‘Het gevaar van sociale media wordt overdreven’

Our First World reliance on devices means kids aren't experiencing the day-to-day challenge of merely being conscious

A new study looks at how teachers and students use technology inside and outside the classroom. It turns out that members of today's younger Net Generation aren't more tech savvy than their teachers just because they were born into a world full of computers. In fact, if it weren't for the coaxing and support of their educators, many students would never use their electronic devices for more than playing games or listening to music, say experts.

Social media has changed the way teenagers learn, communicate, and participate in civic life. New technology and new ways of connecting with peer and learning networks has also created new concerns about identity, privacy, safety, and bullying. MacArthur Foundation and several Chicago partners brought together Microsoft Researcher danah boyd and Hive Chicago Learning Network Director Sam Dyson for a discussion on how social media is affecting teens’ lives.

• Children who have positive offline relationships with their parents are more likely to navigate the web in a sensible way
• Supportive and enabling parenting has a more positive impact than restricting or monitoring internet use
• Teenagers left to self-regulate their internet and social media use are more likely to teach themselves new skills online and maintain positive online relationships

Schluss mit Ping, Beep und Herzchen. Ein US-Professor hat Laptops und Smartphones im Seminarraum verboten. Er will die Studenten vor dem Multitasking retten.

Het rondsturen van seksfilmpjes en naaktfoto’s van leerlingen op middelbare scholen, zoals vorige week in Brabant gebeurde, is zeker geen incident. Dat blijkt uit onderzoek van EenVandaag onder 1500 jongeren van 12 t/m 24 jaar, onder wie...

Een op de 3 jongeren heeft al voor hun achttiende verjaardag via internet of hun smartphone gokspelletjes gespeeld. De Kansspelcommissie wil dat Facebook, Google en Apple niet langer gok-apps aanbieden zonder de leeftijd van de speler te controleren.

Hoe voorkom je online verspreiding van ongewenste beelden van leerlingen en personeel? De VO-raad en Kennisnet lanceren een leidraad die scholen kunnen gebruiken om verspreiding van ongewenste beelden te voorkomen en aan te pakken.

• Overall, nearly a third (31%) of the brand names - of both healthy and unhealthy products - were given by the children after exposure to a brand logo, over half (53%) also named the right product type, and nearly two-thirds (63%) matched the right product images to the brands. 
• Children’s brand knowledge increased with age. Especially between 3 and 4 years of age children were more able to give the right brand name and product type, and match the brand logo with the correct product type. 
• Children’s brand knowledge of advertised unhealthy foods and drinks was much greater than their knowledge of healthy foods. For example, 68% of the children named the correct product name after being exposed to a brand logo of an unhealthy product, whereas 35% of the children named the correct product name after exposure to a brand logo of a healthy product (see Figure 1). 
• A possible explanation for this finding is that advertising for unhealthy products is more engaging (e.g., animations, promotional characters) than it is for healthy products, and therefore children are more likely to recall those unhealthy brands. 
• When comparing the role of the various factors (age, TV viewing, education of the mother, child and parents' eating habits), only age and parental eating habits related to children's unhealthy brand knowledge. 
• Critical note: This study does not allow for any conclusions about cause (e.g., age, parental eating habits) and effect (unhealthy brand knowledge). The results only show that children's age, and the eating habits of parents is associated with higher brand knowledge of unhealthy foods and drinks, and does not allow conclusions about what causes what.

Een overzicht van tips, lesmateriaal en de beste websites om digitaal pesten (cyberpesten) te voorkomen of te verhelpen.

Mediawijs.be, het kenniscentrum mediawijsheid, ontwikkelde een poster met 10 tips om je filter bubble te doorprikken en op die manier anoniemer te surfen. Anoniem surfen, op het neutrale, ongefilterde, niet-gepersonaliseerde internet, hoe pak je dat aan?

A non-profit is offering a $15 million dollar prize to the private technology company that can develop a free, open-source scaleable software that children around the world can use to teach themselves reading and math.

Fueled by an incredible demand in the workforce for proficient programmers and the need to teach critical thinking skills, the coding movement in schools has exploded. Furthermore, we all communicate through technology, so we should at least know the basic premise of coding because the gadget sitting in our pocket, or on our desk, should not be a mysterious black box to us or our students

Readers abandoning print newspapers in favor of online news may want to consider the effect it’s having. A study conducted by a researcher at the University of Houston finds those who read printed news publications read more news and also remember more news than those who read news online.

Games zijn al niet lang meer weg te denken uit het leven van kinderen en jongeren. De jongste jaren zijn de platformen waarmee ze kunnen gamen sterk uitgebreid. Naast gameconsole en pc, kan het steeds meer via de smartphone of tablet. Games bieden voor jongeren een virtuele wereld, waarin ze samen met anderen kunnen leren, communiceren en experimenteren. Net zoals in de offlinewereld, bestaat de kans dat kinderen en jongeren tijdens hun ontdekkingstocht in aanraking komen met enkele uitdagingen zoals geweld of pesterijen.