1. Tamasine Preece
Head of PSE and Careers
Secondary School Support Teacher –
Bridgend Healthy Schools Team
Research Student – Swansea University –
Schools of Geography/Medicine

2. Digital Natives?
These kids are different. They study, work, write and interact with each
other in ways that are very different from the ways you did growing up.
Palfrey and Gasser, 2008: 2

3. The Byron Report
At a public swimming pool we have gates, put up signs, have lifeguards
and shallow ends, but we also teach children how to swim.
March 2008

5. Digital Natives are used to receiving information really fast. They like to
parallel process and multi-task. They prefer their graphics before their
text rather than the opposite. They prefer random access (like
hypertext). They function best when networked. They thrive on instant
gratification and frequent rewards. They prefer games to “serious”
work. (Does any of this sound familiar?)
Prensky, 2001:2

6. Today's technology is already producing a marked shift in the way we
think and behave, particularly among the young.
…the damage that the gadget-filled, pharmaceutically-enhanced 21st
century is doing to our brains.
Baroness Susan Greenfield. 2010

7. Drawing upon exhaustive research, detailed portraits, and historical
and social analysis, The Dumbest Generation presents an
uncompromisingly realistic study of the young American mind at this
critical juncture. The book also lays out a compelling vision of how we
might address its deficiencies.
To fail to do so may well mean sacrificing our future to the least curious
and intellectual generation in national history.
Mark Bauerlein, 2007

8. ‘…a liquid world’
The world I call ‘liquid’ because, like all liquids it cannot stand still and
keep its shape for long.
Bauman, 2011:1

9. Technology as Moral Objects
Automobile-owning whites of “upper” and “comfortable middle”
classes, as he called them, would be free to use the parkways for
recreation and commuting. Poor people and blacks, who normally used
public transit, were kept off the roads because the twelve-foot tall
buses could not handle the overpasses. One consequence was to limit
access of racial minorities and low-income groups to Jones Beach,
[Robert] Moses’ widely acclaimed public park.
Langdon Winner, 1986:2

10. New media alters perceptions of risk – allowing the individual to travel
further from the family home, change plans at a moments notice; it
creates an illusion of safety.
New media allows the individual to make ‘real’ the healthy fantasies
and obsessions of adolescence.
The currency of new media is ‘Likes’ and ‘Comments,’ without which
one is invisible.
New media adultifies children but infantalises adults.

11. New media alters perceptions of time and space – time is accelerated,
emotions heightened.
Real-life, contextualised experience of health education, delivered by a
real life, caring practitioner is a child’s birthright.

12. Risk

13. Risk
In countries where parents are more likely to use the internet daily,
children are also more likely to do so – and vice versa. The more a
parent uses the internet, the more likely their child is to use it often,
thus gaining the digital skills and benefits from going online.
More skills are associated with more, not less, risk…
Livingston and Haddon, 2012

16. Snaking – Dating 2.0

20. “First thing I’ll do if I meet a new person I’ll, ‘What’s your name?’ I’ll
add them on Facebook.”
“You can talk to someone, you can know everything about them, you
can be on webcams and stuff. It’s so close to being real but it’s not yet
real. You can know everything about this person. They can be your
best friend. You can never meet them and when you go out with them
it can be the most awkward situation ever, just because it’s not real, is
it? You need real.”

21. ‘I can’ – turning dreams into a sense of
reality

24. Social Suicide

25. Writing myself into being…
‘If you’re not on MySpace, you don’t exist’
-Skyler, 18
-boyd, 2007

28. “You look at your profile picture and you’re like, I have six likes on this
bad boy, and then someone else who’s like plastered in make-up with
their boobs hanging out is like, I’ve got seven thousand million likes…”
“I find that when I’m on Facebook I’m always thinking, I need to change
myself, and then I realize that a lot of people aren’t liking who I am and
I feel the need to change myself.”
“My profile picture is a bit of a mickey take out of people with big
eyebrows and lovely duck lips.”

30. “It’s just being really provocative. If you want to annoy someone, do it
on Facebook because everyone will see it and everyone will get
involved in it.”
“Other people are like, ‘Oh yeah, carry on, keep saying stuff…’”
“…I think it might be more bringing attention on yourself because the
people that are commenting are more likely to be, ‘Ah yeah. Such a
legend. Did you see what he did last night?’”
“Because then more people will add the person, which is a popularity
thing.”

31. “…It brings me a sense of enjoyment. I’m like, you acted like an idiot;
I’ll make you look like one.”

32. “ I genuinely thought that I was [bi-sexual] but then the next day –
Boom! – It was gone, right? I felt really certain that day that I was
99.9% certain about it but then the next day it was as if I didn’t do it.”

34. You Only Live Once

35. Y.O.L.O (or Time is Running Out…)
Similar to carpe diem, it implies that one should enjoy life, even if that
entails taking risks.
Wikipedia, accessed Feb, 2013

36. “Twelve year olds having a WKD. Seventeen year olds having a line of
coke.”
“Sex is the main one, probably.”
“People want to live, like as soon as possible and, I don’t know, it’s a
really weird thing… they just want to get it out the way, out the way
before what? I don’t think there’s anything there stopping them. I just
think they want to be part of it. They want to see what it is and
experience it.”

37. More Knowledgeable
Others

38. More Knowledgeable Others

40. Erikson
The playing adult steps sideward into another reality; the playing child
advances forward to new stages of mastery....Child's play is the
infantile form of the human ability to deal with experience by creating
model situations and to master reality by experiment and planning.
(1950)

41. “When you have old people on Facebook they’re trying to be…”
“Like kids, yeah. They say all the LOLS.”
“My dad does more on Facebook that I do. Every time I go on there he’s
done a status, pictures…”
“My dad goes on to snake. My dad’s lonely so he may as well.”
“And like someone would come into school and go ‘oh yeah, seen your
mum wrote on your wall.’ Yeah, don’t remind me.”

42. “There’s like this little website thing on Facebook and its got statuses
that you can write and my mum finds one that like how she feels, but
then she don’t like put like all her emotions out like some people do,
she just finds a little status and puts it up. Or she’ll say… they only
thing she’ll put up is ah ‘going to see, um, my blossom’, like, you
know her grandchildren. That’s the only thing she’ll write. And then
she’ll just go on games. That’s it.”
“My Nan uses Facebook but that’s just for games. But games only.”

43. “My dad tells me [about his private life] cause it’s kind of my policy as a
boy thing, isn’t it? So while I tell him about kind of what I’m doing and
then he’ll tell me what he’s doing and stuff like that.”
“I think my mum and I have this weird bond when it comes to Facebook
because me and my mum are both in love with two dance crews
called Influence and Addict… I’ll put videos up, I’ll share videos and my
mum will be like, ‘Oh my God – look at this dance crew. They’re
amazing!’ and share my videos that I’ve shared…”
“I’ve got my musical taste from my parents. Even when I was in the
womb they were playing stuff like System of a Down and Queens of
the Stone Age so I just came out as a mosher baby.”

44. Getting mum back on the dating scene.
Boots 2012

45. Online Resources

46. “How do I delete this? I didn’t mean to type this here. I meant to type
it in Google.”

47. “Nothing. I don’t find nothing like, I don’t find anything. Anything, any
advice over the internet…don’t do, it don’t do nothing for me. I’d
rather actual just talk to someone face to face. It just feels a lot easier,
like I can just let everything out and they’ll understand. They’ll help
you back out, like just talking to a computer screen isn’t going to
work.”

48. “I’d prefer to speak to someone that I know even if it’s like a teacher.”
“They put so many big words in…”
“That makes me feel like no one… literally no one cares, like no one
cares what I’m doing and stuff and that just makes me feel a bit more
depressed but then yet again I’m just like ‘if you don’t care I’m not
going to care about you’”.

49. “It’s quite to ask difficult questions cos if you want to be secretive and
you want to ask a friend specifically you might go on MSN… Photo
munch where you can take a photo of it and then people upload it
onto Facebook anyway… People can find it and put it on Facebook so
you still don’t have that privacy which I find kind of bad.”

50. “They [children] don’t get as well emotionally developed, socially
developed in the real world, like they spend all their time on
Facebook and they can’t seem to hold a conversation with anyone
else… If you start using it from a young age you don’t develop those
skills.”

51. Cardiff council cuts: Pool, libraries,
Flat Holm Island hit 1st Feb, 2013 BBC News WALES
Ending the subsidy of music lessons in schools, along with several other
services to schools.
Closing the swimming pool in Splott.
Stopping visits to Flat Holm and selling the wildlife haven, five miles off
the Cardiff coast.
Reducing the number of days some libraries operate.
Ending the Big Weekend music event.
Closing the Victorian public toilets in The Hayes in the city centre.
Welsh language grants, including for Tafwyl, Cardiff's annual Welsh
festival.

52. “…it is clear that new technologies are crucial in driving up
learner performance and ensuring they have the best skills
for life. Children and young people want to learn using the
latest technologies available to them. It’s not unreasonable
for learners, parents and teachers to expect that the
technology they use in their daily life can also be used in
education.
“I have said before that schools need to learn and share the
best ideas. They also need to have access to appropriate
technology and have the skills to use digital technology to
make the most out of it.”
Leighton Andrews, June 2012

53. Wireless tablet PCs for every Cardiff school.
The tablets PCs will be used in the classroom, across the
curriculum, Cardiff council says Schools in Cardiff are to be
given wireless tablet devices for every pupil to be able to use
in a £3m project aimed at bringing teaching up to date. The
touch screen computers will be used in classrooms for work
across the curriculum, but parents will also be offered the
chance to buy them. Cardiff council says every school in the
city will also have high-speed wireless internet.
BBC News WALES July, 2012

54. Psychiatric enlightenment has begun to debunk
the superstition that to manage a machine you
must become a machine, and that to raise
masters of the machine you must mechanize the
impulses of childhood.
Erikson, 1950