When parents want to opt their children out of ed tech I had a conversation with a parent a few weeks back during which she said something like this: My husband and I are worried about how prevalent screens are in our children’s lives.
We are striving to maintain some balance between screen time and other time for our kids. Parenting in the Social Media Age: How to Keep Your Child Safe. AUTHOR: Kenney Myers // CATEGORY: Catch All Parenting has changed drastically in the past decade.
Instead of dinner bells ringing children home, they now have cell phones. Social media has become an obsession and a favorite past time. With the changes in technology, changes in parenting become necessary.You can keep your child safe in the social media age with a few tips to help you stay up to speed with today’s technology and your child’s plugged-in world.Learn the TechnologyFirst and foremost, for parents to be able to help, it is important that they understand how technology works and accept that technology is a big part of young people’s lives, says Silje Vallestad, CEO and founder of Bipper, a mobile safety app company.
Doctors Prescribe Tech Limits for Kids. The internet can harm, but can also be a child's best tool for learning. From working with children and the internet for the past 15 years, I have learnt that it can be as harmful as we want it to be.
If a child is alone with the internet, and no one else is around, the web can be a deadly, subversive, filthy and perverse place. The internet is our collective consciousness and human consciousness is not always pretty. When children access the internet on large, publicly visible screens in safe and public surroundings, the net can be their most beneficial friend. Groups of children can learn almost anything by themselves, using the internet. I have evidence of this from all over the world. There is a perception that the internet is "full of rubbish" and that children will learn incorrect things from it. The internet itself is self-correcting and there is, actually, very little "rubbish" on it that is not marked as rubbish by millions of users. The internet enables children to talk to people anywhere in the world. Google Chrome adds parental controls to browser. Facebook defends looser restrictions on teen usage. Facebook has defended its decision to make the posts of its teenage users more visible, claiming that “teenagers are expert at controlling who they share things with”.
The social networking site says that it has tightened privacy settings for users aged between 13 to 17, restricting the sharing of posts to friends only by default. The previous default included friends of friends, who might not be directly known by the user. The company has also introduced “additional tools to help educate teens on the implications of sharing a post with a public audience, with reminders as they post”, explained a Facebook spokesperson. “This means they have to make a conscious choice before they share publicly. When teens choose ‘public’ in the audience selector, they’ll see a reminder that the post can be seen by anyone, not just people they know, with an option to change the post’s privacy. Tony Neate, the chief executive of Get Safe Online, concurred.
Facebook defends looser restrictions on teen usage. Internet Safety. As a parent, you wouldn't think of leaving your children alone in a strange neighbourhood, allowing them to stroll through an adult bookstore or let them wander aimlessly on a busy street or highway.
Similarly, no responsible parent would permit their child to have secret meetings with strangers. The Internet, with all its benefits, presents new dangers to kids and parents need to be aware of those dangers. Keeping your child safe online. Advice for parents about keeping your child safe when using the internet, social networking websites and online gaming.
Cyberbullying 38% of young people have been affected by bullying online, through social networking websites or mobile phones. Our advice for parents can help. Find out more Sexting Creating, sending or receiving explicit images is increasingly common among children and young people. Thinkuknow - home. Internet Safety: Rules of the Road for Kids. When we were growing up, a permanent record was something your school kept.
Now, our kids create lasting records of their lives whenever they post something online. In a world where anything can be copied, pasted, altered and distributed in the blink of an eye to a vast invisible audience, kids must understand that they hold the key to what kind of reputation they create for themselves. Help kids help themselves As parents, it's up to us to help our kids understand the consequences of their actions and prepare them for the fact that the user name "FatGreenWizard" -- which might have been cute in 5th grade -- won't be so adorable at that first job interview. We have to help them think long term about posting those pictures that will inevitably come back to bite them on areas of the body that were all too likely on display in the offending snapshots. Rules of the Road for Kids 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. NetSafe: Cybersafety and Security advice for New Zealand. Parent Toolkit: Home Page.