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Yes, she has two: one as an alarm clock, the other for "everything else" — e-mail, texts, Facebook updates, Twitter "tweets," checking her bank balance.

"It's always on, and glued to my body

Such is life in the post-Web 2.0 world

This hyper-connectedness is fueled by the rise in social media

More than four in five U.S. adults online use social media at least once a month

market potential is huge

95% of 1,217 business decision makers surveyed late last year said they plan to use social networks.

"The (140-character limit to post a comment on Twitter) is symbolic of people's short attention span

t's common for individuals to search the same topic multiple times a day because the flow of information is so great

By late 2008, 20% of U.S. households were mobile-only, compared with 7% in the first half of 2005

The arrival of new and improved media almost always foments behavioral changes

Those born in 1978 through 1997 — the so-called Net Generation— are the largest generation in size

Don Tapscott, author of Grown Up Digital.

Unplugging is virtually, no pun intended, impossible

you feel disconnected

The University of Melbourne, however, says people who use the Internet for personal reasons at work are 9% more productive than those who don't.

we are all experts

hardest part

We all went through the system

To change a system that everyone knows, we need to change the thinking of everyone in the community

Elementary Parent Technology Coffee events

The first Wednesday of every month parents are invited in to chat about technology and learning….more specifically about learning, but technology is a part of that. This is part of relearning a community.

rethink what it means to be a learner today

Systematic change means changing the whole system

t’s the small steps, the conversations with all the stakeholders

What did they want to know: How to see what their kids were doing on the computer without them knowing about it.

20 minute presentation on why students are so connected

seniors were born the same year the Internet was invented

using YouTube as a life lone learning tool

Internet Safety

web based library resources

Google Search Skills

three hours

At one point we stopped to explain tabbed browsing and the back button.

first time in the history

re-educating our community as well on what it means to learn in today’s world.

arents had taken an “Ignorance is Bliss” approach

what they really wanted was to find a way to spy on their kids.

approach many schools take….if we just ignore the changes happening then maybe they will go away

the Internet and all of its content is not going anywhere anytime soon

the gap between what the students know and what the adults know continues to widen

parents have asked me where should they start. My answer is always the same. Start with your own children. Grab a pen and piece of paper and really care about these spaces. Have them walk you through their Facebook account

Try and learn and understand what they do there

Ask the questions:

What do you think this pictures says about you?

Do you know all (number of friends) of your ‘friends?

Can you trust everyone on your ‘friends’

What does that update say about you as a person?

s that who you want to be known as?

have your child help you set up your own Facebook account

the most powerful moment for many parents

Limiting access to the computer is also not a bad thin

students see the computer as a ‘social gateway‘

context changes

The conversations haven’t changed…or at least haven’t changed that much, we just need to update our vocabulary and understand these social spaces are the new ‘hang outs’ for students.

Kids want to talk about their friends….we just need to ask

we just need to update our conversations…but the conversations are the same.

kids are kids. The language might have changed, the conversations might be different, but in the end they just want someone to care about them