raising children in a digital age - cavendish school
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Raising Children in a Digital Age
Dr Bex Lewis, Director, Digital Fingerprint; Senior Lecturer in Digital Marketing, Manchester Metropolitan University
Cavendish School, West Didsbury
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@drbexl
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16/05/17
http://bit.ly/CavendishRCIDA
Published by Lion HudsonFebruary 2014
*Italian (Nov 2015)*Chinese (awaiting)
http://j.mp/RCIDAge
Responsibility?
“Social media companies have a responsibility to protect people who use their technology, and we want to hear what more can be done to keep children and young people safe from online threats.This Government is determined to make Britain the safest country in the world for young people to be online, and to make sure that everyone – including the public sector, technology firms, parents and children themselves – is playing their part.”Karen Bradey MP, Government Internet Safety Strategy, April 2017http://drbexl.co.uk/2017/04/20/media-discussing-responsibility-social-media-companies-re-safer-internet-ucbmedia/
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http://drbexl.co.uk/tag/sid2014http://drbexl.co.uk/tag/sid2015http://drbexl.co.uk/tag/sid2016http://drbexl.co.uk/tag/sid2017/
http://drbexl.co.uk/press/
Understand!
“If we want resilient kids we need to understand what young people’s experiences are online, listen to their concerns, and intervene with their best interests in mind.”Jane Tallim, Co-Executive Director, MediaSmarts, Canada, January 2015 http://mediasmarts.ca/research-policy/young-canadians-wired-world-phase-iii-trends-recommendations
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All those negative
headlines…
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Is it the end of the world
as we know it?
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“Even though in practice, face-to-face communication can, of course, be angry, negligent, resistant, deceitful and inflexible, somehow it remains the ideal against which mediated communication is judged as flawed.”
Prof Sonia Livingstone, Children and the Internet: Great Expectations and Challenging Realities. 2009, p26
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Digital Culture: Why it matters
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Children in
Digital Culture
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Communicate, Communicate,
Communicate
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https://www.verywell.com/social-media-contract-for-tweens-and-parents-3288520
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/janell-burley-hofmann/iphone-contract-from-your-mom_b_2372493.html
Practical Advice:
Privacy &
Permanency
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To monitor or
not to monitor?
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Identity, Values and
Authenticity
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Just because you
can … doesn’t mean
you should!
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Who sees this?
1. Parents2. ‘Kids’3. Newspaper4. Enemy
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Human Beings
at machines,
not “are
machines”
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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/28/well/mind/how-to-be-mindful-with-facebook.html?smid=fb-share
Relationships (Online)
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The BulliedThe BullyThe Bystander
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothingQuote commonly (and probably erroneously) attributed to Edmund Burke
Digital Allies
BBC: Be Smart
“We’re doing this because all the research tells us that children and young people respond best to their peers. Whether they’re under pressure to take part in a dangerous prank, or to victimise someone, or whether they’re an online bully themselves, stories told by other young people are most likely to resonate and to help them cope, or change their behaviour.”Andrew Tomlinson, Executive Producer, Media Literacy, BBC Learning
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/aboutthebbc/entries/f1f50247-4902-4998-bf58-3e2d3c007587
Increased time spent online will most likely increase exposure to negative experiences – but also the positive opportunities. Nancy Willard, a cyberbullying expert, calls for us to work on the “understanding that the vast majority of young people want to make good choices, do not want to be harmed, and do not want to see their friends or others harmed”. We can’t control their whole environment, online or offline, so parents need to give their children the capability to deal with problems as they come across them.
Raising Children in a Digital Age, p.63
Stranger Danger
2012/13550 UK Abductions Less than 1/5: unknown
“On average 11 children are killed by a stranger each year in the UK … there are more than 11 million children in the UK” (Netmums)
Increasingly Mobile
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Snapchat Streaks
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http://drbexl.co.uk/2017/04/13/radio-discussing-snapchat-streaks-bbc5live/
Sex Talk
(Porn, Pedophilia and Sexting)
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Keeping within the Law
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Health Works
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Physical Setup
‘Nutritional advice’
Brain Changes
Multitasking
Conversational Ability
Couch Potatoes
The core signs of addiction
• The activity becomes the most important thing in a person’s life.
• Moods change in accordance with the activity.
• Continually higher doses of an activity are required to achieve the original sensations.
• Withdrawal symptoms such as anxiety and depression are experienced when the activity is stopped.
• Increasing conflict occurs with those in the closest social circle.
• There is a tendency to return to the activity after periods of control (relapse).
• The “sunk cost” fallacy is experienced: not wanting to abandon something after so much time has been sunk into it.
Raising Children in a Digital Age, p168
Listen: http://bit.ly/children-womans-hour; http://bit.ly/premier-deloitte-addiction
Screen time and
family dynamics
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• Passive consumption: watching TV, reading, and listening to music• Interactive consumption: playing games and browsing the Internet• Communication: video-chatting and using social media• Content creation: using devices to make digital art or musichttp://bit.ly/common-sense-screentime
Gaming
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http://bit.ly/children-gaming; http://bit.ly/pokemon-children-churches
Does digital offer
(life) opportunities?
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Progressive responsibility
• Do it for them• Do it with them• Watch while they do it• Let them do it for themselves.
Will Taylor
Grandparents, teachers
& youth leaders
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Looking to the future
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So… questions?
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