Webwise Parents

Marcie Lewis | Grade 4 Teacher

Agenda
Childrens Use of Digital Media Strategies For Promoting Safe, Responsible, and Respectful Choices Tips and Tricks for Safe Use of Digital Media

Childrens Use of Digital Media

In 2013, childrens access to mobile media devices is dramatically higher than in 2011. (Source: Zero to Eight) Kids are multi-media taskers - cramming 8 hours of media exposure into 5 hours by using more than one form of digital media at a time. (Source: Generation M2) Around age 8, children shift from the television as their main source of digital media to spending more time exploring other forms of digital media (gaming systems, tablets) (Source: Always Connected)

Digital Tattoo

Digital Citizenship

Strategies For Promoting Safe, Responsible, and Respectful Choices

We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us - Marshall McLuhan

Discover the Internet with Your Children

Home Agreements
Discuss when and for how long it is acceptable for your child to use the digital media Agree how to treat personal information (name, address, telephone, e-mail). Discuss how to behave towards others when gaming, chatting, e-mailing or messaging (THINK acronym) Agree what type of sites and activities are OK or not OK in our family. Develop a plan for dealing with a sticky situation

Monitor Usage
Proximity History Passwords Model Appropriate Usage

Tips and Tricks

If we teach today, how we taught yesterday, we rob our children of tomorrow. - John Dewey

Google Safe Search and YouTube Safe Mode

- Opt-In settings - Filters search results - No filter is 100% accurate - Lock setting

Privacy Settings
- Complex and often changing - Need to constantly monitor - Default often public

Common Sense Media

- Independent rating and review system for digital media (movies, games, apps, websites, TV shows, books, music) - Age-based system - Research to make informed-decisions about online activity - http://www.commonsensemedia.org/

Family Tips Sheets

http://www.commonsensemedia.org/educators/educate-families/tip-sheets

Research and Resources

Zero to Eight: Childrens Media Use in America Zero To Eight: Childrens Media Use in America 2013 American Academy of Pediatrics: Media and Children Generation M2: Media in the Lives of 8- to 18-Year Olds (2010) Google Family Safety Centre Turning on Safe Mode in YouTube Facebook - Safety for Parents Always Connected: The new digital media habits of young children (2011)