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Computing and Coding

Soul and Chips

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Learning Spaces

The Seven Point Checklist For Successful Learning Spaces

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Technology and learning

5 Apr 2010

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The extent and increase of mobile phonewww.teachingtimes.com n Vol 5.1Research Every Child Journal13use is evident in that 82 per cent of 12- to 15-year-olds were reported to own a mobile or smartphone(20 per cent and 62 per cent respectively) in 2013by Ofcom1 – an increase in smartphone ownershipby 20 per cent from the 2011 report. Furthermore,85 per cent of 12- to 15-year-old users of socialnetworking sites access their main profile daily, oftenvia a mobile or smartphone. Modern devices enableusers to make voice and video calls, and send text,instant and picture messages, in addition to manyother social media applications.Such methods of communication haveprovided opportunities for adolescents in terms ofstarting and maintaining (and ending) romantic“Romantic relationships arethought to play an importantrole in young people’sdevelopment, as they gainrelationship experience andmature into young adults. ”relationships. Adolescents also report technologyto be a key method in which they communicate inrelationships with girlfriends and boyfriends, someof which may be exclusively maintained online – atleast at first.However, while mobile phones may have beenoriginally given to young people by their parents inorder to provide safety or for in case of emergency,the use of such tools may expose adolescents torisks such as cyberbullying, cyber-harassment, andtechnology-assisted dating violence and abuse, inaddition to exposure to potentially harmful content(hate, pro-anorexia, self-harm, drug-taking or suicide,for example2) and grooming. This article highlightshow ECT is used in the context of dating violenceand abuse, by providing a new tool for controllingand obsessive behaviours between adolescentdating couples.Abuse in adolescent romanticrelationshipsRomantic relationships become increasingly relevantto adolescents as they move through secondaryschool, and as such, these relationships often formwith peers in school. Research in the UK shows that83 per cent of 13- to 14-year-olds3 and 88 per centof 13- to 16-year-olds4 have had some experience ofromantic relationships with boyfriends or girlfriends.Romantic relationships are thought to play animportant role in young people’s development,as they gain relationship experience and matureinto young adults. However, once adolescents startengaging in dating relationships, they are thenexposed to a number of risks related to sexualhealth, as well as risks associated with datingviolence and abuse.In 2012, the government amended the existingdefinition of domestic violence to apply to 16- toVol 5.1 n www.teachingtimes.comResearchEvery Child Journal1417-year-olds in recognition of the risk of datingviolence and abuse among older adolescent datingcouples.5 The definition identifies domestic violenceand abuse as including psychological, emotional,physical, sexual and financial violence or abuse,in addition to coercive control and threateningbehaviours. 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