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© 2009 Media Awareness Network
www.media-awareness.ca
Vision: To ensure children and youth possess
the necessary critical thinking skills and tools
to understand and actively engage with media
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Parenting the Net Generation Presentation1.Kids’ Online
Activities
2.Safety Issues
3.Online Marketing
4.Credibility of Online Information
5.Strategies for Safe, Wise and Responsible Use
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Kids’ Online Activities
Kids need to bring critical thinking to all information, including: television, movies, video games, music, magazines, advertising and the Internet
What is media education and why do young people need it?
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Kids’ Online Activities
Young Canadians are a highly-connected generation:
half of teens have computers in their bedrooms
tweens use the Internet for two hours daily
teens use it for three hours
one-third of youth play games online
two-thirds of girls use the Internet primarily for socializing
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Kids’ Online Activities
The Internet is not another world – it’s just another space where kids live their daily lives
Today’s wired kid is a social one, connecting with friends and making new ones
Kids who spend more time online are more confident about their social abilities
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Friends are always accessible through e-mail, instant messaging, blogs, chat rooms and cell phones
Everyone is equal on the Internet: children who areshy can develop relationships with peers online
Online communities encourage the developmentof real-world social skills and values
Safety Issues
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InteractivitySafety Issues
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InteractivitySafety Issues
Most IM software allows kids to block people they don’t know
Review contact lists for strangers
Use the “Keep ahistory of myconversations”option
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InteractivitySafety Issues
Webcams often come built in to computers
Stand-alone webcams can cost as little as $20
Skype allows users to call any other Skype user in the world for free
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InteractivitySafety Issues
Keep webcams out of kids’ rooms
Kids should:
close the lens cap or turn camera off when not in use
never use a webcam with strangers
never do anything they wouldn’t want the entire world to see
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InteractivitySafety Issues
45% of teens say a cell phone is essential to their daily lives
42% say they can write text messages blindfolded
40% say they would diewithout their cell phones
20% say they have sent orposted nude or semi-nude pictures of themselves (“sexting”)
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InteractivitySafety Issues
59% of kids pretend to besomeone else online
28% do so because theywant to see what it wouldbe like to be older
23% want to flirt with older people
Kids use the Internet to experiment with their identity:
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InteractivitySafety Issues
Creating Identities on Social Networking Sites
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InteractivitySafety Issues
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InteractivitySafety Issues
On sites like MySpace, status comes from having thousands of “friends” view your profile
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InteractivitySafety Issues
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InteractivitySafety Issues
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InteractivitySafety Issues
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InteractivitySafety Issues
Virtual Worlds
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InteractivitySafety Issues
online predators rarely misrepresent their age or their motives
youth, 13-15, involved in risky behaviours (talking with strangers, flirting, posting intimate information) are most at risk
majority of solicitations received from other youth (under 21)
Research on online predation shows:
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CyberbullyingSafety Issues
Impact of cyberbullying can be more devastating than real-world bullying:
the person often doesn’t know who is bullying them
many people can covertly witness and join in the bullying
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CyberbullyingSafety Issues
half of students report being bullied online (University of Toronto, 2008)
reasons for being harassed online include physical appearance, ability and/or sexual orientation (Shariff, 2008)
81% report that cyberbullying has become worse since the previous year (Shariff, 2008)
Prevalence of cyberbullying among students:
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CyberbullyingSafety Issues
“Technology doesn’t provide tangible feedback
about the consequences of actions on others.”
(Willard, 2000) The lack of non-verbal visual cues makes it difficult to gauge how actions are being received by others
Building empathy is key to promoting pro-social behaviours in youth
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CyberbullyingSafety Issues
“Technology allows us to be invisible or anonymous.”
(Willard, 2000)If a person can’t be identified with an action, then feelings of accountability are diminished
68% of students in Grades 6 and 7 who have been cyberbullied know the identity of the perpetrator (University of Toronto, 2008)
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