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Digital & Media Literacy for Parents
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Resources to help parents understand how to equip their children to thrive and survive in a digital media world.
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New media technologies are changing rapidly. The opportunities and challenges for parents and their children can be both exciting and intimidating. This slideshow from Common Sense Media gives a good overview of the changing media landscape and provides a framework for understanding its impact on your kids.
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Do you know what teens are doing on social media and what this means for your marketing? Here is the 2015 US teen social media use with charts to guide you.
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Though coming from a business perspective, this is an excellent breakdown of the 2015 Pew Research Center’s Teens, Social Media & Technology Report from Heidi Cohen. Armed with this info, it's a great opportunity to have some discussion about your teen's usage that can help teach and train them to manage their social media life in a way that helps more than hinders. They may be digital natives, but as a parent, you have more life experience. The most effective way to engage your kids with social media is to engage with them face to face.
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“If we are not teaching the kids to use the web as a vehicle for enhancing learning and teaching them to be the filter, that’s a dereliction of duty.”
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Self-filtering beats techno-filtering any day. Good rationale and great list of data points to identify are found in this article KQED Mindshift.
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Do you know what social networks your kids are using? Here's a guide on many top social media networks.
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This fantastic resource gives overviews, links, insights, and advice from High Tech Dad Michael Sheehan. Highly recommended bookmarking for reference.
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Why America's schools need to train a generation of hackers.
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Learning a programming language today is like learning a foreign language many moons ago. As this articles states, learning to code has the power to impact huge change in the world.
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Over the years, as I've moved in and out of classrooms sharing information about technology learning tools and digital citizenship, I've overheard students ask pointed, but reasoned questions about digital parenting.
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From the mouth of babes...
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A new study finds there is a significant disconnect between what kids do online and what their parents think they do. Is this just a new flavor of an old problem? Or is something else going on?
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46% of kids in this recent study who have admitted to engaging in "risky" online behavior say they would not take those risks if they knew their parents were monitoring them. 
Francesca Beltrami's curator insight,
June 27, 2013 1:23 PM
Il gap digitale tra genitori e figli. La necessità di un'educazione alla 
Pirjo Sallmen's curator insight,
August 28, 2013 5:49 AM
Onko lasten ja vanhempien välillä digitaalinen kuilu? Mitä digitaalisella kuilulla oikeastaan tarkoitetaan?
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Kids have more idle time on the computer during summer vacation. Check out these 7 Tips to make sure your kids are behaving safely and appropriately online!
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Here are some good, basic internet safety tips to discuss with your child. Also, this blog is run by a company that has some excellent monitoring software that can help you have conversations with your children about responsible computer use. Here's a link to a video interview I did at a recent homeschool conference where the program is explained: http://youtu.be/1yVY3_XeFMc
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This generation of parents grew up with TVs, video game consoles, and computers, so digital media is one of many tools they use in their parenting repertoire.
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The article highlights results from a study by the Center on Media and Human Development at Northwestern University’s School of Communication. It includes a link to a PDF of the report, and among some interesting findings is that parents do not see media as particularly “educational” for their children, but they also do not see most media as being particularly harmful to their children either. In addition, most parents do not seem to be seeking out much information about the media their children use, which makes you, dear reader, in the minority. :-)
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Guest post by Dave Taylor It's something that I hear from teens all the time, the refrain that "it's cool, I can just delete it if it's a problem" when we're talking about online safety, privacy an...
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You do know that photo, video, status update, story or tweet you're thinking of posting is there to stay, right? Tech expert, blogger and dad Dave Taylor sounds off in this reminder that the internet never forgets.
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Youth are sharing more personal information on their profiles than in the past. They choose private settings for Facebook, but share with large networks of friends.
Key findings include:
Teens are sharing more information about themselves on their social media profiles than they did when we last surveyed in 2006:
- 91% post a photo of themselves, up from 79% in 2006.
- 71% post their school name, up from 49%.
- 71% post the city or town where they live, up from 61%.
- 53% post their email address, up from 29%.
- 20% post their cell phone number, up from 2%.
Via Gust MEES
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Youth are sharing more personal information on their profiles than in the past. They choose private settings for Facebook, but share with large networks of friends. 
Allan Shaw's curator insight,
May 22, 2013 4:43 AM
US data but Pew Research is reputable. Privacy is a learned habit and we cannot assume younger people see the need. Maybe they will be proven correct and privacy is not required to the same degree as I feel it is and should be? Thanks Gust Mees. 
Deanya Lattimore Schempp's curator insight,
May 22, 2013 7:58 AM
The Pew Reports are always fascinating. 
Ivon Prefontaine, PhD's curator insight,
May 22, 2013 6:29 PM
Educators should be aware of this. Will there be issues or concerns down the road?
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One Ouch is Too Many
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Research by the Family Onlne Safety Institute shows children, primarily teens, need their parents to help them navigate the internet. Adult content, privacy and cyberbullying are important concerns and the study shows that a gap exists between parents’ and teens’ perceptions of parents’ monitoring and how well informed parents are. Communicating with your child is key, and this article by Mary Kay Hoal of Yoursphere gives a good starting point.
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An exciting initiative for students and teachers to develop digital literacy skills on YouTube and across the wider web in a few short lessons. To take part,...
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This video serves as an introduction to an exciting initiative for students and teachers, which can also be used by parents, to develop digital literacy skills on YouTube and across the wider web in a few short lessons. The interactive curriculum is aimed to support teachers of secondary students (approximately ages 13-17). The curriculum helps educate students on topics like: YouTube’s policies, How to report content on YouTube, How to protect their privacy online, How to be responsible YouTube community members, How to be responsible digital citizens. The goal is to help students and educators gain useful skills and a holistic understanding about responsible digital citizenship, not only on YouTube, but in all online activity. To take part, go to http://www.google.com/edu/ytcurric |
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The idea of Snapchat is simple, delightfully so. Take an image or a video and send it to a friend. Ten seconds after the receiver opens the file, it self-destructs—or does it? The truth is "the Internet never forgets," says INFOdocket's Gary Price. Via Gareth Morgan
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I'm not sure I agree that "sharing horror stories" is the best way to educate young people about the perils and pitfalls of sharing things online, but this article makes several important points that parents can use to help educated their kids to keep them safe online.
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Learn more about Parent Social Media Training with this video. This is a 34 minute sample of the content that we have used to train thousands of Tweens & Teens nationwide on social media safety. In this video Josh Ochs outlines how kids can use social media as a portfolio instead of a pasttime. Also …
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Here's a fantastic resource for parents to learn more about specific social media sites and apps that teens are using. From Josh Ochs at Safe, Smart & Social.
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While growing up online has its benefits, it also poses new risks. Here are six tips from parenting experts to help you keep your kids safe on social media.
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Good reminders for parents who are in the know, and good advice overall for parents who need a little help.
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Apple’s leader limited his children’s screen time, and a surprising number of other technology executives do too.
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Apparently, Steve Jobs was not only a tech genius, he was also digitally literate.
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Disclaimer: If you are in blissful denial that your tech use is out of control at any level, then this article will make you uncomfortable. It may even make you mad. You may want to skip this post and go play Candy Crush instead. Professionals say the first step to dealing with, and overcoming any …
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A good look in the mirror to take stock of online habits that should NOT be an example to our kids.
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The current trend of education technology is nothing to sneeze at. There are iPads and Android devices popping up in classrooms around the world.
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This article makes a good point about the use of visuals and interactivity through the use of technology. In addition, while it's possible to enhance learning through digital tools, the need is to not just learn how how to use them, but how to filter unnecessary content and communicate key concepts. There's an interesting infographic that illustrates how to do just that in regard to this topic.
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Digital technology is transforming the way our kids play, think, interact and learn. Check out our digital literacy articles, videos, and tipsheets.
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A launching point from TVO Parents based on a collection of their articles, videos, and tipsheets on digital literacy, including using digital technology to teach kids math, social media in the classroom and the power of learning code for girls.
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Homeschool dad Dave Webb inspires his kids to dream big, be intentional, and use media and tech as powerful teachers.
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Here's a guest blog post I did for Father's day for the great folks at Common Sense Media.
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Whether or not your child grows up to be the next Zuckerberg, programming is a highly useful skill for him or her to learn. It teaches vital problem-solving, creativity, and communication skills. Plus, it can be downright fun for you both.
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My 16 year old started playing around with standard educational computer games when he was two. I recently got him hooked up with an online course on web developement: https://www.udemy.com/how-to-become-a-web-developer-from-scratch/. My guess is, that if he would've had access to some of the apps in this article, much of what he's learning now would be second nature to him. I'm really liking the idea of introducing coding to my younger kids just for the design and problem solving skills they'll learn, and there are some great resources here to help make that happen.
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It seems that for every one of the roughly 300 million photos uploaded to Facebook each day, users can find corresponding words of advice on how to manage their photos on the social network. (Digital literacy infographic for all!
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Photos are a great way to share on Facebook. But there are some guidelines you should consider when doing so. This infographic provides some tongue-in-cheek insight on how to go about it intentionally and intelligently. :-)
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Understanding Digital Parenting: The Essential Guide to Raising Connected Kids will help every parent who has ever struggled to bridge the information gap between what they can see their child doing at home and what they are doing online.
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Nice, concise 32 page guide from uKnow.com and Internet Safety Expert Tim Woda. The ebook covers: The Importance of Educating Children about How to Use the Internet.Stages of the Digital Child and How to Parent Effectively at Each Stage.The Importance of Building Trust with Your Child.Technology Solutions for Digital ParentingSupply an email address, download the guide, get peace of mind.
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The best apps for your kid’s first iPhone, iPad, Android phone, Android tablet, or Kindle Fire.
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Not sure they're "essential" but, great learning and fun (or is that fun learning?) for mobile devices.
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Do children under 18 automatically know how to use technology properly without guidance from adults? This article looks at one experiment that examined that assumption. |
