Comments on: Stats on Kids and New Media http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2006/03/23/stats-on-kids-and-new-media/ Weblog of Wesley Fryer Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:55:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jeff Cooper http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2006/03/23/stats-on-kids-and-new-media/comment-page-1/#comment-2414 Jeff Cooper Wed, 26 Apr 2006 11:57:38 +0000 http://www.speedofcreativity.org/?p=848#comment-2414 This post shows the highs and lows of technology today. The media runs rampant with how dangerous it is for children to have personal information online (and yes, it can be dangerous). The fact that a younger brother has pictures of his younger sister online is both exhilarating and frightening to me as a professional educator and parent. It is important to know that there are people who might want to use such information for nefarious reasons. It is also amazing that kids can do wonderful things with technology. The important thing is that there is a balance between what the kids are doing with what they should not be doing. They should let there parents know at all times where they are going and what they are doing online. Parents should be aware and post limits as they deem fit. They can't parent adequately if they don't know what their kids are doing. It is both of their responsibilities to work together on this. Secrecy on one side and ignorance on the other are not a good combination. However, there is an amazing world out there online. I am involved with a number of educational organizations (Tapped In, Takingitglobal, Nabuur) that give kids a chance to really become involved with others throughout the world in positive, interactive, and educational ways. Fellow professionals must also take the lead in communicating with kids, and help guide them, their parents, and the surrounding communities (both "real" and virtual) regarding positive and appropriate behavior. Please feel free to contact me with further information if you are interested in my recommendations and advice. Regards, Jeff Cooper Education Technology Support Consultant This post shows the highs and lows of technology today. The media runs rampant with how dangerous it is for children to have personal information online (and yes, it can be dangerous). The fact that a younger brother has pictures of his younger sister online is both exhilarating and frightening to me as a professional educator and parent.

It is important to know that there are people who might want to use such information for nefarious reasons. It is also amazing that kids can do wonderful things with technology.

The important thing is that there is a balance between what the kids are doing with what they should not be doing. They should let there parents know at all times where they are going and what they are doing online. Parents should be aware and post limits as they deem fit. They can’t parent adequately if they don’t know what their kids are doing. It is both of their responsibilities to work together on this. Secrecy on one side and ignorance on the other are not a good combination.

However, there is an amazing world out there online. I am involved with a number of educational organizations (Tapped In, Takingitglobal, Nabuur) that give kids a chance to really become involved with others throughout the world in positive, interactive, and educational ways. Fellow professionals must also take the lead in communicating with kids, and help guide them, their parents, and the surrounding communities (both “real” and virtual) regarding positive and appropriate behavior.

Please feel free to contact me with further information if you are interested in my recommendations and advice.

Regards,

Jeff Cooper
Education Technology Support Consultant

]]> By: Remember when your kids came to you for the answers rather than the Internet ? at UbiKann http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2006/03/23/stats-on-kids-and-new-media/comment-page-1/#comment-890 Remember when your kids came to you for the answers rather than the Internet ? at UbiKann Fri, 07 Apr 2006 01:13:28 +0000 http://www.speedofcreativity.org/?p=848#comment-890 [...] My younger brother Adam, when I was at my dad’s recently was talking to me while playing some game he’d just bought (blood and guns etc.). I was trying to explain to him what the aim of the web site I had just launched was, and how people could publish articles and others could comment about the article like on a blog. His response was “oh have you seen my blog” and then started showing me his blog and the pictures he’d posted of his younger sister and other pictures and content he had posted. I was pretty astonished on how easy all this seemed to him. I suppose through simple comparison of my knowledge of it at his age (Internet didn’t exist ! just my Spectrum plus console) I came across this very interesting article by Wesley Fryer about how children are interacting with technology and their expectations and what we consider to be a new relationship with information and the control they have over it. It also discusses how schools don’t seem to be adapting to or taking advantage of this as well as discussing the significance for children of publishing (impact on their development and understanding of themselves). There is a lot of data, maybe speed reading to parts that may be of more interest to you will help. [...] [...] My younger brother Adam, when I was at my dad’s recently was talking to me while playing some game he’d just bought (blood and guns etc.). I was trying to explain to him what the aim of the web site I had just launched was, and how people could publish articles and others could comment about the article like on a blog. His response was “oh have you seen my blog” and then started showing me his blog and the pictures he’d posted of his younger sister and other pictures and content he had posted. I was pretty astonished on how easy all this seemed to him. I suppose through simple comparison of my knowledge of it at his age (Internet didn’t exist ! just my Spectrum plus console) I came across this very interesting article by Wesley Fryer about how children are interacting with technology and their expectations and what we consider to be a new relationship with information and the control they have over it. It also discusses how schools don’t seem to be adapting to or taking advantage of this as well as discussing the significance for children of publishing (impact on their development and understanding of themselves). There is a lot of data, maybe speed reading to parts that may be of more interest to you will help. [...]

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