Keynote: Robyn Treyvaud: Developing responsible ethical and resilient digizens

The Presenter: Robin Treyvaud
Her bookmarks on Delicious http://delicious.com/rtreyvaud
http://www.cybersafeworld.com/


The Gist:

• Online is a place, not a thing, to our students
• Average young person has 94 contacts in phone, 78 people on messenger and 86 in his or her social network online
• Technology has enabled kids to have more and closer relationships that ever before. Almost all students use tech to enhance face to face relationships.
  
• Tech is normalised. It s part of their ives and they neither 'like' it or 'dislike' it
• This generation is capable of self regulation when educated about risk.
• Parents don't have the skills to keep up with what there kids are doing. Kids maintain their privacy.
• Kids will always explore risky behaviour and some will do this online. We need to educate appropriately.
• We cannot make the internet completely safe
• Have to develop responsible and ethical digtal citizenship. e need to embed it into our current curricula
•  Parent and child views of what is bad about the internet diverge
• The internet is not the cause of problems, it is just a medium that amplifies what is already there. People with issues have a voice where they did not before.
• Online victimisers are most often known to the victim, they are their 'friends'
• Online bullying starts about year 2, pirating starts about year 4, middle school students experience 
• Solution does not rely on technology but on sociology and anthropology
•  Kids don't tell parents when they see pornography because don't want to get into trouble. Most have seen it by the age of 12.
• Sexting: Children biggest producers of child pornography. Minors face criminal charges for passing on or receiving these messages. End up on a sex offenders register
• Thats not cool http://www.thatsnotcool.com/
• Students need to realise that everything that they post will be there forever. Students think that this is not so. These digital footprints are a character reference for the future.
• Triple J Hack half hour : My Face. Good link to use with students
• www.digizen.org cyberbullying resources with more video. Good stuff. Resonates with kids.
• Need age appropriate codes of conduct. Need to find space in curriculum. 
• digicitizen-wiki.com
• www.cybersmart.gov.au

My Thoughts:
She had lots of great research to back her up, check out her Delicious links above.
Let students loose on the internet, but educate them.