Film 315s presentation

Summer Fun

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Social Media and mobile devices have always been prohibited at summer camps

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Do you think it is time we thought it over?

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IT HAS QUICKLY BECOME

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WHAT REPRESENTS

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But are there some places it doesn’t belong?

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Summer Camps have always been a place

for children to play learn and

grow…

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Where kids can meet friends

and create new bonds

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Each year more than 11 million

chi ldren and adults att end camp in the U.S.

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The number of day camps in the U.S.

has grown

90% in the past

20 years.

(http://www.acacamps.org/media-center/camp-trends/fact)

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It is a place to socialize the

‘old fashion’ way

human to human contact. BUT…

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IS HUMAN TO HUMAN NOT ENOUGH?

MUST WE HAVE THAT DIGITAL CONNECTION AS WELL?

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What would a summer camp be like with

social media?

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What if the camp set up an inter camp web based server for campers to share

with only the kids at the camp?

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Or would it be easier for the campers

seeing as this is how they grew up?

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The Goal is to let kids be kids

BUT what if an extension of ‘being kids’ comes with Digital Devices andSocial Media?

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Instead of fighting the growing technology,

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SHOULD WE

ACCEPT IT…

AND MOVE ON?

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Credits

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