What Gen Alpha can teach us about technology | Emma & Charlotte Robertson | TEDxKingstonUponThames
Summary
TLDRThe video script addresses the rapid technological advancements that are reshaping human life and poses the question of how society can thrive amidst these changes. The speakers, Charlotte and Emma, founders of Digital Awareness UK, share their journey from being social media advisors to focusing on digital literacy. They highlight the importance of digital education, especially for children who are the most engaged with technology. The sisters discuss the double-edged sword of technology, noting both the negative impacts such as cyberbullying and the positive potential, including the use of generative AI tools in creative and educational ways. They emphasize the need for curiosity, adaptability, and resilience in the face of technological change and suggest that adults have a role to play by sharing their life experience and emotional intelligence with the younger generation. The summary calls for embracing our innate abilities to navigate the digital landscape effectively.
Takeaways
- 🌐 Rapid Technological Advancement: The human race is experiencing unprecedented technological change with AI, pervasive intelligence, and advanced robotics transforming our lives.
- 🚀 Future of Jobs: 85% of careers for today's secondary school children haven't been created yet, indicating the need to adapt to the speed of technological change.
- 🌱 Digital Awareness: The founders of Digital Awareness UK left corporate roles to promote digital literacy and positive technology use, focusing on children's safety and well-being.
- 📱 Impact on Children: Children are the most affected by technology, with tablets, smartphones, and social media impacting their development and behavior.
- 🔍 Double-Edged Sword: Technology provides both opportunities and challenges, such as online scams, toxic influences, and social media comparison culture.
- 🧠 Generative AI and Creativity: In 2023, generative AI tools became mainstream, with young people being the biggest users and drivers of their adoption, leading to both positive and negative outcomes.
- 📉 Digital Literacy Trends: Digital literacy peaks at ages 14 to 15 and then declines, highlighting the importance of early education on technology use.
- 🤔 Fostering Curiosity: Children's natural curiosity fuels creativity and problem-solving, a trait that adults can learn from to better understand and adapt to technology.
- 🦾 Adaptability: Children's ability to adapt to new digital environments and privacy challenges is a skill that adults should emulate for future career success.
- 💪 Building Resilience: Teenagers manage digital challenges and failures at scale, showing resilience that adults can learn from to navigate technology-related setbacks.
- 👵 Leveraging Adult Skills: Adults bring valuable lived experience, wisdom, emotional intelligence, and context to the table, which can be shared with younger generations for mutual benefit.
Q & A
What is the main challenge the human race is facing due to rapid technological change?
-The main challenge is to thrive in response to the rapid pace of technological change, which is advancing quicker in the next five years than it has in the last 100 years.
What percentage of careers for secondary school-aged children have not yet been created, according to the Dell Technologies report?
-85% of the careers for secondary school-aged children have not yet been created.
What was the turning point for Charlotte and Emma that led them to found Digital Awareness UK?
-The turning point was when they gave a careers talk to a group of 11 and 12-year-olds and realized the negative impact their work in social media might have on young people.
What are some of the physiological responses observed in children due to excessive screen time?
-Some physiological responses include tech neck, jelly legs, and digital eye strain.
How did generative AI tools impact young people's creativity in 2023?
-Generative AI tools became mainstream, and young people's imagination and creativity ran wild, with them being the biggest users and drivers behind its adoption.
What was the percentage of schools that reported harmful incidents of deep fake technology being used within them?
-78% of schools reported harmful incidents of deep fake technology being used.
What positive use of generative AI was mentioned in the script?
-Students were simulating scientific experiments, solving math problems in seconds, and one student used AI to compose music for their entire end of school production.
What are the three key skills that children have demonstrated in managing technology that adults can learn from?
-The three key skills are curiosity, adaptability, and resilience.
What is the importance of being curious about technology?
-Curiosity fuels creativity and helps adults understand technology more deeply, which can change every aspect of their lives.
How can adults adapt to technological changes?
-Adults can adapt by embracing a mindset open to change and new ideas, focusing on skills that support future career goals, and not getting caught up in nostalgia for past technologies.
What is the role of resilience in thriving in the digital landscape?
-Resilience is key to managing failure and digital challenges, allowing individuals to learn from mistakes and do better in the future.
What unique qualities do adults possess that can be beneficial when shared with young people?
-Adults possess lived experience, wisdom, emotional intelligence, and the ability to understand context, which are powerful skills to share with young people.
Outlines
🌐 The Digital Shift: Thriving in a Technologically Rapid World
The first paragraph introduces the audience to the unprecedented pace of technological change, particularly in fields like AI, pervasive intelligence, extended reality, and advanced robotics. It emphasizes the need to adapt to these changes and poses the question of how we can thrive amidst this rapid evolution. The speakers, Charlotte and Emma, share their background in digital awareness and their journey from being social media advisors to founding Digital Awareness UK, which focuses on promoting positive technology use for safety and well-being. They discuss their pivotal moment of realization regarding the impact of social media on children's lives, which led them to dedicate their work to digital literacy in schools. The paragraph concludes with a reflection on the profound social experiment that is children's interaction with rapidly advancing technologies and the emotional complexity of this phenomenon.
📈 Navigating the Digital Playground: Lessons from the Next Generation
The second paragraph delves into the experiences and observations of the speakers over the past decade. They discuss the dual nature of technology as both a source of connection and entertainment, as well as a platform for scams, toxic influences, and social comparison. The year 2023 is highlighted as a turning point with the mainstream adoption of generative AI tools, leading to both positive and negative outcomes. The speakers recount instances of misuse, such as the creation of deepfake content and voice cloning for malicious purposes, as well as beneficial applications like composing music and solving complex problems. They stress the importance of curiosity, a key trait that drives creativity and innovation in young people, and encourage adults to foster this quality to better understand and adapt to technological advancements.
🌟 Adapting to Change: Embracing a Digital Mindset
The third paragraph focuses on the adaptability of children in the face of new digital environments and the importance of adopting a mindset open to change. The speakers reflect on how children have adapted to privacy challenges by using code names and disappearing messages on social media. They encourage adults to embrace a similar mindset shift, moving away from nostalgia for simpler times and instead focusing on acquiring skills that will support future career goals in the age of AI. The paragraph also touches on the resilience of children in managing failure and digital challenges, contrasting this with the fear of failure often found in adults. The speakers advocate for accepting failure as a part of the learning process and using it as a stepping stone for improvement.
🚀 Harnessing Our Superpowers: The Future of Digital Interaction
The final paragraph serves as a conclusion to the talk, reminding the audience that the current state of technology is the least engaging, immersive, and humanlike it will ever be. The speakers encourage everyone to leverage their inherent superpowers—curiosity, adaptability, and resilience—to thrive in the digital landscape. They also highlight the unique contributions that adults can make, such as life experience, wisdom, and emotional intelligence, and propose a skills swap between generations. The paragraph ends with a call to action to embrace the opportunities of the digital age and a warm thank you to the audience.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Technological Change
💡Digital Literacy
💡Social Media
💡Generative AI
💡Deep Fake Technology
💡Cyberbullying
💡Adaptability
💡Resilience
💡Esports
💡Ethical Hackers
💡Digital Playground
Highlights
The human race is experiencing unprecedented technological change, with AI, pervasive intelligence, extended reality, and advanced robotics transforming our lives.
Industry experts predict that technology will advance more in the next five years than in the last 100.
85% of careers for today's secondary school-aged children haven't been created yet, highlighting the need to keep up with the speed of tech.
Charlotte and Emma, founders of Digital Awareness UK, share their journey from social media advisors to digital literacy advocates.
A pivotal moment for the sisters was a career talk with 11 and 12-year-olds, which led to a realization about the impact of social media on young minds.
Digital literacy spikes at ages 14 to 15 before declining in adulthood, emphasizing the importance of early education.
In 2023, generative AI tools became mainstream, driven largely by young people's creativity and imagination.
Deep fake technology and voice cloning apps have been misused to create harmful content and deceptive scenarios in schools.
Positive applications of AI include simulating scientific experiments, solving math problems, and composing music for school productions.
Children are the experts in the digital playground, and their experiences can inform our understanding of current and future digital trends.
Three key skills children possess that adults can learn from are curiosity, adaptability, and resilience.
Adults can bring lived experience, wisdom, emotional intelligence, and the ability to provide context to the digital landscape.
To thrive in the digital age, it's crucial to cultivate curiosity, adapt to new technologies, and build resilience.
The technology we use today will be the least engaging, immersive, interactive, and humanlike it will ever be.
The importance of reaching for our innate superpowers—curiosity, adaptability, and resilience—to thrive in the digital landscape.
The need for a skills swap between adults and children to leverage the strengths of both generations in the digital age.
The digital landscape is moving at a rapid pace, and to keep up, we must embrace change and learn from the experiences of the younger generation.
Transcripts
the human race is experiencing a
whirlwind of technological change like
we've never seen
before advances in areas like AI
pervasive intelligence extended reality
Advanced Robotics are changing the way
we do Life In fact when preparing for
this talk we challenged ourselves with
what can we tell you that chat gbt
can't to put this in perspective
industry experts predict that technology
is going to advance quicker in the next
five years than it has in the last 100 a
report published by Dell Technologies
shows that for secondary school aged
children 85% of the careers they could
go into haven't been created yet and
we're having to move at the speed of
tech to keep up
this begs one of the most important
questions of our
time how can we thrive in response to
the rapid pace of technological
change hi I'm Charlotte and I'm Emma and
yes we're
sisters just over a decade ago we
founded digital awareness UK to help
people to use technology in a way that's
positive for their safety and their
well-being prior to that we were social
media advisers to Global Brands by day
and Charlotte was also a social media
influencer by
night and we were helping companies to
engage with their audiences using this
relatively new and exciting medium
called social
media one day a school asked us if we'd
like to give a careers talk to a group
of 11 and 12 year- olds about what it's
like working in social media with all
these cool Brands and for us there was
literally life before and life after
this
talk we listened and learned to this
group as they told us about everything
they were trying to navigate from cyber
bullying to grooming to feeling left out
to spending hours scrolling through
social
media and we felt a real sense of Shame
and responsibility as we thought about
how the things that we were doing might
have been influencing their purchasing
decisions shaping their
self-esteem informing those digital
habits and not necessarily in the most
positive way so we left the corporate
world behind us to drive digital
awareness digital literacy in schools
and we haven't looked back
we've traveled around the world with
teams of Esports Pros influencers
ethical hackers people who have positive
text stories to tell and we've spoken to
conducted research amongst and delivered
educational programs to
Millions now today we work from with
everybody from CEOs to politicians to
Grandmas but at the heart of our
business we've always wanted to support
those people who are most alive to
technology and these guys don't go
online they live
online
children so what happens when you give
tablets smartphones social media online
video games rapidly advancing
Technologies to children with little or
no idea of what the consequences could
be well we're going to tell you and it's
the wildest social experiment of our
time an experiment that has been cruel
and wonderful heartbreaking and
heartwarming
empowering all consuming and
unfulfilling and every other emotion you
could imagine experiencing at once you
would have all witnessed this experiment
yourselves looking at fames silent in
restaurants as they stare at devices or
at children laughing together at the
latest Tik Tock
craze we believe that children are the
key not only to understanding the trends
that are unfolding today but what's to
come digital literacy spikes at ages 14
to 15 before gradually dropping off
throughout adulthood and falling again
in older age the things that we're
seeing now happening in this Digital
Playground we'll be trying to wrap our
heads around months down the
line in many ways children are the
experts so what have we
learned well we'll start by talking a
little bit about some of the things
we've learned over the last
decade so we've seen young people become
more entertained and connected and
interacting with each other in ways that
we only could have
imagined while
simultaneously managing online scams and
toxic influences and social media
comparison culture the double edged
sword of Technology revealed
itself we've seen young people become so
enticed by and immersed in their screens
that we could literally see in children
as young as four the physiological
response that their bodies were having
as they managed tech neck jelly legs
digital eye
strain like a lot of us us they were
developing a real intolerance for
boredom and this rumbled on over the
years until we were hit with
2023 and for us that year was a game
changer now what happened in that year
generative AI tools became mainstream
and young people's imagination and
creativity ran
wild of commer found that young people
are the biggest users of generative Ai
and in fact they were the drivers behind
its mainstream adoption so we were
inundated with calls from schools as
they told us that their students were
creating artificial sexually explicit
content of each other using deep fake
technology and that's not all deep fake
was being used for in fact one school
called us to say that a student had
created a an an artificial video of
their head teacher saying that school
was cancelled for the following
week this video went viral and
apparently even some of the teachers
believed
it these weren't one-offs in fact we
conducted some research which found that
78% of schools have had harmful
incidences of deep fake technology being
used within them
we saw young people using voice cloning
apps to replicate each other's voices in
real time and play tricks on each other
something that sadly we're now seeing
telephone scammers do at
scale at the same time schools were
calling us to tell us that so much good
was coming from this
technology they were saying that their
students were simulating scientific
experiments ments and solving math
problems in seconds one teacher told us
that their student had used AI to
compose music for their entire end of
school production she said it was
brilliant it didn't seem to matter if we
were working in schools in refugee camps
on the other side of the world or right
here in London the issues the
opportunities that we were witnessing
were ubiquitous
Universal and
unparalleled now of course children are
going to make mistakes but the teenage
brain aside there are some things that
we've observed watching children in this
Digital Playground that we can learn
from as adults what are the skills they
have that we
need
curiosity children are wonderfully
curious
creatures and this curiosity flourishes
is when it comes to how they use their
technology we see in young children when
they ask a question and we answer it
even with conviction but is still met
with
why curiosity fuels creativity which is
why they're doing all of these
interesting things we we've talked about
with generative AI but how can we as
adults be more
Curious well curiosity is sparked by the
desire to want to understand things more
deeply and if you don't already have the
desire to want to understand this Tech
that you walk around with every single
day let me tell you from firsthand
experience the information the digital
literacy skills we can gain will change
every aspect of your life from how you
eat sleep exercise how productive you
are at work how much time you give your
loved ones
yourselves everything thing how many of
us can honestly say that we've got a
healthy happy relationship with our
technology start small if you need to
listen to the occasional techie podcast
or tedex talk but don't forget to ask
yourself the who the whats the where the
how the second is their ability to
adapt children adapt to new environments
in ways we can only imagine and we've
watched them jump excited ly from one
trending app or device to the next
they're expert
adapters in
2013 the digital footprint was the
phrase of the moment Educators including
us were talking to Children about how
what they share now will affect them
years down the
line but it wasn't long before children
were using code names instead of their
real names on social media profiles
using disappearing messages to protect
their privacy they were adapting to the
emerging privacy challenges in ways we
just
weren't so how can we
adapt it's about a mindset shift
embracing a mindset that is open to
change and new ideas shifting from
worrying about how technology change our
current ways of working to thinking
about what skills we can gain that will
support our future career goals in the
age of
AI let's not get too caught up with rose
tinted good old days or
Technologies when we didn't need a
internet connection to park our
cars it's happening and we need to get
better at adapting and finally
resilience children are managing failure
and digital challenges at
scale our research shows that the
majority of teenagers see or experience
online abuse every single
day the majority are seeing racist
misogynistic or homophobic content
online every single
day and your average teenager receives
over 200 notification on social media a
day unless you're part of a school
parenting WhatsApp group that is a lot
to get your heads
around but for the most part they're
picking themselves up learning from
their mistakes and trying to do better
tomorrow Al whilst you know trying to
embrace the opportunities in front of
them
adults most of us are terrified of
failure terrified we don't bounce back
easily but when it comes to our
technology please accept that failure is
inevitable chances are you will get
scammed you will get caught out
prioritizing your device over your loved
ones you will get caught up in some
contentious debate on social
media say something you wish you
hadn't but when this
happens let's take the
learnings and see how we can do better
moving forwards children have shown us
that in order to
thrive curiosity how we adapt and
building our resilience is
key so we've heard a lot about all the
skills that young people have when it
comes to managing all of this but what
about us what can adults bring to the
table well we have lived
experience we have
wisdom we know how it feels to be
bullied to be left out we understand
context we have emotional intelligence
not artificial
intelligence there's not a piece of
technology out there that would stop me
from calling my sister if I faced a
serious challenge in my life I might go
to technology to verif if the advice she
gave me was
helpful but it wouldn't replace
her these skills are incredibly powerful
not just for ourselves but when shared
with young people so let the skills swap
begin we wanted to leave you with a
thought as we close our
talk the technology that we're using
today in this
moment is the least
engaging the least
immersive the least
interactive educational the least
humanlike it ever will
be so if we want to thrive as this
digital landscape whizzes around us we
have to reach for the superpowers that
we've had within us all
along our ability to be curious to adapt
to be
resilient so welcome to the Digital
Playground thank
[Applause]
you
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