]OCT 23 Apps and Young Users: Warnings and Safeguards Assignment Instructions
Overview
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Instructions
Scenario: You are viewed as an expert in educational technology and have been asked by your principal to plan and conduct a 10-minute presentation for parents on the possible dangers of social media apps targeting children. The principal’s goals are to:
* Inform parents of what is happening in the complicated digital world where children are concerned
* Demonstrate the types of challenges children are facing with actual recent news stories
* Express the importance of parental monitoring
* Equip parents with tools they can use for decision-making and monitoring.
1. For your presentation, identify three or more apps of particular concern for educators and parents. Avoid apps that are already commonly known (e.g., TikTok, Snapchat, etc.) unless you focus on a new danger recently identified in the news for these apps. Do your best to identify apps that are new on the scene. For each app identified:
* Provide a brief descriiption along with an image of the app.
* Reveal two or three possible risks for each when used by school-age students.
* Include at least two news items as evidence of the app’s risks and dangers to children. Limit your browser search to news items published/produced within the last six months.
2. Present information from both the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and your state’s attorney general to support your claims.
* Using the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s What We Investigate link provided with this assignment, browse the podcasts, press releases, and videos for a resource (current within the past 12 months) that addresses your topic. In your presentation, insert a direct link to the FBI resources referenced.
* Using the National Association of Attorneys General link provided with this assignment, search for your state’s attorney general website. Include the name of your state’s attorney general and contact information in your presentation. Share examples of information and news items on your attorney general’s website regarding children and Internet/social media risks. Encourage parents to contact the attorney general to recommend additional safeguards for children. In your presentation, insert a direct link to the attorney general resources referenced.
3. Discuss warnings and safeguards that should be put in place for child safety.
* Use personal experience and current news items (published/produced within the last six months) to support the warnings and safeguards you propose.
* Also, use current (12 months or newer) professional literature such as journal articles and research to support your claims. To do this, limit your search in the Jerry Falwell Library to dissertations, theses, and journal articles.
4. Conclude your presentation with endorsements of the best parental monitoring tool and content blocking tool.
* It is suggested you gain actual experience with these two tools by requesting a free trial of the tools you select.
* In your presentation, briefly defend your recommendations based on features, cost, etc.
Build the slide show portion of your 10-minute presentation using PowerPoint or Google Slides. Your presentation must include audio narrations recorded within the presentation software’s audio record feature. The final presentation should be professionally formatted with quality slide design based on best practices. It should include a title slide, references slide(s), and a credits slide with any needed copyright attributions for images, etc. Use current 7TH ED APA formatting.
Review Synthesis
he candidate provides a brief descriiption for 3 or more apps noted as potentially dangerous for children and teens, revealing 2 or 3 possible risks identified in and supported by recent news articles or media sources. These apps or their uses do not fall into the common knowledge category but represent NEW threats.
Resource Identification and Relevance
The candidate is knowledgeable on where to locate relevant information on the FBI.gov and Attorney General .gov site for their state and clearly disseminates this information to the audience. At least one source from the FBI.gov site and at least one source from the Attorney General. .gov site for the candidate’s own state are included. These are within the most current full year and are highly relevant.
Significance
The significance of the concerns is well-presented and discussed in the audio portion of the presentation
Warnings, Safeguards, and Relevance
The candidate uses knowledge gleaned from experience as well as scholarly articles to provide warnings and safeguard for parents of school aged children and these are thoroughly discussed. Highly relevant data from research is included.
Monitoring and Blocking
The candidate identifies and endorses at least one monitoring tool and one content blocking tool for parental use. The candidate carefully defends the endorsement by providing features, cost, and evidence from their own experience with the tool.
References
The candidate identifies timely and relevant journal and research studies. Most references were published within the current 1-year timeframe. All news items were published within the last 6 months.
Professionalism
The candidate demonstrates professionalism in slide design. All required sections are included with adequate detail and accurate content for descriiption, warnings, safeguards, and links. There are no typos. Hyperlinks to news items and resources all work. The presentation includes a title slide, references slide(s), and a credits slide with all needed copyright attributions for images, etc.
