Digital Intelligence

DIGITAL INTELLIGENCE Technologies for an innovative future

DIGITAL INTELLIGENCE

Contents Family expectations......................................3 The Beacon App............................................5 Family zone....................................................7 Your daughter needs her sleep................. 8 Keep your daughter safe............................. 9 Clever comebacks..................................... 10 Helpfulness of adult actions..................... 11 Keep passwords secure.............................12 LATE Model...................................................13 Risk minimisation........................................14 Encouraging family activities....................15 Social Media - Tips for parents................ 16 Check your online reputation..................17

Written by Dr Kate Hadwen, Principal, Pymble Ladies’ College.

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Having family expectations is critically important No rules for internet use at home?

Young people are statistically more likely to engage in and / or be cyberbullied.

Mobile phone numbers 1. Your family, neighbours, Co-curricular 2. Police – 131 444 3. Kids Helpline – 1800 55 1800 4. Lifeline – 13 11 14 5. School’s main reception – 02 8955 7799

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Establishing family expectations • Take control – your daughter’s technology usage is a privilege, not a right!

• Have clear expectations and discuss these with your daughter regularly • Share iTunes accounts until your child is in Year 10 • You have a right to know their password and check their phones regularly • Check ‘location services’ are turned to ‘off’ for camera • Thinking time (3 seconds is all it takes) • Save evidence by taking screenshots • SOS numbers – sporting teams, local police etc.

• Monitor technology usage in quieter spaces • Collect technology at bedtime – use old fashioned alarms to wake up • Stay engaged

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Create your family agreement today using the Beacon App

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Pymble offers free family packs to Family Zone for parents of students in Kindergarten to Year 7

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Your daughter needs her sleep

Poorer Academics Anxiety Depression

Minimum 8 to 10 hours sleep per night

Routine No screens 1 hour before bed

No more than 90 minutes extra on weekends

Carskadon 2014; Carskadon, Acebo & Jenni 2004; Mercer, Merritt & Cowell 1998; Strauch & Meier 1988 Chaput, J. P., Dutil, C., & Sampasa-Kanyinga, H. (2018). Sleeping hours: what is the ideal and how does age impact this?. Nature and science of sleep, 10, 421–430.https://doi.org/10.2147/NSS.S163071. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 61:10 (2020), pp 1126–1137

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Keep your daughter safe

14%

of young people have sent sexually explicit images

25%

of young people have received an unwanted sexually explicit image

28%

11.5%

of young people aged 14-17 use mobile phones after midnight

of young people are sexually solicited online

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Clever comebacks to sexting requests

Too dark?

Save

THE BANDWIDTH

Download a life

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Overall reported helpfulness of adult actions The MOST and ONLY helpful strategies:

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Listened to me

Gave me advice (NOT told me what to do)

Checked in with me afterwards to see if the behaviour had stopped.

Davis, S. & Nixon, C. (2010). The Youth Voice Project. Retrieved on 22 September 2010 from http://www. youthvoiceproject.com/YVPMarch2010.pdf

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Keep passwords secure

52%

of teens share their passwords with friends

Once other people have your password they can: • Send messages to all your contacts • Send messages to strangers from you • Use your phone to take inappropriate images and videos.

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Tips for parents: LATE Model This is made up of four steps:

Listen Acknowledge concerns Talk about options End with encouragement

Adapted from the work of Michael Tunnecliffe, 2000

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Risk minimisation It’s important to have some idea where your children are ‘hanging out’ online.

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Keep encouraging outdoor family activities Top 3 activities performed at least once a week: • Television or movies 90% • Social media or internet activities 78% • Craft, reading or home activity 46% Top 3 things Australians want to do less of: • Social media or internet activities 18% • Watch less television or movies 13% • Play games on Xbox, etc. 10% Top 4 things Australians would like to do more of: • Beach/picnic 47% • Go to a park/walk 42% • Outdoor event (movie/concert) 42% • Outdoor activity 30%

McCrindle research (2015) - Australians and free time: indoors and outdoors

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Social Media - Tips for parents • Listen, listen, listen • Be engaged, ask questions, learn how to play their games • Trust first – but give realistic consequences for poor behaviour • Discuss the risks with them • Be on the look-out for changes of behaviour

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Key Message Check your online reputation – as a family Managing your digital reputation • • • • • • • •

Search different sites Use nicknames Search in different ways Try mobile phone numbers Search regularly Do an image search Search email addresses Search for your home address

Try the following: www.google.com/images www.google.com/groups www.google.com/blogsearch

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