and depression/suicide.

Pen America

The Pen America Field Manual offers concrete strategies for how to defend yourself and others. Whatever your identity or vocation, anyone active online will find useful tools and resources for navigating online abuse and tightening digital safety.

Rumor Guard

The News Literacy Project created RumorGuard to help us all learn how to recognize misinformation and stop it in its tracks. Learn concrete tips to help you build your news literacy foundation and confidently evaluate claims you see online.

Social Media Helpline for Schools

This is a hotline for school administrators and teachers and other personnel dealing with school-related issues in social media. They provide services that navigate apps, harassment, cyberbullying and other inappropriate content.

Stay Safe Online

The National Cyber Security Alliance provides resources for total online security in the Stay Safe Online programs. Plus, it offers C-SAVE volunteer programs to schools to teach cybersecurity, online safety and digital citizenship.

Tech Safety Net Project

The Safety Net focuses on the intersection of technology and abuse. Safety Net works to address how that abuse impacts safety, privacy, accessibility, and civil rights. Get training, tech assistance and resources.

UCLA Information Security Office/ Are you Practicing Safe Social Networking?

UCLA campus information security office provides security best practices for safe social networking, cybersecurity guidelines, securing mobile devices, identity protection, and blogs that target specific security issues.

The University of Texas Center for Identity

The UT multi-disciplinary approach to addressing the identity ecosystem investigates legal, business, public policy, technological, communications and/or societal viewpoint. Plus the program includes children’s education programs.

Videos

Young teens are invited to learn how to assess the accuracy of information online that they encounter. and They will learn about the quality of that information and how it affects the quality of their decisions.