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PEACE OF MIND FOR FAMILIES ONLINE

P E A C E O F M I N D F O R F A M I L I E S O N L I N E

Marsali Hancock, President


Agenda

• What we need to know about youth in the digital age

• What parents need to know• Strategies for schools: Generation Safe• Keep current: parents, youth, educators


Defining Success

Success = Youth become full digital citizens: EthicalResponsibleResilient


Technical Social

PC Viruses

Identity Theft

Adware

Activity Tracking

OnlineReputation

BOTs

Data AggregationMalware

Cyberbullying/ Harassment

Ad Tracking/ Targeting

Phishing

Slide Credit: Microsoft's Computing Safety Index


Strategies for Parents

3 KEEPs for Parents™

Keep Current

Keep Communicating

Keep Checking


Managing Digital Interactions

RelationshipsReputationResiliency


Relationships Appropriate Contact

Appropriate Content

Appropriate Conduct



Reputation



• Inappropriate Contact:– 7% of 12-14 year olds were asked for nude photos of

themselves (Rochester Institute of Technology, 2008)

– One-third of teens who have met someone online claim to eventually have intimate relations (Subramanyam, Radha, The N, 2005)

Challenges to Safety


• Dangerous Content:– Violence– Pornography– Promoting self-destructive behaviors like anorexia or

cutting– Hate speech

Challenges to Safety


• Elementary students: kids who play more violent video games become:– more verbally aggressive– more physically aggressive– less helpful to others.

(Anderson, Douglas, Buckley, 2007)

• In forty minutes of gaming, a youth may witness 180 acts of aggression.

• Over 50% of video games reward aggression. (Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, 2003)

Violence


• Teen boys report that they use pornography for sex education.

(Nielsen Online, 2008)

• Many girls say they worry about how they look because of the standard set by porn. (Ibid.)

• 2/3 of divorce lawyers say the Internet or pornography played a significant role in the divorces they handled.

Realities of Pornography


Resiliency—Strategies for Helping

• Manage exposure to hurtful, unhealthy, or traumatic content• Manage privacy (settings and apps)• Secure data and devices.


Resiliency—Manage Exposure

• Communicate your expectations for content.• Use filters and parental controls.• Teach strategies—how to react.


Tools to Manage Media

Keep Checking

• Filters: K9, Norton Family

• Mobil phone settings and limits• AT&T's Smart Limits• T-Mobile's Web Guard• Verizon's Chaperone and Content Filtering• Sprint Nextel's Restricted/Unrestricted Web Access• Alltel's Axcess Web

http://www.icarecoalition.org/attssmartlimits.asp

http://www.icarecoalition.org/tmobileswebguard.asp

http://www.icarecoalition.org/verizonschaperoneandcontentfiltering.asp

http://www.icarecoalition.org/sprintnextelsrestrictedun.asp

http://www.icarecoalition.org/alltelsaxcessweb.asp


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Generation Safe Overview

Resource Library and Professional Development

360 Self Assessment Incident Response Tool & Flowchart (IRT)


Stakeholder drop down


360 SELF ASSESSMENT


https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik=6d0f330096&view=att&th=12d55952e8af2709&attid=0.1&disp=inline&zw


360 of the Digital Citizenship Improvement Actions


School Reports District Reports


INCIDENT RESPONSE TOOL (IRT)& FLOWCHART


Learning Modules


Inspiring Change in School Culture

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.”

Margaret MeadAcademic Anthropologist

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