Is it too early to begin? The Impacts with Positives – Negatives & Safety on Social Networking Sites and Internet

1. Technology Influence
Is it too early to begin? The Impacts with Positives – Negatives & Safety on Social
Networking Sites and Internet
TALKING DIGITAL

3. ‘The New Generations Study’
by Cartoon Network
22 percent the kids today have access to the computer and the
Internet
49 percent of kids went online to search for information
26 percent for email
23 percent for homework
19 percent for social networking
Amongst those who visited social networks,
Facebook topped the popularity list with 93 percent
To be noted that minimum required age for registration on most social
networking sites is 13. This means that most of the 19 percent of kids
accessing social networks are not supposed to be on these sites.

4. KIDS MOBILE USE
79% of the kids are mobile phone users.
• 9% have their own mobile phone (2% in
the 4-6 year age group, 6% in the 7-10
year age group, 13% in the 11-14 year
age group)
• Top activities on the mobile phone: 87%
play games, 84% for making calls, 48%
listen to music, 29% use it for SMS,
22% for taking photographs
• 61% of the parents feel that kids should
have their own mobile phone only by
the age of 18

5. GENX-M – MULTITASKING GENERATION
ARE KIDS WIRED FOR GOOD?
Electronically ‘Sugar coated’ Learning?
• Social and Psychological impacts
• Disorganized and Undisciplined Lifestyle
• Children Boredom with lack of Indoors – Outdoor Games
• Prolonged exposure create messiness of reality, community building and demands of commitment
• Physical Health issues – obesity, binge eating, development delays (language and learning)
• Muscular skeletal injuries – repeated use may overtax hands, wrists, arms and neck
• Vision Problems
• Lack of exercise and concentration problems
• Isolated lives – tend to ignore real life people around and avoid being social – have a complex
• Less Motivation – mesmerizing graphics and even educational software makes real education dull
• Stunt Imagination – ready made imagination, missing own ideas and visualize fantasy
• Impaired language and literacy – distracted in communication, vocabulary barriers and limitation
to express in speech or writing
• Moral Behavior and Emotional Competence
Children today are under tremendous stress and suffer increasingly from illnesses such as
allergies, asthma, hyperactive disorders, obesity and depression. This stress must be trim down….
Don’t you Agree?

6. Power of Technology
• An Added Dimension of Learning
• Skilled in Analyzing visual data and images
• Modern childhood - Homework Help and Teacher communication
• Visual learning through videos, audio clips, presentations – media in classrooms / homes
• Fewer full length books and more excerpts and articles
• Gain Confidence by interacting with people online
• Technology is constantly evolving – Kids become familiar with new and emerging technologies
• Get support in online Communities – Groups of FB
• Being social with online communication
• Explore Topics useful through Social networking sites – same interest groups, sharing n learning
• Keep in touch with family, friends, relatives
• Create classroom blogs, kids blogs, debates, discussion, videos and more
• Music is Fun n learn through vast You Tube collection if chosen appropriately – You Tube Edu
• Changing Life with Changing Trends - no more ‘fountainheads of learning’ but ‘facilitators of learning’ adopting
the method ‘ I learn, you learn, we learn’ system increasing the abilities Navigation – I tell, you Listen, You tell
and I Learn too
• For playtime – Entertainment – Socializing – Knowledge n More – Keeping your Log ‘Blogging’ on Google/sites
• News – eg. Following NIE Tips at Kidsfreesouls and using the site for daily news for use in classrooms
GOOD, BAD WILL BE THE NEXT GENERATION X MULTITASKER
DO NOT TURN ‘UGLY’ POWER IS WITH YOU

7. PROTECT KIDS ONLINE
SOCIAL NETWORKING
FACEBOOK – TWITTER – G+
INTERNET
Predators crawl on the web everywhere waiting for naive kids and teenagers to introduce themselves.
Especially,if your children are on 'Facebook' hanging for hours playing games or chatting with friends
It’s a RED ALERT to BE AWARE, BEWARE !
1. Cyberbullying is biggest threat. Examples of cyberbullying include
- mean text messages or emails,
- rumors sent by email or posted on social networking sites
- embarrassing pictures, videos, websites, or fake profiles
2. Kids, Parents and Video Games
3. Identity Thefts
4. Chatting tips online
5. Kids socializing online
6. Kids and Mobiles
7. Kids and Computer Security
8. Texting and sexting
9. Parental Controls
10. Communication
93 % Children below 13 years have FB Accounts – 78% kids are aware of – 2% Teachers hardly talk
on Responsible Netizen

8. SAFETY MEASURES
• RESOURCES:
• Facebook
• https://www.facebook.com/safety/groups/parents/
• Beatbullying.org
• Cyberbullying Research Center - cyberbullying.us
• Insafe - safeinternet.org
• Media Awareness Network - media-awareness.ca
• NetSmartz - netsmartz.org
• OnGuardOnline - onguardonline.gov
• Stopbullying.gov - stopbullying.gov
• UK Council for Child Internet Safety - education.gov.uk/ukccis
• WebWiseKids - webwisekids.org
• ACMA Cybersmart - cybersmart.gov.au
• Net Smartz - NetSmartz411.org
• Wired Safety - Wiredsafety.org
• Kidsfreesouls:Kids Newspaper - Kidsfreesouls.com

9. KIDS PRIVACY
Imagine – 7.5 million users on FB below 13 years !
• Google Search – Go to Chrome
Settings
• FB – Go to Manage Account
• Update your Information
• Go to Protect your Account
• Control who can see your Information
• Unfriending
• Blocking
• Report Abusive or offensive content
• Spam a person
• Learn to know terms as ‘Friends,
friends of friends, Like, poke, wall and
comment (how to)
• Limit Friends
• Turn off Public Search

10. SAFE SEARCH ENGINES FOR KIDS
• Google’s Safe Search for Kids
• - on right, google search engine – below click ‘settings’
Video :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNbHGrGJu8Q
• www.safesearchkids.com/kids-search-engines/
• http://www.gogooligans.com/
• Kidtopia.info
• ikeepsafe.org
• Kidsfreesouls.com

11. GADGETS AND THEY MEAN A LOT TO KIDS
Can you stop their use when you are using the same? How often you check Whatsapp,
FB, emails, G+, SMS, Listen to Music or browse Chrome?

12. GAMES FOR KIDS
GAMES ON INTERNET AND GOOGLE PLAY HAS AMPLE GAMES FOR
PLAY AND DOWNLOAD – WHAT IS IMPORTANT IS TO CHECK THE RATINGS
5 Social Network Fun and Safe Games for Kids on Facebook
Togetherville / Whats what / ScuttlePad / GiantHello / Skidekids
Love for Animals or Pets? Go for Moshi Monsters – 6-14 years age with 80
million registered – 150 territories worldwide ! Also KidQ App – Knowledge
and Learning by Scholastic

13. PARENTAL CONTROLS
Internet on your Desk and in your Pocket
• Netnanny.com
• #1 Awarded software – checks
Internet filter, block pornography, Time
Management, social media monitoring,
alerts, chat monitoring, etc.
• Playrific
http://playrific.com/apps
• For parents of 2-to-8-year-olds has a
free app with a locked browser that
allows only content suitable for
children, including educational videos,
interactive games and books.
• Mamabear
• Locate, social network monitoring etc
• AVG, Norton, funamo
• Chrome – content filtering
https://www.google.co.in/safetycenter/f
amilies/start/

14. Google Safe Search – Activate
Go to – Settings (below on SE)
Set Filter (refer https://www.google.co.in/safetycenter/families/start/)

15. Google Images
Search to Maya Kodnani ended up Journalists picking my pic
Instead of BJP MLA Maya Kodnani who is accused of Gujarat riots !!!
The title reads ‘HC adjourns Kodnani’s bail cancellation hearing’
(in March 2009)
MISUNDERSTANDINGS THROUGH SEARCHES HAPPEN ! SO, BE AWARE

16. PARENTING STYLE
• Here are some Indicators used to know the Parenting Style: Identify whether it is ‘hands
on’, ‘half hearted’ or ‘hands off’ – who could be the better judge than a parent!
• Parents monitor what the child is watching on Television
• Parents impose choice of music while listening or buying
• Parents are aware of the child’s school activities
• Parents monitor internet activities of the child/computers & mobiles
• Parents expect to be told truthfully where the child is going with friends
• Parents make a practice to have at least dinner together six days a week
• Parents make sure the television is switched off while dinner time
• When the child returns home, an adult is at home
• The child is taught to be organized and responsible for certain chores
• Parents who give respect to each other and to their grandparents in front of the child
• Parents who blame each other to carry on child’s daily chores
• Parents make clear with choice of friends, habits and use four magic words ‘I can’t afford it
• Hands on parenting averts the kid risk taking behavior. With new generation
• frustration, hands off parenting pace in way with half hearted parenting styles.

17. Today’s Reader, Tomorrow’s Leader
Today’s Learner, Tomorrow’s Expert
BE JACK OF ALL TRADES AND MASTER OF ALL : INSPIRE & GROW TOGETHER

18. MAKE KIDS SAFE ONLINE
Help Kids to be Safe online. Use your You Tube Account to make Playlists to
Add his favorite Rhymes, stories, cartoons, Educational etc. videos.
Sit together, have fun. Also Download offline for Mobile Use. Set Time Limits.

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A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO JOYFUL PARENTING
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20. THANK YOU
Presentation by Ilaxi Patel at Poesis Foundation
• Editor, www.kidsfreesouls.com – Kids Newspaper. Ex Editor SAMBHAAV
online and Ex Editor - SAMBHAAV (Free Souls Supplement)(1997-2004).
• Author of “Guardian of Angels: A practical guide to Joyful Parenting”
• (available on Amazon.com & Most International Webstores
Conducts Parenting Workshops
• Official Blogger & VA to M J Akbar, (Editor - The Sunday Guardian, India Today
& Headlines Today - TV – www.mjakbar.org (2004-2013) November 2014
Currently working
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• She is a speaker on Parenting topics, Entrepreneurship and Women in
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