The theme is digital citizenship. We will cover what digital citizenship is today and why its SO important to your childs future. These terms didnt exist a few years ago. Then we will talk about what actions you can take to prepare your tween to become a model digital citizen. Like all great classes, we will wrap up this module with a homework assignment. Dont worry you wont have to do algebra or geometry, but this program is designed to give you specific elements to implement!
- Corresponding handout for reference with important key concepts
- Homework assignment to complete with tween on understanding digital citizenship
This bonus list gives parents action items covering digital citizenship to implement with your tween
Well also cover some best practice suggestions for you to help your tweens distinguish the difference.
While Facebook and Twitter are certainly the most common sites, I will share some kid friendly social networks that you might not be aware of and then well conclude with your homework assignment so you can take what you are learning and apply it with those tweens!
- Corresponding handout with key points highlighted covering the power of social media
- Homework assignment to help you guide your tween in understanding the positive and negative powers of social media
This action-oriented checklist will allow you to put this critical knowledge on the power of social media to use right away
This video covers safety and privacy on social media. First, I will share some real life examples of parents struggling everyday to keep up with their tech savvy tweens, and I want you to make note of the problems you relate to. You will start to see how childrens safety and privacy begins with parents knowing what to look for.
After we talk through some of these current scenarios, we will cover some ground rules we suggest you set for kids today when they are participating on social networks to keep them safe. These are real-life best practices weve gleaned from other parents, our own experience and tremendous research.
Within these ground rules we will get into what and how to actually set the privacy options on social networks using Facebook as our example. We will head on over to Twitter and show you which settings to be aware of as your tweens begin to tweet more and more. As you know, we will end with your homework assignment.
- Corresponding handout for reference highlighting key concepts of social media safety and privacy
- Homework assignment to help you utilize our best practices in real life to help guide your tweens social media use
In this video, we will focus on what we define as social media manners. Social media manners are so important because they are a reflection on your child AND ON YOU. Furthermore, kids manners used to just be judged in an isolated case; now how they interact is on display for all to see and essentially has a digital paper trail.Ill share what some research tells us about kids and their behavior on social media sites. Youll see that the research reinforces what parents may already know intuitively, but what their tweens struggle with or worse dont even consider. Well discuss what ethical decisions in the online world should look like. We will talk about good vs bad social media manners and why many are more comfortable exhibiting rude behavior on Social Networks as opposed to real life/face to face behavior. . Well discuss how to teach your kids to recognize and exhibit good social media manners and be part of the solution rather than the problem!
- Top 10 rules of good Social Media Manners
- Social Media Manners homework assignment
Social media manners checklist to share with tweens
Digital responsibility in social media can be defined as a balance of accountability between tech savvy, i.e., knowledgeable about all things technology and computer related AND social savvy, i.e. able to build positive relationships and contribute constructively to your networks/communities.
In this video, we will examine this definition more closely and share steps to building this balance for your tech savvy tween! We will examine why becoming digitally responsible is essential for our children now in what is dubbed the participatory culture in other words a culture in which private persons (the public) do not act as consumers only, but also as contributors or producers of published media. You will be introduced to some real life kids who are positive online influencers. We will share specific online actions and behaviors that your tween can use to become digitally responsible within social media!
- Corresponding handout covering the important points to digital responsibility
- Action plan for helping your child implement the steps to becoming digitally responsible
A bonus list of digital responsibility highlights and terms to implement with your tween
We will try to answer the question: Why does it seem so prevalent? And examine if it is as common as it seems.
Then we will focus on prevention and why its key.
We will look at the difference between upstanders and bystanders- Why do some young people choose to intervene in cases of cyber bullying and others ignore it or worse join in?
Ill share some guidelines to helping your tween become an upstander.
And finally we will focus on empowering your tween to prevent cyber bullying with specific things he/she can do to ensure they dont get caught in one of these circumstances even by accident.
- Corresponding handout covering important topics of Cyberbullying including upstander vs bystander
- Homework assignment covering best real life practices to deal with cyberbullying and help guide your tweens social media use
An action-oriented checklist covering best tips for limiting cyberbullying
We will discuss online rep management for your tween today, tomorrow and in the future beyond and in the near future and beyond. I will profile one young lady who has created her own positive persona and shines when it comes to online reputation managementshell give you parents a specific example of and possibly some ideas to show your kids.
The meat of this video will focus on how we as parents can help our tween create, maintain and manage a positive online reputation. This is especially important as we begin to think a few steps ahead for when its time to be applying to college.
- Corresponding handout covering key points and tips for online reputation management
- Homework will focus on researching your tweens online reputation in real time
The bonus list includes tips and best practices to managing your tween's online reputation
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