1. Digital Life: Our Kids’ Connected Culture

2. Socializing Communicating Creating Playing Exploring Learning

3. content Content Pushes boundariesWorld at fingertipsNegative health effects

4. Mobile Anywhere and anytime access

5. Interactive Kids connect and collaborate Norms of communication Addiction

6. Scale Everything takes place before a vast audience “15 minutes of fame” You don’t know who will see your information

7. Searchable Easy to find information Kids don’t always think before they post Damage to reputationAccess to information

8. Anonymity Identities are unknownCyberbullyingSelf-explorationSexual predators

9. Replicable Everything can be cut and pastedInformation can go viralSexting

10. Persistent Once something is out there, it’s hard to erase

11. So that means our kids are leaving digital footprints

12. Raising Digital Citizens

13. Embrace their world Encourage balanced use Monitor media use as best you can Discuss what sites they can visit Basic Rules of the Road No cyberbullying

14. Explain that nothing is really private Set up privacy settings Keep passwords private Protecting Personal Privacy

15. Teach kids to ask the who, what, when, and how questions Is a person who they say they are? Balance research sources Point out all the ways marketers target them What Kids Can Trust and Believe

16. Easy-to-use reviews and ratings of media titles Parenting advice and education Common Sense Media Advocacy www.commonsense.org

17. Raise good digital citizens!