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Our Students Communicating in
the Digital World:
The Dangers of Electronic Media
Dr. Jeremy Visone, Principal
Anna Reynolds Elementary School
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• Internet: Instant messaging, Social Media
Platforms (Facebook, Twitter, etc.)
• SMART Devices: texting, picture messaging,
apps (Facebook, Twitter/Vine, Kik, Instagram,
Snapchat, etc.)
• Video Games: Closed Chat vs. Open Chat
How Our Students
Communicate
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• Ease of use
• Instant gratification
• 24/7/365
• Follows them everywhere
• Escape from reality
• All my friends . . .
Why Our Students
Communicate Electronically
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• Ease of hurting someone
• Tone is difficult to convey
• “Anonymity,” or feeling of it, at least
Why Students’ Electronic
Communications can be
Troublesome
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• Consider your own life and interactions (email a “no” reply versus a phone call)
• Closing the computer/turning off phone when done
• Impulsivity
• Peer pressure and desire for conformity
Ease of Hurting Someone
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UR annoying!
Loser!
Whatever!
%*^(&!
Ease of Hurting Someone
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• Talking with students/children:
How would feel if someone said this to you?
If you wouldn’t want Mom/Dad/
Grandma/Coach/Principal to read it, don’t post it!
Ease of Hurting Someone
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• Again, consider your own life and interactions (sarcasm in an email)
• 90% of communication is nonverbal
• Writing skills lag verbal communication skills
Tone is Difficult to Convey
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Hi Sam
Hey
Whts up
Nothin stpid
Tone is Difficult to Convey
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• Talking with students/children:
Not the place for sarcasm . . .
Say what you mean . . .
Don’t overreact!
Benefit of the doubt . . .
Tone is Difficult to Convey
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• Forgetting ones’ audience can be the world
• Trust in one’s “friends”
• What if your “friends” change?
• Impulsivity (again)
“Anonymity”
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Did you see what Wendell was wearing today?
Eww. He’s gross!
That was so funny when Wendell fell—what a loser!
“Anonymity”
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• Talking with students/children: There is no such thing as private
in the electronic world (ex. screen shots, forwarding, retweeting, printing, URLs, etc.)
If you don’t want <insert name of kid you are insulting here> to read it, don’t post it!
“Anonymity”
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• Sexting: sexual conduct by sending inappropriate messages or pictures, usually via a cell phone, email, or social networking site
Sexting
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• MTV/AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research • 1300 people aged 14-24 surveyed
online • 2011: 32% involved in some sort of
sexting • 2013: 26% involved in some sort of
sexting • 2013: fewer reporting rumors, spying,
or other harrassment
Sexting
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http://www.youtube.com/watch
?v=rINDWMRUSV0&feature
=related&safety_mode=true&
persist_safety_mode=1
Sexting Consequences
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• CT: Sexting = Misdemeanor (for some)
• CT: School Climate Law (Public Act 11-232; C.G.S. 10-222d; role of school) • “written, oral, or electronic
communication”
• “substantially disrupts” –OR-
• “creates a hostile environment at school”
Some Legal Issues to
Consider
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• Stamford: (2013) bullying arrest of 12 year old for disorderly conduct in escalating conflict with former friend
• Outside of CT: FL (2013) 14 year old and 12 year old arrested with felony aggravated stalking in suicide death of 12 year old Rebecca Ann Sedwick
Some Legal Issues to
Consider (Recent Examples)
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Putting Cyber Bullying into
Perspective • Seemingly small interactions can still be hurtful.
• It is much easier to say something mean via electronic means.
• Tone is difficult to convey (up for interpretation).
• Every year, dozens of children commit suicide due to (cyber) bullying.
• According to the Cyberbullying Research Center in 2010, 21% of 11-18 year olds reported being cyberbullied and almost as many admitted doing so themselves.
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What Can be Done if Cyber
Bullying Affects Your Child • CT State Law now allows schools the authority
to intervene with consequences if cyberbullying affects the victim at school
• Encourage your child to never say anything online that they would not say in person to the other child or in front of you, me, or other adults
• Save any documentation (i.e. printouts of chats, logs of numbers of calls, saving negative images, etc.)
• Involve Police if there are threats or other crimes
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Ways that Lack of Privacy
Can Cost Your Child
• Reputation with friends
• School discipline
• Possible colleges/employers (College
admissions officers checking
Facebook, Google, and Internet have
quadrupled recently.)
• Legal consequences
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So, what is a Parent to do?
• Developmental appropriateness (cell phones, Facebook [13]/Vine [17], etc.)
• “Nanny software”: an example is PC Pandora (www.pcpandora.com)
• Parental controls from Internet and cell phone providers
• Beware of multiple Facebook pages
• Be very aware and proactive: The new “The Talk”
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So, what is a Parent to do?
• Share your negative Internet
experiences
• Model appropriate and cordial
electronic posting behavior
• Be alert to changes in your child
• Learn the lingo (ex. “9” or “P911”=
parent present; www.netlingo.com)
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Resources
• ConnectSafely www.connectsafely.org Tips, advice, and the latest news on online safety
• AllSafeSites www.allsafesites.com A child-safe Internet search engine
• Trend Micro www.trendmicro.com/internetsafety Lots of information on Internet safety
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Another Resource
A presentation about this content, as
well as online predators and other
topics can be found at:
• www.ar.npsct.org (View Dr. Visone's Updated Dangers of
Electronic Media Presentation for 2013)
• www.youtube.com (Search for Dangers of Electronic
Media, and my presentation will pop up as one of the first
items, or use the direct link http://youtu.be/DX4IKjmYk2I.)
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Questions?
Thank you for coming and spreading these messages to our children!