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WEEK of February 5, 2007 |
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“Technology, Online Behavior, and Your Children: What You Need to Know” on Monday, February 12 The BFS PAT Lecture Series hosts a timely and informative lecture by Doug Fodeman and Marge Monroe on Monday, Feb. 12 at 7 pm in the BFS Meeting House. The topic is “Technology, Online Behavior, and Your Children: What You Need to Know.” Admission is free and open to the public. All BFS families are encouraged to attend. The focus of the presentation is to help parents understand what the risks and issues are for children/teens using the Internet and how they can better protect their children and understand the challenges they may face online. Parents will learn up-to-date information on all aspects of Internet technology, why children are attracted to the Internet, and what this means for their emotional and social well-being. Doug Fodeman has worked with elementary, middle and high schools throughout the country for the past eight years to help teachers, administrators, parents and children understand and cope with the many issues affecting children online as well as understand and implement computer technology in and out of the classroom. He has been Director of Technology and Communication at the Brookwood School, a prek-gr. 8 school in eastern Massachusetts for ten years and taught high school science for more than 18 years at the Pingree School. Marge Monroe is a Clinical Social Worker with 17 years of counseling and teaching experience in independent schools as well as at Wittenberg University in Ohio. She has spoken publicly on many issues such as the use of the Internet, sexual harassment, and crisis management and has designed curricula on substance abuse, sexuality, eating disorders and decision making. Mr. Fodeman and Ms. Monroe will speak with families about the realities of online bullying and how best to respond to it, protecting a child’s privacy, the appropriate age for children to have email and IM (instant messaging), music file sharing communities, online diaries and blogs, maintaining boundaries online, strategies for talking with children, and how to stay educated about online behavior and where to find resources. Last year, Fodeman and Monroe conducted a study of 3,000 fourth through eighth graders in independent schools across the country by administrating a survey about students’ online behavior. They found that more than 50 percent of fourth graders and 72 percent of fifth graders report having an e-mail or IM account; nearly one in ten fourth graders and one in five sixth graders visited a chat room within a month of filling out the survey, and 45 percent of eighth graders reported using online social communities such as MySpace, Xanga or Friendster. In preparation for the presentation at Brooklyn Friends School, a survey of online behavior by BFS students in grades 4-9 is being undertaken, and results will be shared at the Feb. 12 event. |
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