1. Parent-Teachers Association Workshop Marian Academy 13 March 2010, Guyana RIANE DE HAAS-BLEDOEG

2. MAIN OBJECTIVE OF THE WORKSHOP Find ways for parents, teachers and teens to work together towards safe, healthy and useful on-line activities

3. WHAT WILL WE LOOK AT?  Cyberspace and its terminology  Overview of the use of the Internet  Benefits and on-line risks  Responsible use of the Internet  Healthy cyberspace life  On-line safety tips

4. WHAT WILL WE LEARN IN THIS WORKSHOP?   Teachers/parents and students acquire basic knowledge on cyberspace life, benefits of the Internet and on-line risks  Parents and teachers develop an approach to be actively involved in on-line life of teens/students

5. WHAT MORE WILL WE LEARN IN THIS WORKSHOP?  Teens/students are provided with information and tools how to get the most benefits from the Internet and at the same time be guarded against on-line threats

6.  Review the information  Ask questions  Share knowledge and experiences  Discuss areas for improvement  Make recommendations WHAT WILL WE DO?

7. YOUR FACILITATORS HALIMA KASSIM Gender & Child Protection DERRICK AGDOMAR Integrated Information Systems JOHN CAMPBELL Sports RIANE DE HAAS-BLEDOEG Culture

8. PARTICIPANTS IN THE WORKSHOP PARENTS TEACHERS/ EDUCATORS STUDENTS/ TEENS

9. STUDENTS THEN STUDENTS NOW

10. Our students have changed radically from previous generations

11. CHILDREN & TEENS Marc Prensky:  Digital natives  Digital immigrants A GENERATION DIFFERENT LANGUAGE DIFFERENT THINKING/ DIFFERENT PROCESSING OF INFORMATION

12. DIGITAL NATIVES – DIGITAL IMMIGRANTS Internationally acclaimed speaker, writer and consultant in the area of education and learning

13. THE GENERATION OF DIGITAL NATIVES

20. DIGITAL IMMIGRANTS Speak language with an ‘accent’ (from pre-digital age) I will send you my comments as soon as I have printed out the document to edit it. Why not edit it on the computer?

21. Can you come over to my desk to see the new website I found? Why not e-mail the URL?

22. Hi, I’m just calling to see if you got my e- mail. OK, we just wanted to double check?

23. DOES THIS LOOK FAMILIAR TO YOU?

24. HOW DIGITAL IMMIGRANTS SEE DIGITAL NATIVES

25. DIGITAL IMMIGRANTS ABOUT DIGITAL NATIVES

26. HOW DIGITAL NATIVES PERCEIVE DIGITAL IMMIGRANTS You can go to the library and look up the word “ergonomics” in the dictionary Let’s google it, Miss! THE GAP IN COMMUNICATION

27. How do you ‘dial’ a phone? “…and little Kevin picked up the phone and dialed the number of grandpa…”

28. Now that you all have drawn your computer on paper, I will now teach you how to turn on the computer. Sir, when will we do PowerPoint presentations?

29. DIGITAL NATIVES - SKILLS  FAST ACQUISITION OF INFORMATION Photo of teen doing home work on the compute with ipod and texting on phone  MULTI TASKING

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31.  GRAPHICS BEFORE TEXT DIGITAL NATIVES - SKILLS  GAMES BEFORE SERIOUS WORK  FUNCTION BEST WHEN NETWORKING

32.  PREFERENCE FOR RANDOM ACCESS (E.G. HYPERTEXT)  BETTER PERFORMANCE WITH INSTANT GRATIFICATION AND FREQUENT REWARDS DIGITAL NATIVES - SKILLS The Internet is a global system of interrelated computer networks that use the standard Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP) to serve billions of users worldwide. It is a network of networks that consists of millions of private, public, academic, business, and government networks of local to global scope that are linked by a broad array of electronic and optical networking technologies. The Internet carries carries a vast array of information resources and services, most notably the inter- linked hypertext documents of the World Wide Web (WWW) and the infrastructure to support electronic mail. computer networks Internet Protocol Suite information hypertext World Wide Web electronic mail.computer networks Internet Protocol Suite information hypertext World Wide Web electronic mail.

33. DIGITAL NATIVES – LANGUAGE INTERNET LINGO LOL P911/ POS/MOS/PIR PAL/PAW TTYL/ CUL/CYL THNX/ TNX/THX BRB/B4N Muah : )  : (

34. BUILDING UNDERSTANDING AND RESPECT  Get involved  Develop trust  Learn the lingo  Be flexible and creative  Apply courtesy and respect  Be on alert

35. Towards a safe, healthy and useful cyberspace life

36. THANK YOU