pdf of Keynote presentation from 2009-10. We surveyed a large portion of our student body this year to compare data to the Kaiser Family Foundation media consumption study.
2. Welcome Our
CWA
• What would you like to discuss Understanding what new media and Survey
today? technology kids are using and creating
74%
Balancing my child's privacy with my desire to
Agenda oversee what they do with media and technology 56%
Knowing what other parents do when it comes to
• What kids are doing in the media and their families, and how to talk to my 44%
child about other families' rules
digital world Understanding how media use and creation
impacts kids' development
42%
• Parenting and privacy Navigating media rules and expectations
when it comes to play dates at other kids' 40%
• Hot Topics houses
Setting rules and expectations for my family's
• Cyberbullying media use
34%
Research around kids' digital lives 30%
• Sexting
Finding age-appropriate media for my family 22%
• Myths and Facts about Creating media as a family 20%
online solicitation Talking with my family about online behavior 16%
3. What are kids doing
in the digital world?
• We asked our MS students
If you use the Internet, which of these
things do you do online at least once a
week?
4. At least once a week
Our
Play online games 95 CWA
Visit social network site 96 Survey
Explore virtual worlds 17
Post videos, pictures or messages 36
Send IM 70
Video chat 38
Check/write email 137
Watch, listen to, or download videos and music 150
Search for info about personal interests 73
Seek info or do research for homework 132
Other 17
0 37.5 75.0 112.5 150.0
174 MS Students Surveyed
5. Have you done any of these things when
using the Internet or your cell phone?
Our
• 62% Bought music or ringtones from a site like iTunes CWA
Survey
• 40% Made a new friend
• 38% Posted pictures or videos of myself/others
• Concerns
• 26% Chatted, IM’ed, emailed, or communicated with people I
don’t know
• 13% Looked at stuff my parents wouldn’t want me to
• 12% Made fun of, harassed, or messed with someone
• 7% Shared or gave away my passwords
6. What are kids doing
in the digital world?
• Interests and trends vary and change
frequently
• Everything (and we mean everything)
asks you to set up a profile, account or
“my” area.
• Texting issues
7. Hours spent with media
• “The average young American now
spends practically every waking minute
— except for the time in school — using
a smart phone, computer, television or
other electronic device, according to a
new study from the Kaiser Family
Foundation.” (ages 8-18)
• our stats
8. On a typical SCHOOL DAY
(Monday-Friday)
Hours watching TV, movies, DVDs Hours listening to music on a mobile device
0 53 0 37
1 75 1 71
2 26 2 28
3 12 3 11
4+ 7 4+ 25
0 20 40 60 80 0 20 40 60 80
174 MS Students Surveyed
9. On a typical SCHOOL DAY
(Monday-Friday)
Hours playing video games Hours using a cell phone for talking or texting
0 88 0 57
1 48 1 50
2 19 2 26
3 10 3 17
4+ 6 4+ 23
0 22.5 45.0 67.5 90.0 0 15 30 45 60
174 MS Students Surveyed
10. On a typical SCHOOL DAY
(Monday-Friday)
Hours using the Internet for entertainment Hours using the Internet for homework/school
0 34 0 13
1 67 1 87
2 38 2 39
3 15 3 16
4+ 19 4+ 14
0 17.5 35.0 52.5 70.0 0 22.5 45.0 67.5 90.0
174 MS Students Surveyed
11. On a typical SCHOOL DAY
(Monday-Friday)
Hours reading magazines or books for entertainment (not for schoolwork)
0 50
1 68
2 27
3 17
4+ 9
0 17.5 35.0 52.5 70.0
174 MS Students Surveyed
12. What do we do?
• Strategies:
• Keep communication lines open
• Have conversations about choices
and consequences
• Take a “Tech Break”
• Studies show, children of parents
who set guidelines and limits use
media less frequently
13. What do we do?
• Suggestions:
• setting specific times for use of media
(cell phones, Internet access)
• Internet access only in shared family
spaces
• Cell phones charged in central space at
night
• Have conversations about texting
“manners”
14. Privacy and Parenting
• Where do you draw the line?
• Kids and long-term consequences...
their brains just don’t get it.
15. Social Networking
• Privacy settings in the media
• How do the Facebook changes affect
you and/or your kids?
16. Do you (does your child) use privacy settings
on your social networking account(s)?
21%
I Don’t 31%
Know I Don’t
Know
7% No
4% 65%
72% No
Yes
Yes
Student Response Parent Response
17. How often do you look at your child’s
social networking profile page(s)?
Very frequently
Only occasionally
Just once when he or she first set it up
Never
28%
38%
3%
31%
18. If your parents looked at your social
networking profile(s) right now, what do you
think they’d think of the stuff you’ve posted?
8% 1%
Totally ok
Mostly ok
20% Some ok, some not
Mostly not ok
72%
19. How do you and your parents
talk about media?
We asked the kids a series of, “Have your parents talked with you about...?” questions.
If they answered 3 or more questions, “No - we haven’t talked about that” here’s why...
I’m older 28
They trust me 115
They have taught me how to use media in a responsible way 68
They were tired of arguing with me about media 2
They can’t always keep track of what I’m doing 9
They don’t know how to use the technology 13
0 37.5 75.0 112.5
20. Privacy and Parenting
• Strategies:
• Keep communication lines open
• Educate on the reality of privacy and
the internet (hint: it’s not private!)
• Join in the fun
• Ask to see what they’re doing
• Have conversations about choices
and consequences
21. Privacy and Parenting
• Strategies:
• Use the news, analyze ads, review
web content, find teachable moments
• Technological solutions (filters, etc.)
• Consider how you approach issues
that are non-technical (friendships,
activities)
23. Cyberbullying
• How do we define it?
• Our MS students were asked
Have you made fun of, harassed, or
messed with someone using the Internet
or your cell phone?
• 12% said “Yes”
24. Cyberbullying
• In our parent survey...
• 60% of parents were “concerned or
somewhat concerned” about their children
being the VICTIM of a cyberbully
• 81% of parents were “somewhat
unconcerned or not at all concerned” about
their children being the PERPETRATOR of
cyberbullying
25. Strategies
• Talk about it from both perspectives
(victim and perpetrator)
• Encourage kids to talk to you or
another adult if they feel there is a
problem
26. Sexting 14-24 year olds
• Pew Research Center Study: 12-17 year olds
• 4% of cell-owning teens 12 - 17
have sent sexually suggestive nude
or nearly nude photos via texting
• 15% of cell-owning teens 12 - 17
say they have received these types
of messages
27. Myths and Facts about
Online Solicitation
• 50,000 online predators...a bogus
“Goldilocks number,” made up by Chris
Hansen on Dateline’s “To Catch a Predator.”
• sexual assaults on teens fell dramatically—by
52 percent—between 1993 and 2005,
according to the Justice Department’s
National Crime Victimization Survey
Mark Bowden, Vanity Fair, Dec 2009
28. Resources
• Links to articles cited and statistics
referenced are available through the
MS Enrolled Families portion of the
CWA website.