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Raising Children in the Digital Age

Raising Children in the Digital Age. How does technology affect cognitive, social, and emotional development?. What technology influences our children?. How Much Do You Know About:. Facebook Twitter Instagram Snapchat Tumblr Google+ Vine Wanelo (Want Need Love) Kik Messenger Oovoo

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Raising Children in the Digital Age

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  1. Raising Children in the Digital Age How does technology affect cognitive, social, and emotional development?

  2. What technology influences our children?

  3. How Much Do You Know About: Facebook Twitter Instagram Snapchat Tumblr Google+ Vine Wanelo (Want Need Love) Kik Messenger Oovoo Ask.fm

  4. Current Research Children spend 8-10 hours a day using some sort of media Approximately 7.5 million children under the age of 13 have a Facebook account 30% more tracking cookies are being used on kids than general audiences Early research shows a correlation between the amount of time a child spends online with aggression, sexual behavior, disordered eating, and academic difficulties,

  5. Foundations for Relating, Communicating and Thinking • Attention, engagement and emotional interactions • The ability to focus warmly on and pleasurably relate to another person and to initiate interactions • Continuous purposeful social interactions and shared problem-solving, including joint attention • A combination of gestures and/or words employed as part of a continuous flow of social interactions in order to find something, negotiate, play with someone or meet a new challenge. This includes joint attention and reading the social and emotional intentions of others

  6. Foundations for Relating, Communicating and Thinking • Creative and logical use of ideas • Ideas used to understand and express needs, wishes, intentions or feeling. In an older child or adult, this may be seen in meaningful conversation. This involves the ability to connect ideas together logically so that pretend play and conversations make sense. • Abstract and reflective thinking • The use of higher level thinking skills, including giving multiple reasons for feelings or events, dealing with degrees of feelings or thoughts reflecting on one’s own and other’s feelings and thoughts and making inferences (drawing new reasoned conclusions) • Dr. Stanley Greenspan and Dr. Serena wieder

  7. Did You Know? The frontal lobe of the brain is not fully developed until the age of 25. This part of the brain regulates decision-making, emotions, problem-solving and purposeful behaviors

  8. What Can You Do Today? Develop reasonable rules and restrictions together Connect with them online and monitor their profiles or accounts often Don’t raise a troll Teach them reputation management Teach them anger management Keep kids in sight, Computer use in a common area Do your homework Set a good example Make time to unplug as a family

  9. commonsensemedia.org Our 10 Beliefs We believe in media sanity, not censorship. We believe that media has truly become "the other parent" in our kids' lives, powerfully affecting their mental, physical, and social development. We believe in teaching our kids to be savvy, respectful and responsible media interpreters, creators, and communicators.  We can’t cover their eyes but we can teach them to see. We believe parents should have a choice and a voice about the media our kids consume and create. Every family is different but all need information. We believe that the price for free and open media is a bit of extra homework for families. Parents need to know about the media their kids use and need to teach responsible, ethical behavior as well as manage overall media use. We believe that through informed decision making, we can improve the media landscape one decision at a time. We believe appropriate regulations about right time, right place, and right manner exist. They need to be upheld by our elected and appointed leaders. We believe in age-appropriate media and that the media industry needs to act responsibly as it creates and markets content for each audience. We believe ratings systems should be independent and transparent for all media. We believe in diversity of programming and media ownership

  10. Talking Back to Facebook http://video.foxnews.com/v/1646798880001/talking-back-to-facebook/#sp=show-clips http://vimeo.com/40542873 (great video from the author of “Talking Back to Facebook” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/common-sense-media/11-sites-and-apps-kids-are-heading-to-after-facebook_b_3991614.html (sites and apps gaining popularity with kids and teens)

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