Unit-IV; Professional Sales Representative (PSR).pptx
Mentoring Youth in the Digital Age
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2. Mentoring Youth in the Digital Age
Goal of Session:
To provide better understanding of the risks and rewards of
social media in the mentoring relationship.
4. Definition of Social Media
Forms of electronic communication through
which users create online communities to
share information, ideas, personal messages,
and other content.
6. What do ou know?
Apple App
Store
Angel List Dribbbl
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Foursqua
re
Instagram
TwitterTumblrPinterest QuoraLinkedIn
VineVimeo
Facebook
YelpWindows
Google +GitHub Google Play
7. What has the research found?
•8 hours per day average
•African American & Latino – 4.5 hours more/day
•93% age 12-17 are online
•87% have one video console
•Digital divide has narrowed
•Research obsolete
8. Fears about Social Media
•Moral panic
•Safety
•Separate online persona
Disembodies Users
Psychological Distance
Anonymity
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10. Perspective
•Social media is a tool
•Educate to keep safe
•Anonymity more difficult
•Online selves mirror offline selves
12. What are the risks/rewards?
• Psychosocial Tasks
• Safety
• Ethical Implications
13. Social Media & TeamMates
Central Office has Facebook, Twitter blog and website.
Chapters/Individuals do not have permission to publicize
images/content.
Facebook friending is not allowed.
Parent permission – text/email.
Resources:
New mentor training manual
Confidentiality form
Social Media Policy
14. What is the mentor’s role?
• Face Time
• Guidance
• Education
- Role
- Sleep
- Brain Development
- Digital Literacy
Critical Thinking Skills
15. Ethical Considerations
• Is this in the best interest of the mentee?
• What are the rules/expectations?
• What right/role do the parents have?
• What right does the mentee have?
• How will it enhance or diminish the relationship?
• What level of digital competency?
• Privacy & Confidentiality
• Cultural groups have different perspectives about digital communication
• Do all mentee have equal access?
17. Resources
Learning
Khan Academy
• Mostly for learning math and science. Short videos and interactive
quizzes.
Bing/Microsoft Educator Network
• Learnings related to the always beautiful Bing background of the day.
Coursera
• Lots of classes from high school to master's level. It's sometimes fun to
just watch the videos
VSauce
• YouTube channel of a guy that raises interesting questions.
18. Coding
•Hour of Code - Probably the best way to start learning to code.
•Scratch - Kids can make videos, games, and anything else imaginable.
•Tynker - More challenge focused Scratch.
•Codecademy - More advanced.
•Our blog post
Building a website
•Google Sites - Super simple way to create a site.
Making games
•Kodu Game Lab - Really fun way to make visually stunning games for PC
and XBox.
Resources
Click on website to show videos – for Learners/Input people can get all the info.
Cite Source – Short Course
Take a minute to think about social media – how would you define it?
Handout – as a team, try to name as many as possible.
New form of communication – symbols
Six months from now – what new icons will we see and what will go away? One constant is change.
Importance of digital literacy
Prize for most number right?
Numbers for adolescents in social media from 2010 (or so).
Main idea – teenagers are online all the time.
Moral Panic - has always been around – example of when books first went to print.
Safety – early on it was easier to remain anonymous. Little understanding of how technology worked. Now it’s difficult not to leave a digital fingerprint and investigators more sophisticated.
Separate persona – Thought people would be completely different online – create new identity (Catfish)
Fear generated by the fact that:
Disembodied users – no physical presence
Psychological distance – self disclosure easier and people less inhibited
Anonymity – Create a new identity online (catfish – MTV)
Fears best illustrated by this cartoon. New Yorker - 1993
What we’ve learned from the data and our experience over time is a little perspective.
Tool – can be used for good/evil.
Education – like all things, education is the key to keeping safe. Safety as core value of TeamMates so doing whatever it takes.
Online vs. offline selves – research on chat rooms, blogs show continuity of who they are offline/online.
Youth are using social media to address the natural developmental tasks of adolescents. We can all think of examples of how youth have misused social media for these tasks – and that’s where mentors can step in.
Sexuality – Groups that push texts with facts about STD’s etc. to help youth
Identity – Gender, ethnic, sexual – Luxury of the rich? Not universal
Intimacy – Self disclosure important with peers and romantic partners
Autonomy – Individuate from parents – can go both ways (cell phones as example of helicopter parents vs. figure it out) Particularly American ideal – some society’s you never seprate from the group. Premature autonomy may mean you never learn to depend on others/work as a team.
Let’s think about the mentors role as they relate to the psychosocial tasks. How could the mentor be helpful to their mentee and then what could be some of the risks they encounter?
Divide room in half – risks/rewards
How could social media be helpful towards these tasks?
What are the risks?
Safety – how could the mentor help in this regard?
Give appropriate boundaries – teaching opportunities about self-disclosure, stranger danger, peer relationships
Role reversal/empowerment - Mentee can teach mentor how to utilize apps/tools online
Internet knowledge – how easily things can be disseminated and how long they last – long term consequences.
What might be some of the risks? (example of shooting, examples of images, example of person going to school as a TM mentor and asking for a mentee by name, example of the person giving rides home, etc).
Ethical Implications:
If your mentee googled you, what would they find?
- Unintended self-disclosure
- How would this effect your relationship?
- Threats to role modeling/confidentiality
If you your matches were facebook friends, what ethical issues might ensue?
- Mandatory reporting – what is the online responsibility?
- Issues of trust
- Boundary Blurring
- Privacy Settings – Need a PHD
- Potential changes in relationship – frequency of meetings, what if you don’t respond right away, see something on mentee’s site?
Core value of safety – until we have digital literacy training and a way to track/monitor social media, have limitations.
Rources Handout – policy with training manual page and confidentiality form.
Face Time
Value of mentoring – increasing over time.
Identify the strengths/ real self – build confidence
Guidance
- Issues arise – nonjudgmental
- As kids are exploring their psychosocial tasks, a mentor as a gift. Mistakes will happen and mentors can see these as learning opportunities to redirect.
- Critical thinking skills
Education
- Role – positional authority – mentor/mentee not equal relationship. The mentor has the power as the adult and they need to remember that when you step back from the world’s view, the idea of texting or communic
- Sleep –
Mentors can encourage mentees to turn everything off at night. Sleep will help in a multitude of ways.
- Brain Development
Adolescent brain is like a car with no brakes. Mentor can be the break to help think through long term consequences and risks.
- Digital Literacy
Mentors/mentees need training in digital literacy.
Miscommunication that can happen – emoticons with texting – example of Nancy with all caps.
Provide scenarios:
You find out a mentor/mentee have friended each other on facebook and are regularly chatting via social media. They have a strong relationship and the facebook connection seems to only boost their relationship. What do you do?
You see a posting by a mentor that includes a picture of the mentor with their mentee in a setting that looks like a home setting. The mentor shares what a great experience they’ve had together in TeamMates and shares the mentee’s name.
A parent calls, upset that their child’s mentor is calling and texting their child’s cell phone early in the morning and late at night. What do you do?
A mentor posts details about a recent visit at the school with their mentee that includes the child’s name, grade and school. They rave about their mentee and share what a great experience it is to be in TeamMates.
Share examples of postings on TM facebook – creepers.
Example of people going to schools claiming to be TM mentors.
Websites for pedophiles saying what organizations are easy to become part of.
Welcome & thank everyone for coming
Introduce Staff
Items for purchase: Books, coffee mugs, posters for walk, etc.
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