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Is It Digital Citizenship or Just Plain Citizenship?
As the lives of my students, online and off, grow more complex by the day, I spend a good deal of time helping them learn more about digital citizenship. Today the digitally connected, always-on world...
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Digital Childhood and Technology: Another Good NPR Series
Parents and educators can learn a lot about children’s digital lives — and the importance of helping young people develop strong digital citizenship skills — by listening to a series of broadcasts from...
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Three Basic — and Best — Digital Parenting Guidelines
Whenever I have conversations about the challenges of digital parenting, people invariably ask how I might condense all of the 21st Century parenting guidance into just a few helpful suggestions. Can...
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So I Just Won’t Use the Cloud! Really?
Over the past several days I’ve heard more people say that they will stop using the cloud — a reaction to the stolen pictures, possibly taken from iCloud, of movie stars and celebrities (September...
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Getting to Know Pinterest: A Parent’s Guide
Pinterest digitizes image collecting, the non-digital activity that lots of us have been doing for years. In a sense Pinterest offers a 21st Century way to bookmark and collect images instead of...
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Has Your Child Grown Up With Google? Check Out This Article
Ever so often adults are reminded that the world where we grew up is dramatically different from the world where our 21st Century children live, learn, and grow. What is new and different for parents...
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Pinterest: A Digital Passport to the World of Images
If you are the parent of a 21st Century digital kid, and you want to try something new in the turbulent, always-changing social media world, you might explore Pinterest — a social media site that...
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Now In Top 10 Child Health Concerns: Internet Safety & Sexting
C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital National Poll on Children’s Health conducts regular surveys several times each year polling adults in around 2000 randomly selected, nationally representative households,...
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Does Digital Life Distort Our Conversation Skills?
Do our conversation skills weaken as we continually connect — virtually and physically — with our digital devices? How does this always-connected environment affect our children and youth? Are...
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Screenagers: An Excellent New Documentary & Digital Parenting Resource
I just finished reading a New York Times Well Blog article about Screenagers, a new documentary that addresses the the challenge that too much screen time presents for families. The March 15, 2016...
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Thinking About Digital Life in 2017? Consider Simon Sinek’s Ideas
As you think about parenting or teaching digital natives in 2017, check out this presentation, Millennials in the Workplace, by Simon Sinek, an author and business consultant who writes on business,...
View ArticleCan You & Your Kids Balance Life With So Much Social Media & Tech?
Take a few minutes to read Five Ways Parents Can Help Kids Balance Social Media With the Real World, appearing in the July 11, 2017 Washington Post. Written by Adrienne Wichard-Edds, the Post article...
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