Parenting in the Digital World

Holly LaraTechnology Integration Specialist

Charles Wright Academy

Sam HarrisMiddle School LibrarianCharles Wright Academy

Overview

• Presenter Introductions• Agenda:

– Digital Citizenship– Ripped from the Headlines!– Myths vs. Reality

• Digital Footprints• Teens and Privacy• Bullying Prevention: What really works.

– The Importance of Parents

What is Digital Citizenship?

Being a good digital citizen means using technology...

• safely • responsibly• critically• proactively for the

good of society

Ripped from the headlines!

Ripped from the headlines!

Ripped from the headlines!

Ripped from the headlines!

Ripped from the headlines!

Ripped from the headlines!

FACT:

We all have a digital foot print.

92 % of children now have an online

footprint before they are 2 years old.

Source: Byrne, Ciara. “Generation Tech: More Kids Can Play A Computer Game than Ride a Bike.” Venture Beat, 19 Jan. 2011.

What's your digital footprint?    

 Image created with Tagxedo using the definition of "digital

footprint" from Wikipedia

Get to know your footprint!•Spezify•Personas•Google yourself

Contribute to your footprint strategically.

MYTH:

Young people don’t care about privacy.

What do young people think?    

Source: Social Privacy in Network Publics: Teens' Attitudes, Practices, and Strategies. danah boyd and Alice Marwick, Microsoft Research, 2011.

Every teenager wants privacy, every single last one of them, whether they

tell you or not, wants privacy...And just because teenagers use internet sites

to connect to other people doesn't mean they don't care about their

privacy." - Waffles, 17, NC

More than half of online teens have decided not to post

something online because they were concerned it might reflect

badly on them in the future.

Source: Teens, Kindness and Cruelty on Social Network Sites. Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project. 9 Nov. 2011.

62% of teens restrict their profiles to be viewable only

by friends.

However…

One in three online

teens has shared a

password with a friend

or significant other.

Teens who have negative experiences are more likely to have public profiles.

MYTH:

Kids are naturals at technology. They are “digital natives” and unlike

me, they just, 'get it.'

The Reality...    

    

 Confidence ≠ Wisdom  

Our Favorite Teachable Moments:

• YouTube to MP3 Converter• Craigslist: Is it safe? • Oops…I sent the text where? • How long has YouTube been around? • Do colleges REALLY look at my digital

footprint?• Mockipedia

Bullying Prevention: What Really Works

What’s the reality?– Inconsistent statistics lead to misconceptions.– “Scary” statistics may increase bullying

behavior.– Accurate facts and information decrease

bullying.

80% of young

people HAVE

NEVER engaged

in cyberbullying.

Bullying Prevention: What Really Works

Talk with kids…and start young.

Language choice

matters.

It takes a village.

One size

does not fit

all.

Empower witnesses

and bystanders.

Parents matter

58% of teens say their

parents have the greatest

influence on what they think

is appropriate or

inappropriate behavior on a

cell phone or online.

Parents Matter: Our Top 5 Tips

1. Talk to your kids about the impact of technology and media on their lives.

Parents Matter: Our Top 5 Tips

2. Create tech time and space in your home.

Parents Matter: Our Top 5 Tips

3. Make using technology fun and get involved in their world.

Parents Matter: Our Top 5 Tips

4. Encourage digital citizenship

Parents Matter: Our Top 5 Tips

5. Acknowledge the importance of technology in the lives of young people.

Did you know...

"...fully 65 percent of today’s grade-school kids may end up doing work that

hasn’t been invented yet.”

 Source: Cathy N. Davidson, "Education Needs a Digital Upgrade" • Co-director of the annual MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning

Competitions.• Author of Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the

Way We Live, Work, and Learn.