This document summarizes a presentation about raising gifted kids in a digital age. The presentation discusses challenges like failing to succeed and empowering kids through technology. It also covers protecting kids from inappropriate content while also empowering them. Additionally, the presentation addresses controlling a child's digital identity and footprint by searching for themselves online, cleaning up unflattering content, and creating favorable online profiles and content. The overall message is the importance of preparing children for navigating the digital world.

1. RAISING
GIFTED KIDS
IN A DIGITAL AGE
__________________________
GAGC PARENT DAY - MARCH 9, 2014
Dr. Angela Housand & Dr. Brian Housand

2. WHO ARE YOU?

3. RAISING !
GIFTED KIDS IN
A DIGITAL AGE
3:10!
FAILING TO
SUCCEED
4:10!
TECH FOR
EMPOWERING
AND
ENGAGING

4. “Every generation of
teenagers embraces
the freedoms and
possibilities wrought
by technology in ways
that shock the elders.”
Time
March
27,
2006

5. “We don’t
have the option
of turning away
from the future.
No one gets to
vote on whether
technology is
going to change
our lives.”
!
Bill Gates
The Road Ahead

7. EF
2 THEIR
OWN
DEVICES

8. REALITY

9. 3,339

12. BEST CASE
SCENARIO?

14. OLPC

15. The kids had completely customized the desktop—
so every kids’ tablet looked different. We had
installed software to prevent them from doing that,
and the fact they worked around it was clearly
CREATIVITY
the kind of INQUIRY the kind of
DISCOVERY that we think is
the kind of
,
,
ESSENTIAL TO LEARNING

16. HAVE YOU
EVER SEEN
A 2 YEAR OLD
USE AN iPad?

18. DIGITAL
PARENTING
STYLE

19. PROTECT
AND LIMIT
Parents need to set boundaries to keep
children safe.
!
Digital media and technology are not
important for a child's healthy development.

20. PROTECT
Screen media needs to be balanced with
other activities.
!
Children are only one click away from a lot of
material that's inappropriate for them.

21. EMPOWER
Children can learn new things by using
online media.
!
Parents should offer guidance on how
to use the Internet for learning.

22. EMPOWER
AND ENGAGE
Children need to learn to navigate the digital
world and make choices for themselves.
!
Children can exercise their creativity by using
online media.

24. Show
Curiosity

25. I like that.
I don’t
like that.

26. House
Rules

27. “Show Me”

28. Are you the same person online
as the person you are face-to-face?

31. Future Self

33. Control the Message

35. Why Control the
Message?
• College Admissions Officers & Committees
will search you
• Potential Employers will search you
• Friends (& non-friends) will search you
• Your Competition will search you
• Potential Boyfriend/Girlfriend will search you
© Angela Housand, 2013

37. Digital
Identity

38. Volume
The amount of information there is about
you on the internet

39. Relevancy
The usefulness of the information that exists
about you and how consistent that
information is with you you say you are and
what you claim to value

40. Purity
The amount of information that comes up in
an Internet search that is about you and not
someone with a similar name or similar
interests

41. Diversity
The mixture of information found when you
are searched online:
•
•
•
Do you have a website?
Are you found in real time content?
Are there images and video of you?

42. Activity Time:
Online ID
© Angela Housand, 2013

43. Search Yourself
• With quotes around your name, search
yourself on Google,Yahoo!, and Bing
• What did you find?

44. Search Yourself
You want to find:
• Favorable entries about your work
• Flattering or neutral mentions of your
personal life

45. Activity Time:
Digital Footprint
© Angela Housand, 2013

46. How To
Control the Message
• Find Out What’s on the Web
• Clean Up Content that You Don’t Want
Everyone in the World to See
• Create a More Flattering Image Online

47. Set Up Alerts!
google.com/alerts

48. Remove Unflattering
Content
Start with what you have posted:
• Delete any negative comments you’ve made
• Delete inappropriate photos or videos
• Check all sites!
!
• Edit blog entries that are negative

51. Remove Unflattering
Content
You Can Start Fresh Too:
• Delete all of your accounts
• Create new ones with a unique name for
yourself
• Use your middle initial
• Use your nickname
• Remember...Nothing really ever goes away.

52. Remove Unflattering
Content
• Ask others to remove negative
content about you.
• Remove “tags” from photos
• Paid services:
reputation.com
internetreputation.com

54. Remove Unflattering
Content
Reset Privacy Settings:
• Block groups or individuals from viewing
content that you would prefer to be
private
• Manage our groups regularly and
remove unsupportive members

55. Other Message
Management Tips
• Avoid overly prolific status updates
• Claim your domain name
GoDaddy.com
• Create a More Flattering Image Online

56. The BEST Way To
Control the Message
Create Favorable Content
• Set up a linkedin.com profile that is public
• Get people to “endorse” you professionally
• Update profiles regularly
• Blog on a topic of interest
• Contribute in positive ways to the online
community - and do so often!

57. “We may not be able to
prepare the future for
our children,
but at least we can
prepare our children
for the future.”
- Franklin D. Roosevelt