presentation by Adam Walker Cleaveland

Centerville Presbyterian ChurchFremont, CAMarch 13, 2011

Me

• Husband

• Pastor

• Blogger

• Designer

• Social Media Consultant

• Gadget Geek

Technology Wonders & Worries

This will help frame our conversation this afternoon.

A Day In the Life...

Does this sound familiar...?

We certainly are a Digital Nation.

• Frontline’s “Digital Nation”http://video.pbs.org/video/140

• This is the water we’re swimming in - it’s not going away

• Technology changes at a rapid pace

• This isn’t a new conversation

• Technology expands our world

• Use & moderation will look different for everyone

• Nothing should get in the way of our calling to love God & love others, whether that’s technology or anything else

The air we breathe...

Web 1.0 & Web 2.0: What’s the difference?

• Static content

• Enhancing knowledge

• Information download

• Little to no interaction

• Users are passive recipients of information

• FINDING

• Dynamically generated content

• Enhancing creativity

• Information sharing

• Collaboration

• Users are required to engage with information, create it

• CREATING & SHARING

The World is Obsessed with Facebook

• “The World Is Obsessed With Facebook” Videohttp://vimeo.com/20198465

Takeaways...

• Author Daniel Pink says that parents must “prepare our children for their future, not our past.” Technology is awesome - enjoy it and prepare them!

• Vibrate: OFF

• You are the parents; you still get to make the rules.

• Be aware - use common sense.

• Everyone’s family will be different.

Wonders: Creativity, Collaboration & Connection

Creativity & Collaboration...

Pomplamoose covers Beyonce’s “Single Ladies”

• Pomplamoose: http://www.youtube.com/PomplamooseMusic

• Single Ladies cover: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIr8-f2OWhs

Connection...

• New communities are formed and new friends are made

• Deeper connection are made within already existing communities

• Kids get connected with the world: Iran, Egypt, Japan...

• Belonging

Worries: Privacy, Safety & Too Much?

Privacy...

• Young people often do not get this

• Once it’s out there, it’s out there

• Must know & understand privacy settings on social networks

• Some great resources on your handouts

• Privacy connected to safety

Watch out for...

• Formspring: cool website that spirals downward VERY quickly

• Chatroulette and its clones (zupyo, Omegle, Flirtspin, etc): online video chat, essentially a way to accidentally stumble across pornography

Just too much...?

• Facebook friends with people they don’t even know

• Pre-school reunion???

• Relationships used to last for seasons, not we carry them all with us (and the online photo galleries to prove it)

• Always connected

• Smartphones in bedrooms?81.5% said YES

So where do we go from here?

#1: Enjoy it!

• We live in an EXCITING time

• Embrace the awesomeness

• Use technology for good

• Connect with and help out other people

• Prepare your children for their future, not your past...

• Have fun with your kids - start a blog, make a video, post it on YouTube, get creative!

#2: Vibrate: OFF

• Spiritual direction

• Find times when you and your kids are “unavailable”

• There was life before smartphones and handheld gaming devices

• Help your family connect with God (whatever that looks like for you) and not with others for periods of time

#3: You make rules

• You are the parents and you STILL get to make the rules

• Even if you don’t understand the technology, you are in control.

• It also means you have a responsibility to learn and stay up-to-date on the tech your kids are using

#4: Be aware.

• Work on your awareness

• Use common sense

• You will know - or your spouse/partner/child will let you know

• Notice when it’s becoming a distraction to you or your child’s spirituality and connection with God

#5: Everyone will be different...

• Get advice from friends, see what has worked for others

• But in the end, find what works for YOUR family and be okay with that

• Everyone will be different

Questions & Responses

Sources

• Nielsen report: How Teens Use Mediahttp://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/reports/nielsen_howteensusemedia_june09.pdf

• Frontline’s “Digital Nation”http://video.pbs.org/video/140

• “The World Is Obsessed With Facebook” Videohttp://vimeo.com/20198465

• Pomplamoose: http://www.youtube.com/PomplamooseMusic

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