22nd February 2016: http://drbexl.co.uk/event/bucks-youth-matters-in-a-digital-age/

1. Raising Children in a Digital Age
Dr Bex Lewis, Director, Digital Fingerprint;
Senior Lecturer in Digital Marketing, Manchester
Metropolitan University
Cores End Church, 22/02/16
http://www.slideshare.net/drbexl/youth-matters-evening-event
CC Licence 4.0 non-commercial
@drbexl
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2. Published by Lion Hudson
February 2014
Chinese/Italian editions in
process
http://j.mp/RCIDAge

3. http://drbexl.co.uk/tag/sid2014
http://drbexl.co.uk/tag/sid2015
http://drbexl.co.uk/tag/sid2016

4. Understand!
“If we want resilient kids we need
to understand what young people’s
experiences are online, listen to
their concerns, and intervene with
their best interests in mind.”
Jane Tallim, Co-Executive Director, MediaSmarts,
Canada, January 2015
http://mediasmarts.ca/research-policy/young-canadians-wired-world-phase-iii-trends-recommendations
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5. Let’s “tweet” each
other…
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6. All those negative
headlines…
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7. Is it the end of the world
as we know it?
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8. Even though in practice,
face-to-face communication
can, of course, be angry,
negligent, resistant, deceitful
and inflexible, somehow it
remains the ideal against
which mediated
communication is judged as
flawed.
Prof Sonia
Livingstone,
Children and the
Internet: Great
Expectations
and Challenging
Realities. 2009,
p26

9. https://twitter.com/hanelly/status/405754162555944960/photo/1

10. Digital Culture: Why it matters
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11. https://youtu.be/jottDMuLesU

12. http://pennystocks.la/internet-in-real-time

13. Technology: The Toolbox
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14. http://www.reddit.com/r/geek/comments/1zxyz2/social_media_explained/

15. Children in
Digital Culture
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16. Communicate, Communicate,
Communicate
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17. https://www.imom.com/printable/social-media-contract-for-kids/

18. Practical Advice:
Privacy &
Permanency
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19. To monitor or
not to monitor?
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20. Identity, Values and Authenticity
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21. Just because you can
… doesn’t mean you
should!
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22. 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/

23. Who sees this?
1. (God)
2. Parents
3. ‘Kids’
4. Newspaper
5. Enemy
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24. Human Beings
at machines,
not “are
machines”
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25. Relationships (Online)
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26. The Bullied
The Bully
The Bystander
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27. The only thing
necessary for the
triumph of evil is that
good men do nothing
Quote commonly (and probably erroneously)
attributed to Edmund Burke

28. Digital Allies

29. BBC: Be Smart
“We’re doing this because all the research
tells us that children and young people
respond best to their peers. Whether they’re
under pressure to take part in a dangerous
prank, or to victimise someone, or whether
they’re an online bully themselves, stories
told by other young people are most likely to
resonate and to help them cope, or change
their behaviour.”
Andrew Tomlinson, Executive Producer, Media Literacy, BBC Learning
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/aboutthebbc/entries/f1f50247-4902-4998-bf58-3e2d3c007587

30. Increased time spent online will most likely increase
exposure to negative experiences – but also the
positive opportunities. Nancy Willard, a
cyberbullying expert, calls for us to work on the
“understanding that the vast majority of young
people want to make good choices, do not want to
be harmed, and do not want to see their friends or
others harmed”. We can’t control their whole
environment, online or offline, so parents need to
give their children the capability to deal with
problems as they come across them.
Raising Children in a Digital Age, p.63

31. Stranger Danger
2012/13
550 UK Abductions
Less than 1/5: unknown
“On average 11 children are killed by a
stranger each year in the UK … there are
more than 11 million children in the UK”
(Netmums)

32. Increasingly Mobile
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33. Sex Talk
(Porn, Pedophilia and Sexting)
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34. Keeping within the Law
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35. Health Works
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Physical Setup
Brain Changes
Addiction
Multitasking
Conversational Ability
Couch Potatoes

36. The core signs of addiction
• The activity becomes the most important thing in a person’s life.
• Moods change in accordance with the activity.
• Continually higher doses of an activity are required to achieve
the original sensations.
• Withdrawal symptoms such as anxiety and depression are
experienced when the activity is stopped.
• Increasing conflict occurs with those in the closest social circle.
• There is a tendency to return to the activity after periods of
control (relapse).
• The “sunk cost” fallacy is experienced: not wanting to abandon
something after so much time has been sunk into it.
Raising Children in a Digital Age, p168

37. Screen time and
family dynamics
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38. Gaming
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39. Does digital offer
(life) opportunities?
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40. Progressive responsibility
• Do it for them
• Do it with them
• Watch while they do it
• Let them do it for
themselves.
Will Taylor

41. Grandparents, teachers
& youth leaders
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42. Looking to the future
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43. Bounce Back?
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44. What is your ONE
takeaway action?

45. @drbexl @digitalfprint