The document discusses how children interact online in today's digital world. It notes that children are "digital natives" who are more fluent with technology than their parents. It outlines some of the popular tools children use to connect, share content, and collaborate online. These include social networks, blogs, virtual worlds, and games. It emphasizes that online and offline worlds are now intertwined for children. The document concludes by presenting different approaches parents can take to help children stay safe online, including using filters and monitoring tools, while also maintaining open communication and trust.

1. What do our children get up to online? [and how to cope with that]

2. It’s a brave new world out there

4. THE NEW LANDSCAPE

5. DIGITAL NATIVES NETWORKS SPEED

6. In the “real” world …

7. Immigrants arrive

9. With little understanding of native cultures and tongues (often if not always)

11. Their children become “scouts”

13. “ They add bangers and mash and fish and chips to sag gosht and parathas, not noticing the joins” [ Ziauddin Sardar ]

15. The same is true of the ‘digital’ world

16. If you were born before 1980, you’re a digital immigrant (however smart your mobile phone is)

17. If not, you’re a digital native [developed world]

19. Problem 1 : You will never be as fluent as your kids

20. Problem 2: Your children don’t see the on/offline divide

21. DIGITAL NATIVES NETWORKS SPEED

22. Family communications used to be ‘decentralised’

23. Now, they’re distributed. Communication is Peer to Peer.

24. Problem 3: You have little control over how or with whom children communicate

25. DIGITAL NATIVES NETWORKS SPEED

26. More bad news (sorry)

27. The tools children use are changing quickly, continually and globally

28. Problem 4: there’s no catching up

29. WHAT CHILDREN DO ONLINE

30. Here’s a small set of popular tools that your children might play with

32. Trying to understand all of them is a mug’s game

33. Broad brush categories + Core principles = Begin to understand threats

34. 3 broad brush categories Connections Content Co-creation

35. CONNECTIONS CONTENT CO-CREATION

36. There are 2 types of connection: immediate and over time

37. Immediate connections

38. Can be 1 to 1 (like a phone call)

39. Can be 1 to many (like a group chat)

40. Can be done in lots of ways (phone, IM, Skype, Yahoo, Google, chat rooms, jargoncity, confusetheparents.com)

41. All share some basic grammar

42. IDENTITY PRESENCE OPENNESS

43. Point 1 : Presence whenever you’re online, you can see who else is online

44. Point 2 : Openness anyone can connect to you, but you can listen to or ignore anyone you like

45. Point 3 : Identity When everyone can wear a mask, trust becomes critical

46. Connections over time

47. Social Networks Last.fm , Bebo , Facebook

49. Point 4 : Trails As you move round online, you leave trails, and you personalise these.

50. Point 5 : Communities Online communities are quick to set up & quick to join

51. Point 6 : Trust Trust is found through network proximity & friend of a friend approaches [FOAF].

52. CONNECTIONS CONTENT CO-CREATION

54. Walt Disney “ripped, mixed, and burnt” the Brothers Grimm

56. Point 7 : Creativity Natives have more ways of making and publishing more than ever before. Not all of it ‘legal’

57. CONNECTIONS CONTENT CO-CREATION

58. Think Playstation or Gamecube. Think vapid expressions.

59. Think again.

66. Comedians have done gigs in Second Life

67. People have become real world millionaires selling virtual real estate

68. Point 8 : Virtual is dead Online and offline are so intertwined for natives that the distinction is basically not there.

69. HOW TO KEEP THEM SAFE

70. 3 possible approaches (and just like the real world none, sadly, are guaranteed)

71. Total Lockdown  Stop your children from communicating online.

72. Filter  build some prevention measure into the software you use

73. Trust  build some prevention measures into the software and focus on the parent-child bond

75. Piers Young http://www.monkeymagic.net