Philippe Wampfler, they have three children. As you can imagine dealing with new media in the home of an expert?
Not unlike many other families, too. Our kids, seven, nine and ten years old, know what you can do with the phone. You like to play on the Computer. But you do not have your own equipment, but can use our according to certain rules.
How do these rules look?
There are specifications such as, for example, a unit of half an hour. More is not good for children. But the are no rigid rules, because it comes down to it, what do you do on the screen. Sometimes it takes more than half an hour, so that you can deal with something more intense.
Are there any age recommendations for the use of media?
Simple: Before the beginning of school is always an adult should sit next to it when children use media, and up to the fifth grade, they should not get their own devices, whether mobile phone, game console or TV. Up to the upper level kids with the social media like Instagram or Snapchat are overwhelmed.
Why?
Because they are not cognitively still be able to capture, what you see is what is open to the public, who can you trust.
“It only works if school and parents Supplement”: the media educator Philippe Wampfler. Photo: philippe-wampfler.ch
From the upper stage, young people are so, so far, that you can independently use the media?
From then on, a child should be ready to go unaccompanied into the network and surf the web. Until then, children must have age-appropriate experiences in dealing with the media and know where you need to be careful. I speak, therefore, of experimental media literacy.
What does that mean?
An example would be that the children make on a trip, a photo, send it to grandparents, to write where it was taken, and so learn how to do this. With time, such media actions are always more complex, for example, a Search for the school or if you buy at an Online auction a little and remember that this can also go wrong.
this media literacy is the task of the parents or the school?
It only works if school and parents complement each other. Because the children also make many personal experiences with the media, which have to do directly with the school nothing. There, the parents need to have a positive effect on the children.
“The networking has also positive effects, which are not immediately recognizable.”
If the parents should support their children in their experiences, they must themselves be competent in dealing with the media.
it is especially Important that you are open to the communication needs of their children. That you will not depreciate about Social Media, but interested in, and show, what do the children like it. Then the children trust the parents, when it comes to cyber bullying or other harassment. You don’t make, however, if you need to have the fear that the parents would scold and say: “damn you!”
What is your experience? The handling of media works in families?
Many families have rules and agreements quite well. In addition, is positive, that studies on the media use among young people, that friendships are still the most important. For example, a survey of the city of Zurich 2018 has shown that young people who use social media, spend most of their time outdoors and active in sports are.
What are the good sides of Social Media?
The networking has also positive effects, which are not immediately recognizable. For example, in the case of eating disorders. The simple explanation is that Social Media lead by the example of the thin Influencer to eating disorders. At the same time, people with eating disorders will find there, but also help with suffering comrades, who have made it to the exit, and whose advice you trust. It is similar to play in the computer. You can make lonely, but also stimulate the imagination and the social togetherness promote. It is all too easy, if you hit everything on a Make.
“There are some young people, a kind of Burn-out.”
For the young Generation belong to the new media of everyday life. Do you, in General, reasonable?
here is an example: On a trip to Vienna have decided to have a few of my students: “We are on the road together and not look at the phone.” You have then played in the train through Austria for eight hours, maps, and talk to each other. Some young people feel that the media’s constant presence also means Stress and is not good for one.
What’s stressing you?
Teens have Stress is because you need to find your identity, no stable relationships, and yet don’t know whom you can trust. This development process is now accompanied in addition by the media. It means right to work, to respond to all contact requests. There is, therefore, in the case of some young people, a kind of Burn-out, especially if you want to meet the high requirements and expectations.
What parents can do to combat this Stress?
rituals and clear rules in the family provide relief to children and young people. For example, a restriction on the times of use during the holidays or a waiver when you eat. This gives the children the opportunity to deal with something else, to be a child again and have no role to play. It is helpful if you don’t have to refrain yourself, but the waiver is prescribed. However, parents should not prohibit the phone. The increases more of the Stress, because the children are afraid to lose the contact to the colleagues.
“I don’t think this Generation will have problems because of the digital media.”
Is there not a danger that the new media is addictive?
You have to be careful: An intensive media usage is no Addiction. A child disappears in the evening for three hours, but happy, like school and friends, has no one to Worry about. The problem is, when a child takes his needs to back pulls, no other Hobbies, and living in the school not to come.
What is your impression of the children and young people today?
you are no different than in the past. You want to be loved, as competent, experienced and a good future. I’m not Worried that this Generation will have problems because of the digital media. I’m more Worried about the children that are left from your environment in the engraving and in the school no connection. The distraction machines amplify the problem.
Created: 18.11.2019, 20:07 PM
