Empowering teenagers for a safer usage of Social Media in the family and in the schools. (PPT by Manuel Villalobos) An educational program: • to Promote the rights of teenagers through a training program in the use of the media. • to Empower their character for a safer usage of Social Media in the family and in the schools. • to make Sustainable their relation with ICT

1. Stop violence in social media
Safe Social Media project
at a glance
Empowering teenag ers
for a safer usage of Social Media
in the family and in the schools

2. Social Media
• Information • Intimacy
• Immediacy • Sociability
• Interaction • Personality
• …

3. Insight
• 91,5% of teenagers go online at home.
• 72% of parents doesn't play videogames with
their children.
• 50% of teenagers doesn't receive advices from
their parents on the right use of social media.
• 48,6 % admits writing& talking to strangers.

4. Insight
• 27,6 % doesn't pay attention on the time and
habbits of their teens on tv, videogames,
internet...
• 44% of parents have educated in the right use of
Social Media.
• 91,5% of teens go online at Home, only 40,8%
go at school.

5. Opportunities & Risk

6. Opportunities & Risk
• Falling into so- called multi-tasking, lack of
concentration, poor time management…
• Superficiality: The brevity and shallowness of
the messages generated.
• Individualism: Keeps the management of the
social networks closed to the advice of parents
so that children get inappropriate advice,
preventing them from enjoying even more of the
advantages of the social networks.

7. Opportunities & Risk
• Immaturity: Failing to develop a mature and
responsible attitude on networks. It transforms
the opportunities into threats to oneself and
others, promoting bad curiosity, disrespect,
lying...
• Vulnerable: Exposure to violence,
pornography, pedophilia, grooming,
ciberbullying...
• Right sense: One is not able to distinguish
whether the response is adequate or not.

8. Summary
• This creates uncertainty and education
becomes unbalanced in relation to the child’s
age and the wishes of their parents.
• Internet and new digital technologies
represent a useful tool learning. the
for At
same time, a complex
is and
eemingly unregulated.

9. Summary
• One way, then, where you can find great
benefits, but also situations and risk behaviors.
• It is therefore important raise awareness
to
among teachers about the importance and
benefits of safe and responsibleuse of new
technologies schools.
in

10. Summary
• In our opinion, however, there are four
critical elements:
2. children often use new technologies with
little awareness;
2. parents often do not have adequate
levels expertise new media
of on and
struggle play an
to effective education;

11. Summary
1. the school does not always have skills
the
to able to
be give very own contribution.
4. lack of ability on the part teachers take
of to
advantage the
of new technologies the
in
learning process.
•The usefulness of carrying out educational
an
program teachers is that will provide
for we
theoretical and practical tools the education
for
of students and families today and those who
for
attend classes the future these teachers.
in of

12. An educational program
• to Promote the rights of teenagers through a
training program in the use of the media.
• to Empower their character for a safer usage of
Social Media in the family and in the schools.
• to make Sustainable their relation with ICT

13. An educational program
Where
• Natural way to learn
• High authority
• Large Experience
• Schools (profesors, teens and parents)
• Sustainability

14. An educational program
How
• Analysis of the context and best practices.
• Search of available scientific data and reports
on situation and prevention of violence in the
social media. More than 500 scientific articles,
papers and educational highlights related to
responsible digital citizenship, violence
(cyberbullying, racism, pornography,...), habits,
consumption, tips, etc... in Social Media.
• Analysis focus group (parents asoc.,
pedagogues, psychologists, educators and
experts in new technologies.

15. An educational program
• The Overall Goal of Safe Social Media is:
Reduce exposure to violence for children and
adolescents through an educational program in
the use of social media.

16. Safe Social Media
• To navigate without drowning
• To empower their decission making
• To increase their personal responsibility
• To promote their interaction making them think
on the positive and negative models transmitted
through video games, social networks and the
Internet.
• To reduce the impact of violence contents in the
social media

18. The educational program

19. The educational program
• For children/teens aged 12 to 17 years
• Online questionnaire
• Training at schools
– Presentation (15 min)
Internet and social networks module (30 min)
Videogames module (30 min)
TV and media module (30 min)
Conclusion (15 min)
• Safe Social Media Contest

20. Online questionnaire
• A Questionnaire for the assessment of the
educational project
• The survey has three main goals:
3. to improve the educational program,
4. to analyze the effectiveness of the program
5. to know more about the lifestyle of the
teenagers in the Social Media.

21. Online questionnaire
• To measure the impact of the pedagogical
intervention we need identify a set of indicators
to assess the results of programs and awareness
campaigns, to improve efficiency and develop a
list of good practice.

22. Training in schools
• The goal is to empower
individuals involved in the
program, by providing them
with critical and decision-
making tools, so that they
can, independently and / or
with the support of
responsible adults, avoid or
limit potential risks of social
media.

23. Training in schools
• Interaction • Risk & opportunities
• Cases study
• Digital citizenship
• Think on consecuences
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24. Training in schools

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27. Safe Social Media Contest

28. • At the end of the experience carried out in
each school we draw a report for parents and
teachers in which we collect some conclusion
on the reaction and answer of the teens
during the lesson and how they can influence
in their character and lifestyles.

29. The opinion of teachers
• "It's a good way to get into the world
where many children don't have adult
models: the use of internet, the social
network, and also, the videogames which
are often unfamiliar to the adults".

30. • "I think it was a great opportunity to have participated
in the project Safe Social Media. It made the children
understand the dangers they are exposed to in using
the social media inappropriately. It also made them
assume certain risks with respect to their "privacy". It
allowed the teachers to see the children in a more
complete way, being an area unknown to the teachers,
and yet with a big influence on the children. It's a
world which frequently escapes us. I've seen many
boys unmotivated in class, absent- minded, and
sometimes, I dare say, hooked on these topics, and we
don't know how to handle the situation".

31. • “What has been appreciated very well is the
positive tone of the sessions, and the continued
reference and invitation to a dialogue between the
children and their parents and teachers. The
sessions made them see ICT as allies towards an
integral educational formation. Encouraging the
correct use of the social media permits the children
to discover, to develop and to grow in positive
values such as sense of responsibility, conscience,
maturity, solidarity, respect for others and
intimacy”.

32. The opinion of manangers
• “Es una magnífica forma de adquirir hábitos de
conducta construidos desde la diferenciación de lo
que conviene y no. Iniciativas como la de Safe Social
Media son imprescindibles, ya que actúan no sólo en
el plano de orientación entre los menores y su
relación con las nuevas tecnologías, también en las
ventajas que para los padres supone la inmersión en
la cultura de Internet, para que desde dentro puedan
aprender y compartir con sus hijos.”
Francisco Ruiz, Family Safety Center, Google

33. The opinion of manangers
• Sergio Chiarla sottolinea che la “chiave per una
formazione equilibrata è che i genitori giochino con i
figli. Nel gioco, i nostri figli ci mostrano e
condividono valori e atteggiamenti che noi come
genitori abbiamo bisogno di conoscere per orientarli
meglio”.
Sergio Chiarla, trainer of Safe Social Media

34. Thank you for your attention
We are sure that with Safe Social Media we will promote
a responsible use of Social Media and as a result we will
be creating social capital in the family and in the school.
• http:// www.safesocialmedia.eu
• http://www.facebook.com/SafeMediaEU
http://twitter.com/SafeMediaEU