Thursday, May 07, 2009

Social Networking and Teens: What Parents Need to Know

Today I am presenting a session on "Social Networking and Teens: What Parents Need to Know" as part of a 5-week Parent Breakfast Series at Stevenson High School, hosted by Jerry Franklin, academic counselor and Lisa Franz, school social worker. The goal of these meetings is to provide a forum to "discuss some of the challenges parents raising teenagers face during adolescent development. This group will provide information, strategies, mutual support and resources for parents who would like to gain an increased understanding of their children while improving their parenting approach."

Here is a link to the audio file of the presentation.

Here are links to resources mentioned:

Project Tomorrow
http://www.tomorrow.org/

Digital Youth Project
http://digitalyouth.ischool.berkeley.edu/report

Danah Boyd, Researcher
http://www.danah.org/

Danah Boyd on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mzctKajhI0

PEW Internet Report: Social Networking Websites and Teens
http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2007/Social-Networking-Websites-and-Teens.aspx

Five Years of Free Friendship – Facebook commentary
http://www.pewinternet.org/Commentary/2009/February/Five-Years-of-Free-Friendship-Online.aspx

10 Privacy Settings Every Facebook User Should Know
http://www.allfacebook.com/2009/02/facebook-privacy/

Readers Digest May 2009 Report
http://www.rd.com/living-healthy/parent-alert-teens-and-porn/article125454.html

New NSBA Report on Social Networking
http://www.pbs.org/teachers/learning.now/2007/08/new_nsba_report_on_social_netw.html

Digital Dossier
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79IYZVYIVLA

CyberSmart Curriculum

And the slides from the presentation

Special thanks to Steve Dembo, of Discovery Education for his help and sharing his resources.

Additional websites shared during the presentation:


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  1. Michael5/07/2009 9:46 AM

    I applaud your work in presenting ‘Social Networking and Teens: What parents Need to Know”.

    I am the president of www.GuardChild.com, a holistic website that provides parents with the fundamental resources for protecting children online. According to the PEW Internet & American Life Project - 64% of all teens admit to engaging in online activities they wouldn't want their parents to know about. Clearly, this behavior puts children and their families at risk, this is one of the reasons GuardChild was created. We offer a unique, one-stop website that fuses the best parental control software and educational resources, enabling parents to minimize that risk.

    Our research found a major gap in parental educational as well as education for children about online dangers. Unfortunately, because of the lack of education and parents not knowing or understanding social networks, instant messaging, text and chat acronyms their children are at risk.

    Again, kudos to you and I hope you continue to offer Podcast to parents so they can better understand the dangers online. Also, feel free to visit our site and tell your readers about it. I think your readers/listeners will find the site useful and packed with lots of free information and staggering statistics.

    Feel free to contact me at administrator@guardchild.com.

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  2. Nancy J.5/08/2009 2:23 PM

    Thanks for sharing this. It is going to be interesting to see how this all plays out with the new Internet laws. I am interested in learning more about the cyberbullying law myself.
    I appreciate your generosity. It helps me get a jump on one of my summer tasks.

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  3. Charlene Chausis5/18/2009 9:13 PM

    As a follow up to this post, here is a free content filtering suggestion from Oklahoma educator, Wes Fryer: http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2009/05/03/setting-up-a-basic-content-filter-for-free-at-granddaddys-house/

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