1. e-Safety
Understanding
addictive behaviour
Sep 2018

2. Last year, in e-safety week we talked about…
Our on-line and off-line behavior
Honesty and trust rather than rules
The Agreement in your Student Diary
Can I be your friend?
Today, in e-safety week we’re going to talk about:
Notifications go off during review- check phone!
Pin likes on people.
Take a selfie at end to show bad behaviour!
Year 7 – you missed this! New teachers too!
It’s in student share if you want to look.

3. Behaviour How do you feel about what just happened?
Which do you think is most important to me – you or my phone?
Who is the master here – me or my phone?
Why did I do this? How to explain this behaviour….
(Checking for likes)
(Many parents do not switch off their phone in meetings)

4. Feedback! It’s human nature - we want to be noticed, to be recognised
- we want feedback
However, in the smartphone age we seem to depend more on our phones for feedback rather than on face-to-face contact.
Have we just de-humanised human relationships?!
Do you find it easier to deal with people through social media than directly?
De-humanised?!
Dinner with our smartphones!

5. Feedback!
It seems that the younger you are, the more you want the feedback (the reward), and the more depressed you get if it doesn't arrive.
Imagine if nobody liked your selfie….
…. would you be depressed?
But a lot of likes means better self-esteem, and self confidence?
Is this why you have so many “friends” you don’t really know?
- someone will like your post!
- do you compete for likes?
- did you know that you can buy “likes”?

6. You become addicted to the feedback!
The science behind this behaviour
Your body has its own House Points system!
Your brain handles reward-motivated behaviour.
It does this through a chemical called dopamine:
If you get your reward, you’ll feel good
If you don’t get your reward, you’ll feel bad
dopamine
Dopamine functions as a neurotransmitter
- a chemical released by neurons (nerve cells) to send signals to other nerve cells.
dopamine is signaling feedback for predicted rewards. If you, say, have learned to associate a cue (like a crack pipe) with a hit of crack, you will start getting increases in dopamine in the nucleus accumbens in response to the sight of the pipe, as your brain predicts the reward. But if you then don’t get your hit, well, then dopamine can decrease, and that’s not a good feeling.
Abrupt dopamine increases when a person perceives stimuli that predict rewards is a dominant mechanism of reward learning within the brain—a concept similar to Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov’s dog hearing the bell and salivating at a response to stimuli,
Dopamine performs its tasks before we obtain rewards, meaning that its real job is to encourage us to act, either to achieve something good or to avoid something bad.
You become addicted to the feedback!

7. Should we be worried?
“What perhaps started as vanity, has become a deep desire for validation”
Ford Media Center
“Our online persona is needier than our real one,”
The Wall Street Journal
My worry is that our focus is becoming the digital world - we are less engaged in the physical (real) world of relationships.

8. What can we do? Crave it! Need it Want it Like it Addiction Monitor
Be aware of our “addiction” - admit that we have a problem!
Stop looking for the digital rewards!
Turn off notifications
Start a “digital diet”!
Use different ways of communicating
Everything in moderation!

9. Youtube addiction!

10. Youtube addiction!
YouTube is a great resource for teachers and students…
…. but, it can be highly addictive!
You can learn about everything on YouTube, listen to music…
You can just sit back and let millions of videos stimulate or numb your passive mind.
When you watch more and more videos, log in more and more frequently, even though you had planned to do something else, then you are addicted!
Freeing up the ICT Room – Youtube is always first!

11. If you think that you’re addicted, what can you do?
Ask yourself – do you really need to watch those Youtubers?
If you use it to listen to music, use something that plays only music!
“Digital diet”
If you are using Youtube as a research tool, don’t be distracted.
Find alternative entertainment – sport, musical instrument, art
First is to recognise you have a problem – like all addictions

12. Mobile Game
Addiction

13. Dopamine and Mobile Game Addiction
Game developers keep you hooked by using strategies designed to increase your dopamine levels.
You might get a dopamine rush from:
completing one of the 3,590 levels of CandyCrush
picking up jewels in a Fortnite match

14. Are students showing signs of video game addiction?
Fall asleep at school?
Effort and homework performance declined?
Fail to complete work on time?
Devoting an increasing amount of time to video gaming?
Thoughts preoccupied with video games?
More irritable, depressed or anxious?
Can’t seem to cut back on time spent playing video games?

15. Crave it! Need it Want it Like it Be aware!
Try and reduce your addiction level!
Limit time
Switch off
Do something else you like
Find a hobby or sport
Spend more time with friends and FAMILY!
Addiction Monitor
Crave it!
Need it
Want it
Like it

16. Guide for Parents
Computer games should only be allowed after children have taken care of other responsibilities.
To prevent computer addiction from taking hold and to regain control after it has been established, computer games should be played no more than one or two hours per day - especially during the school year.
Children addicted to computer games will happily play for hours at a time. Although this can provide valuable free time for parents, they need to make sure that computer games are not their child's primary activity or form of entertainment.
Access to computer games should be viewed as an earned privilege, not an automatic right
Regardless of who "pays" for the computer game, parents should always have final approval of any game that enters the home
If possible, dedicate one computer for homework and one for gaming, social media etc
Keep computers and consoles out of a child's bedroom
Use the "Parental Control" settings on PCs or game consoles
Consider a ban on MMO or MMORGP games (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games) – higher addiction risk

17. Guide for Parents
Parents have to take responsibility for making sure that children practice healthy computer gaming and online habits
Parental words and promises must always match parental actions. If you set a daily limit, it must be enforced. If you have outlined punishments or consequences for ignoring your rules, you must follow through with them. Likewise, promised rewards (other than money or more computer games) for following rules should be honoured.

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Open 24/24, stay the night in a comfy chair, have food delivered.

19. Perhaps e-safety week should be
e-free week?
day !