parenting the net generation - preview version
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Designed for community leaders, Parenting the Net Generation addresses family interests and concerns on issues that arise when young people go online. The workshop touches briefly on many key Internet issues including safety, privacy, marketing, ethics and cyberbullying, and evaluation of online information.TRANSCRIPT
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Vision: To ensure children and youth possess
the necessary critical thinking skills and tools
to understand and actively engage with media
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Parenting the Net Generation Presentation1.Kids’ Online
Activities
2.Safety Issues
3.Online Marketing
4.Credibility of Online Information
5.Strategies for Safe, Wise and Responsible Use
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Kids’ Online Activities
Kids need to bring critical thinking to all information, including: television, movies, video games, music, magazines, advertising and the Internet
What is media education and why do young people need it?
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Kids’ Online Activities
Young Canadians are a highly-connected generation:
half of teens have computers in their bedrooms
tweens use the Internet for two hours daily
teens use it for three hours
one-third of youth play games online
two-thirds of girls use the Internet primarily for socializing
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Kids’ Online Activities
The Internet is not another world – it’s just another space where kids live their daily lives
Today’s wired kid is a social one, connecting with friends and making new ones
Kids who spend more time online are more confident about their social abilities
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Friends are always accessible through e-mail, instant messaging, blogs, chat rooms and cell phones
Everyone is equal on the Internet: children who areshy can develop relationships with peers online
Online communities encourage the developmentof real-world social skills and values
Safety Issues
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InteractivitySafety Issues
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InteractivitySafety Issues
Most IM software allows kids to block people they don’t know
Review contact lists for strangers
Use the “Keep ahistory of myconversations”option
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InteractivitySafety Issues
Webcams often come built in to computers
Stand-alone webcams can cost as little as $20
Skype allows users to call any other Skype user in the world for free
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InteractivitySafety Issues
Keep webcams out of kids’ rooms
Kids should:
close the lens cap or turn camera off when not in use
never use a webcam with strangers
never do anything they wouldn’t want the entire world to see
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InteractivitySafety Issues
45% of teens say a cell phone is essential to their daily lives
42% say they can write text messages blindfolded
40% say they would diewithout their cell phones
20% say they have sent orposted nude or semi-nude pictures of themselves (“sexting”)
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InteractivitySafety Issues
59% of kids pretend to besomeone else online
28% do so because theywant to see what it wouldbe like to be older
23% want to flirt with older people
Kids use the Internet to experiment with their identity:
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InteractivitySafety Issues
Creating Identities on Social Networking Sites
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InteractivitySafety Issues
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InteractivitySafety Issues
On sites like MySpace, status comes from having thousands of “friends” view your profile
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InteractivitySafety Issues
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InteractivitySafety Issues
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InteractivitySafety Issues
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InteractivitySafety Issues
Virtual Worlds
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InteractivitySafety Issues
online predators rarely misrepresent their age or their motives
youth, 13-15, involved in risky behaviours (talking with strangers, flirting, posting intimate information) are most at risk
majority of solicitations received from other youth (under 21)
Research on online predation shows:
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CyberbullyingSafety Issues
Impact of cyberbullying can be more devastating than real-world bullying:
the person often doesn’t know who is bullying them
many people can covertly witness and join in the bullying
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CyberbullyingSafety Issues
half of students report being bullied online (University of Toronto, 2008)
reasons for being harassed online include physical appearance, ability and/or sexual orientation (Shariff, 2008)
81% report that cyberbullying has become worse since the previous year (Shariff, 2008)
Prevalence of cyberbullying among students:
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CyberbullyingSafety Issues
“Technology doesn’t provide tangible feedback
about the consequences of actions on others.”
(Willard, 2000) The lack of non-verbal visual cues makes it difficult to gauge how actions are being received by others
Building empathy is key to promoting pro-social behaviours in youth
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CyberbullyingSafety Issues
“Technology allows us to be invisible or anonymous.”
(Willard, 2000)If a person can’t be identified with an action, then feelings of accountability are diminished
68% of students in Grades 6 and 7 who have been cyberbullied know the identity of the perpetrator (University of Toronto, 2008)
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