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2007 Media Awareness Network MediaSmarts 2015 Online Safety 2.0

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2007 Media Awareness Network MediaSmarts 2015 Vision To ensure children and youth have the critical thinking skills to engage with media as active and informed digital citizens.

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2007 Media Awareness Network MediaSmarts 2015 Approximately 12,000 students in grades 4-11 Funded by Government of Canada Phase I 2000/2001 Phase II 2004/2005 Phase III 2011/2013 Young Canadians Research (YCWW) 1999-2013

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2007 Media Awareness Network MediaSmarts 2015 We need to change our focus from protecting kids to empowering them through digital literacy and digital citizenship skills.

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2007 Media Awareness Network MediaSmarts 2015 Scare tactics All the time, every year they have this big meeting 'You don't know what this means! You could make people commit suicide!' And they have these people 'I used to be cyberbullied, it was so sad,' Every year it's the same presentation It's just annoying... (11-12, Calgary) Young Canadians in a Wired World, Phase III: Talking to Youth and Parents About Life Online Whats wrong with safety?

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2007 Media Awareness Network MediaSmarts 2015 Surveillance .in a classroom theres a lot of trust that would be broken if the students were knowingly recording the conversations of their peers and posting them online. Young Canadians in a Wired World, Phase III: Teachers Perspectives Whats wrong with safety?

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2007 Media Awareness Network MediaSmarts 2015 Online filters vs. letting students make mistakes it even took me a few minutes before I realized I was on a website that was sympathetic to the Nazis. It was phenomenally written, in evil ways. It cloaked the true racist and hatred messages under prose. Whats wrong with safety?

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2007 Media Awareness Network MediaSmarts 2015 Percentage Yes Have you ever had trouble finding something you needed for school work on a school computer because it was blocked? 36% Can you access sites at your school even if your school has blocked them? 25% Whats wrong with safety? Blocking sites at school

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2007 Media Awareness Network MediaSmarts 2015 What do we mean by digital literacy?

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2007 Media Awareness Network MediaSmarts 2015 Holistic digital literacy education

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Ethics and Empathy Privacy and Security Community Engagement Digital Health Consumer Awareness Finding and Verifying Cyberbullying; sharing other peoples content; SEL skills; empathy Sharing your own content; data privacy; cybersecurity; digital footprint Influencing positive social norms; understanding your rights; understanding channels for engagement and activism Life balance; managing screen time; handling identity and sexuality, mental health, body image issues; recognizing and maintaining healthy relationships Recognizing and decoding advertising; understanding Terms of Service and Privacy Policies; knowing means of redress Search and authentication skills

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What do we mean by digital citizenship?

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Its not like all of a sudden you hit 18, and now you can have autonomy. Students do not learn to make good choices by being told what to do and follow instructions they have to be given the opportunity to make bad choices as often as good choices. And they need adults to be the saving, caring allies that we need to be to help them make [good choices], to learn from their mistakes. What do we mean by digital citizenship?

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Opinions about online safety Digital Health

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High percentages of boys (90%) and girls (89%) agree with the statement I know how to protect myself online Digital Health

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Most students are careful with their contact information such as their home address or email address. Digital Health

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Sexting: Students with Cellphone access, Grades 7-11 only Percentage Yes 1a Have you ever sent a sext of yourself to someone?8% 1b If you answered Yes, did they forward it to anyone else?24% Digital Health

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Mean and Cruel Behaviours 37% of students say they have been recipients of mean and cruel behaviour online that has made them feel badly 23% of students say they have been mean or cruel to someone online Ethics and Empathy

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Learning About Cyberbullying From my parent(s) From teachers From friends From reading about it online I have never learned about this I have learned about how to deal with cyberbullying43%62%15%13%14% Ethics and Empathy

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47% of students have household rules about treating others with respect online Having this rule correlates with lower levels of mean/cruel and threatening behaviour Ethics and Empathy

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62% report their schools have rules or policies for cyberbullying But there is little correlation between having school rules and engaged in or been a recipient of mean, cruel or threatening online behaviour. Ethics and Empathy

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Sexting: Students with Cellphone access, Grades 7-11 only Percentage Yes 2a Has someone ever sent you a sexy, nude or partially nude photo (a sext) of themselves? 24% 2b If you answered Yes, did you forward it to anyone else? 15% 3 Have you ever received a sext that was forwarded to you by someone else? 21% Ethics and Empathy

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Reasons? Just Joking 55% 48% person said something mean about them first 32% person said something mean about their friends first Ethics and Empathy

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Empathy cant be taught, but it can be caught. Mary Gordon, founder of Roots of Empathy Ethics and Empathy

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When youth are made aware of how uncommon bullying is, rates drop. Many problematic behaviours bullying, sexting, plagiarism, etc. are less common than students think. Community Engagement

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Digital citizens understand and exercise their rights: As citizens of a state As members of a community As consumers As human beings Community Engagement

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Canadians aged 15 to 24 have a higher rate of volunteerism (55%) than any other age group. (Statistics Canada, 2005) Youth voting rates are down but their interest in political issues is strong (Statistics Canada, 2005) 35% of grade 4-11 students have joined or supported an activist group online (YCWW, 2014) Community Engagement

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Youth are participating in democracy through new modes of engagement online. We may be seeing a resurgence in civic engagement through new media. Online social networks may be the new civic organizations of the 21 st century. Community Engagement

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New media offer youth participatory opportunities through media production and distribution, social networking, blogs, forums or text messaging. Community Engagement

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Digital citizens understand and exercise their rights as members of a community: Participation Shaping of norms and values Regulation of behaviour Community Engagement

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75% of players witnessed another player asking the aggressor to stop 85% report other players being generous or helpful when playing (Pew, 2008) One-quarter of Canadian students say they have harassed someone in an online game (YCWW, 2014) Community Engagement

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Digital citizens understand and exercise their human rights: Freedom from discrimination Right to be heard UN Convention on the Rights of the Child Community Engagement

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78% of students have seen racist or sexist things online. 6 out of 10 students report seeing this on a regular basis. Community Engagement

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Giving a voice to youth is critical to the development of informed and engaged future citizens in a democracy. Community Engagement

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Digital citizens understand and exercise their rights as consumers: Contract rights Mechanisms for redress Applying consumer pressure Consumer Awareness

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65% of students have never had a privacy policy or terms of reference explained to them 68% of students think that if a website has a privacy policy, it will not share their data Consumer Awareness

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Many youth are already making good choices online and are using digital media in pro-active ways. .we want to build on that, and more!

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2007 Media Awareness Network MediaSmarts programs: Digital literacy games

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2007 Media Awareness Network MediaSmarts 2015 Raising ETHICAL KIDS For a Networked World

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2007 Media Awareness Network MediaSmarts 2015

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2007 Media Awareness Network MediaSmarts 2015 This workshop has been produced by mediasmarts.ca