Digital technology, social media and online gaming are now a universal part of childhood. But are you worried about what your children might be doing online? What they might come across by accident? Or who might try to contact them through Facebook or Twitter? Whether you’re a parent, grandparent, or carer, you will want children to get the most out of new technology. But how do you tread the tightrope of keeping them safe online, whilst enabling them to seize and benefit from the wealth of opportunities on offer? This free event will give you the chance to find some answers. Dr Bex Lewis is keen to ensure that children are able to seize, celebrate and enjoy the wealth of opportunities offered by the Internet, Twitter, Facebook, blogging and other new technology – safely. In this lively and engaging session she will draw upon her new book Raising Children in a Digital Age, providing an overview of the digital spaces, and practical tips, advice and information to give you confidence to keep your children safe online. Internet scare stories and distorted statistics will be put in context as clear and sensible guidelines are provided, and suggestions for conversation starters highlighted. This event is free to attend. No ticket is required. Please sign up so we know how many cups of tea to make - tea & coffee will be available. This event is repeated on Saturday, 17 May at 10.30am. Creche facilities are available on Saturday. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/parenting-in-a-digital-age-tickets-10619343743

1. Dr Bex Lewis
Director, Digital Fingerprint
CODEC, Durham University
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
http://j.mp/parenting-digital-age

2. Let’s “tweet” each other…

3. Published by
Lion Hudson
February 2014

5. Feel the Fear….

6. The End is Nigh!

7. Digital Culture: It Matters!

8. http://youtu.be/zxpa4dNVd3c

9. The Toolbox

10. Are they digital natives?

11. Communicat
e
Communicat
e
Communicat
e

12. Is privacy dead?

13. To monitor
or not to
monitor?

15. Just because you can …
doesn’t mean you should!

16. H.A.L.T.
If you are Hungry, Angry,
Lonely or Tired, step away
from the keyboard/keypad
and deal with that issue first.
http://redcatco.com/communication/stop-posting-social-media/

17. Relationships…

18. The Bullied
The Bully
The Bystander

19. The Bullied

20. Signs specific to cyber-bullying?
• Long hours on the computer
• Secretive Internet use
• Screen minimization
• Refusing to log on or answer phone
• Extreme possessiveness of phone, to
which constant nervous looks are
given.

21. 5.5  71

22. Emotionally:
• No shame: not their fault
• Don’t threaten their online access
• Spend extra time together: time
for communication
• Nurture self-confidence

23. Practically:
• Don’t respond
• Keep copies of messages as ‘proof’
• Understand how to ‘block’ accounts
• Talk to child re contacting school
• Think hard before talking to parents of
bully
• Request webhost to remove
• Get phone number blocked

24. The Bully

25. Disinhibition
The bully doesn’t see the
distress that they cause, feels
safe from capture, and
protected by the technology,
able to say things that they
would never say offline.

26. Any solutions?
• Remove their Internet and mobile privileges
(for a fixed period)
• Get them to write an essay on the dangers of
cyberbullying
• Assign him/her a book to read about
cyberbullying
• Assign him/her to community service or other
time-consuming activity.
• Encourage them to apologise and take
responsibility

27. The Bystander(s)

28. The only thing
necessary for the
triumph of evil is that
good men do nothing
Quote commonly (and probably erroneously)
attributed to Edmund Burke

29. Digital Allies

30. Ferguson, a professor from Texas A&M
who researches technologies’ effects
on human behaviour:
“Youth today are the least
aggressive, most civically
involved, and mentally well in
several generations .”
‘Imagining the Internet: Millennials will benefit and suffer due to their hyperconnected lives’, Pew Research Center,
http://www.pewinternet.org/~/media//Files/Reports/2012/PIP_Future_of_Internet_2012_Young_brains_PDF.pdf, 29/02/12

31. Stranger Danger

32. Increasingly
Mobile

33. • No surprise, then, that
Facebook is no longer
a place for uninhibited
status updates about
pub antics, but an
obligatory
communication tool that
younger people
maintain because
everyone else does.
• All the fun stuff is
happening elsewhere.
On their mobiles.
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/nov/10/teenagers-messenger-apps-facebook-exodus

34. Sex Talk (Porn,
Pedophilia and
Sexting)

35. Keeping within the Law

36. Physical Setup
Brain Changes
Addiction
Multitasking
Conversational Ability
Couch Potatoes

37. Screen time and family dynamics

38. Gaming

39. Does the digital age offer life
opportunities?

40. Can social media be positive?
• Wide range of information
• Increased connectivity and collaboration
• Educational benefits
• Global nature of online
• New creative opportunities
• Learning criticality
• Increased accessibility for those with disabilities

41. Do it for them
Do it with them
Watch while they do it
Let them do it for themselves.

42. Grandparents
(teachers,
youth
leaders)

43. Looking to the future

44. @drbexl @digitalfprint @bigbible
http://j.mp/parenting-digital-age
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