Orientate parents to our changing world driven by technology. Use this presentation along with roadtrips to various social media sites using your computer, mobile phone, and tablet showing how people seamlessly move among the tools interacting with others, sharing, etc. Emphasize the important of parents learning to drive these tools so they can teach and support their kids online. Don't be afraid and ban, rather learn, embrace, and guide.

1. Social Media Explained
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Brian Kuhn
My Coordinates…
Director of Technology and CIO
Vancouver School Board
bkuhn@vsb.bc.ca
@bkuhn
http://www.shift2future.com
http://www.slideshare.net/bkuhn
http://www.linkedin.com/in/kuhnbrian

3. What do you know about Social Media?

4. Brian Kuhn
Director of Technology / CIO
bkuhn@vsb.bc.ca
https://prezi.com/user/bkuhn

5. We live in
unprecedented times!
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6. 3.6 B people on earth
First computer chess tournament
0 (yes zero) personal computers sold
0 e-mails sent
0 blog posts
0 Facebook users
BG (before Google)
1970
http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/1970
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7. Nov 4, 2013 around 8:42pm
7.19 B people on the earth
260,165,835 personal computers sold this year
565,071 TVs sold today
4,274,432 cell phones sold today
2,839,834,102 internet users on earth
156,231,286,923 e-mail messages sent today
2,822,456 blog posts today
1,150,000,000 + Facebook users
3,103,823,201 Google searches today
453,595,223 Tweets sent today
http://www.worldometers.info/
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8. “If you make some very logical, and even
conservative, assumptions about where
technology is likely to lead in the coming
years, much of the conventional wisdom
about what the future will look like
becomes unsupportable” The Lights in the Tunnel (Kindle
222)

9. History has proven time and again that, where
technology is concerned, something can be
impossible since the dawn of civilization and
then suddenly, in the blink of an eye, become
possible. The Lights in the Tunnel (Kindle 2998)

10. © Designs by Shell

11. MECHANICAL CALCULATOR (1645)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%27s_Calculator
Shift to digital - it's an
app, a web page; early
electronic calculators were
$1000 - some schools had
a lab of them, now they’re
free!
Shift to digital - e-mail,
texting, Facebook,
Twitter, etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telegraphy
TELEGRAPH (1838)

12. TYPEWRITER (1868)
Shift to digital - touch, voice,
and hand motion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typewriter

13. TELEPHONE (1876)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone
Shift to digital - personal
digital assistant, the
phone has disappeared
amongst a powerful
general purpose
computer in your hand
http://www.samsung.com/us/video/tvs/UN55C8000XFXZA
TV, Movie, Radio,
Web, Video Phone,
Apps, …
TELEVISION (1927)
1958
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television

14. INTERNET (1970--1975)
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“The Web provides a platform for networking human minds.
Printing allowed people to know. The Web enables people to
collaborate and to learn collectively.” Macrowikinomics (kindle 566)

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16. Doubles
every
11/2 – 3
years
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http://www2.sims.berkeley.edu/research/projects/how-much-info-2003/execsum.htm#stored

17. What is the most
profound
technological
change you've
experienced in
your lifetime?
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18. Becomes
When I was a student…
Expensive “expert
only” knowledge has
evolved into free
collaboratively created
knowledge…

19. http://www.flickr.com/photos/langwitches/4211065057/

21. Benedict XVI
Francis

22. istockphoto.com # 18713708

24. is not bad or good, it
depends on how it is
used and for what
purpose
Slang
Mobile has
made it easy,
fast, and
addictive
Age limits for using SM
are typically stated as
13+… ethical dilemma

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Social Media Road Trip

26. Danger Lurks…
Pictures
Reputations
Privacy
Permanency
Consequences
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27. flickr-com-photos-wespeck-4960579336
Communicating used to be so simple…

28. ‘Pix it or it didn’t happen’
Inappropriate snaps
Sexting
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Cameras are in Everything!

29. A bad reputation is just
a click away…
everything is visible to
millions, including
friends and family.

32. ‘The internet isn't written in
pencil, it's written in pen’

33. Parents should approve of the information their
younger kids put online
It will become increasingly more difficult to
manage these as your kids become teenagers
When should a real picture be included?
What should your child write about themselves?
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Help your Kids Create Profiles

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35. Would you let your kids learn to drive
a car on their own?
Teach your kids
how to ‘drive’
the Internet and
Social Media!

36. “Take Care of Yourself”
“Take Care of Others”
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Social Media Code of Conduct

37. Social Media (SM), what to do?
Join and participate in SM tools
Follow and Friend your kids
Talk with your kids about SM
Discuss bullying and how
it can be amplified online
Be a SM role model!
Don’t ban, teach
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38. flickr - langwitches - digital portfolio - 4859583721