What parents need to know about kids online and potential problems. What makes our 21st century kids tick? Don't demonise the net - work out what to do to be safe!

1. MySpace or Yours?
Presentation for Parents
Judy O’Connell Catholic Education Office
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2. possibilities & pitfalls
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3. Ten Years Past
Few or no experiences with....
websites, email, spam, phishing,
computer viruses
mobile phones were rare and expensive
a Sony Walkman was state of the art

4. The Digital Generation Gap

5. Pandora

8. “There has been an explosion of interactive
communications: the internet is the biggest
thing since the invention of the printing
press, and is having a tremendous impact on
our society, our institutions and our kids”
........Real Wired Child:What Parents Need to Know About Kids Online.
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9. based on communities, collaboration,
Harnessing Collective
Intelligence
reading, writing, and sharing

12. Video

15. i’ts all about seeing

16. online tools are
abundant
• Blogging
• Sharing music, videos, photos
• Messaging and Social Networking
• Gaming and Teen Life
• Commenting on others’ sites
• Personalising their own pages

17. games
• Connected
worldwide with
thousands of
other players at
once.
• Detailed virtual
worlds with
sophisticated,
potentially
addictive
gameplay.

18. music
Peer 2 Peer file sharing
Apple iTunes
Mp3 download sites

19. social networking
• Friend of a
friend
concept
• Profiles
• MySpace,
Bebo,
Facebook,
Piczo

20. social publishing
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21. self publishing & sharing
Blogging
Wikis
StartPages
YouTube
Flickr

22. self publishing & sharing
http://heyjude.wordpress.com/

23. leading learning
a new angle?

24. Definitely!

31. virtual learning
In short Mike's Mum had threatened to
cut off his Internet access. Her
perception was that Mike was wasting
his time playing 'silly computer games'.
She wanted him (according to Mike) to
go and get a job at Kentucky Fried
Chicken. Imagine that - the best second
life developer I have seen giving it all
away to go work in a fast food joint!
Ahhh
Edunation! Skoolaborate!

32. What are the issues?
• Keeping tabs on
where your kids
go
• Privacy
• Inappropriate
content
• Bullying and
predators

33. `
Think before you post

34. it’s about digital natives

35. and digital immigrants

36. oopsanger

37. common misconception

38. Finding information

39. Finding information
http://www.pandia.com/index.html

40. school tools
blogs
wikis
podcasts
videos
images
voicethreads
social networking
and cybersafety!
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41. RSS browsing

42. What can we do?
Understand!
• Public spaces for
computers
Trust!
• Open dialogue
• Negotiate use and
purpose
• Monitor behaviour
• Set limits
• Listen to
understand

43. What can they do?
• No personal details
Private!
• No meeting
strangers
Grow!
• No sharing
passwords
IM
• Agree on limits
• Combat
cyberbullying!
• Keep safe!

44. The Internet
is
the human network
Welcome to the human network

45. Information Overload 13
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Introduction to Social Bookmarking

46. Learn more…
Useful sites for information
Stop Cyberbullying stopcyberbullying.org/
StaySafe.org www.staysafe.org/teens/default.html
NetAlert www.netalert.gov.au/home.html
Education Programs www.netalert.gov.au/programs.html
Cybersmart Kids http://www.cybersmartkids.com.au/
Learn about Web 2.0
Judy’s Web 2 Notes www.judyoconnell.wordpress.com

47. it’s just a rollercoaster
ride!
Thank You.
With thanks to Graham Wegner and Sue Waters