The digital domain is changing how students perceive, interact with, and respond to the world.
Response to ongoing conversations around technology, safe student use and the impact on relationships and sense of community.
This is a need that is consistent across the province and country.
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By Definition...
Sextingrefers to the practice of “youth writing sexually explicit messages, taking sexually explicit photos of themselves or others in their peer group, and transmitting those photos and/or messages to their peers.”
Occurs through: cell phones, computers, web cameras, digital cameras, and video game systems.
(Nat’l Ctr. for Missing & Exploited Children)
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What Does The Research Say?
Approximately 25% of teenagers are sexting
More than 50% have been asked to send a nude photo of themselves (ages 14-19)
31% requested someone to have a nude photo sent to them
15% have received such images from someone they know (ages 12-17)
(Stats from the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy, 2008)
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What Does The Research Say?
"They live in the here and now. They're thinking about what they're doing in the moment and sharing that and no, I don't think enough of them are sitting back contemplating, 'If I share this……. " (2016), Arnason, associate executive director of the Canadian Centre for Child Protection in Winnipeg.
(Stats from CBC National http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/teens-sexting-education-1.3789913)