1. Technology in Middle School

2. Is this normal today?
Facilitator Notes: Pose the question “Is this normal today to all be sitting around one TV, watching the same show at the same time?” You may want to ask instead what their normal evening looks like at home.
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3. Is this more like your normal today?
Facilitator Notes: This may instead look like what your normal evening looks like at home. We live in a world of hyper-personalization. We can watch what we want, where we want, and we have information at our fingertips. Students are used to instant and immediate gratification.

4. Today we will
Understanding the tech tools available to HPM students
Explore ways to help our kids navigate their digital world by
Learning how teens are using technology in their everyday lives

5. Stay Connected

6. Parent VUE = Phoenix
Check grades, link to resources, teachers

7. ParentVUE Login

8. ParentVUE

9. Google Classroom

10. Technology Tools @ HPM Leveraging Technology for Student Learning
Promethean Boards
2 computer labs
Laptops
Chromebooks - thank you PTA!
iPads (23)
Leveraging Technology for Student Learning

11. BYOT - Bring Your Own Technology
Which devices are best?
Please don’t text your child during school
Devices with a keyboard

12. Students and Their Digital World
One of our jobs as parents and teachers is to help our kids navigate their digital world.

13. This is where we are

15. Daily Entertainment Media Consumption
Tweens (8-12 year olds)
6 hours a day (5.55)
Teens (13-18 year olds)
9 hours a day (8.56)

16. 5 Steps to a Healthy Media Diet
Choose the good stuff
Watch, listen, and play together
Keep a balance
Walk the walk
Watch the clock

17. Choose the good stuff

18. Watch, listen, and play together
Know what your kids are watching, what they are playing, and what they are listening to.

19. Keep a balance

20. Walk the Walk Watch the clock
Model for your children
Watch the clock
Screen free times
No screens during dinner
Screen free zones
No screens in bedrooms

21. Chris Anderson editor Wired and drone creator
“This is rule No. 1:
There are no screens in the bedroom.
Period. Ever.”

22. Negative Effects Compromised Sleep- blue glow decreases melatonin
Absorbed by media
Addicted to response
Instant response from others- counting likes

23. Another thought….
“less than 16% of teens have created, appeared in, or received a sext”
…..but that means

24. Consequences of Sexting No privacy online!
Child pornography charges
Registered sex offender
Vicious bullying
Sexting Handbook for Teens
No privacy online!

25. Children Differ in their Consumption
Gaming
Listening to music and social media
YouTube

26. Understanding Gaming Understand the lure and limit time gaming
Internet Gaming Disorder
Rewards-
Community
Responsibility
Comradeship
Escape
Understand the lure and limit time gaming

27. Know the terms of use for apps
Top 3 Popular Apps
Minimum age
Twitter Instagram 13
SnapChat 13
Know the terms of use for apps

28. Social Media - Have the Talk
Set privacy settings
Tell kids to think before they post
Be a friend and follower
Keep private info private
Be respectful

29. A few other ideas Have kids use your app store account
Require kids to ask before downloading apps
Talk to your kids. Ask them what apps are popular with their friends.

30. Twitter - Basics Retweet Public Favorite Group “private” chats
Direct Messages - may seem private
Public
Once it’s out there- it’s NOT in your control

31. Instagram - Basics
“Photos shared in Instagram are public and may have location information unless privacy settings are adjusted. Instagram Direct allows users to send private photos directly to other users.”

32. Instagram concerns
Inappropriate photos
Bullying responses to post

33. Teach kids how to handle inappropriate content
Delete
Tell you, the parent
Never share

34. Snapchat Basics 1 to 10 second image Stories - series of snaps
Live for 24 hours

35. Snapchat Concerns Screen shots (notified) Other phones
Illusion + appeal of disappearing
Remember: Nothing is temporary

36. Kik 13-18 w/parent permission
Other Apps
Whisper 17
Kik w/parent permission
Yik Yak 17
Ask.fm 13
Vine 17
Being shut down - if hasn’t already happened
Yik Yak is a social media smartphone application. It is available for iOS and Android and it allows people to create and view discussion threads within a 5-mile radius (termed "Yaks" by the application).[2] All users have the ability to contribute to the stream by writing, responding, and "voting up" or "voting down" (liking or disliking) yaks.
Whisper is a mobile app available without charge, which says that it allows users to send messages anonymously, and to receive replies.[3][4] Users post messages, known as "whispers," which are displayed as text superimposed over an image automatically retrieved from Whisper's own search engine or uploaded by the user.
Kik Messenger, commonly called simply Kik, is a proprietary instant messenger software application (app) for mobile devices from the Canadian company Kik Interactive, available free of charge on iOS, Android, and Windows Phoneoperating systems.[1] Kik Messenger is modeled after BlackBerry Messenger.[2] It uses a smartphone's data plan or Wi-Fi to transmit and receive messages, photos, videos, sketches, mobile webpages, and other content after users register a username. The app has been criticized as unsafe for minors due to its anonymity features and allegedly weak parental control mechanisms.
ASKfm is a global social networking site where users create profiles and can send each other questions.
Vine is a short-form video sharing service where users can share six-second-long looping video clips

37. AfterSchool New, highly popular app
Students have to verify with Facebook account

39. Remember Your kid’s phone really belongs to you!
There should be NO expectation of PRIVACY online.

40. Resources American Academy of Pediatrics
Sheriff’s Department Presentations
Common Sense Media
HPM Counselors
Media! Tech! Parenting!

41. Kahoot
kahoot.it