Help consolidate your child's learning on the topic of navigating friendships online this week by following these 4 Tips from Common Sense Education.
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Dear audience,
Your children have now navigated to their new devices. In response to this, please go over the new USER AGREEMENT form together together by discussing the responsibilities pertaining to each section. If you could complete this as soon as possible, it would be greatly appreciated by our IT department.
I love the online world. Yes, it can be a scary place. However, I love its ability to connect us when we're not so connected in the real world, whether it be by distance or some other means. I love how, if taught the skill of how to inquire into a concept, you have a wealth of information at your fingertips. Admittedly, I am a digital native, yet not all my age chose this at an early age like I did.
Like it or not, your children are digital natives and that means they are digital citizens. In fact, we are all digital citizens in some shape or form. Unfortunately for most of you, and that includes myself, this was a concept that we needed to figure out on our own. There was no "manual"; many of us traversed the great online landscape by understanding (and learning from) it on our own ... in beta. I had to learn all of my lessons the hard way. In particular, sometimes this related to passwords, posting photos, and, just being kind online. Luckily, we live in a world where we have some history behind us on this concept of digital citizenship (and plenty of examples of "What not to do"). Your children, by now, have learned about the concepts of password security and click-bait. Now, they are to embark on their "Rings of Responsibility". Note, these ideas are not my own. Thankfully, there are great resources for teaching these topics such as Google's, Be Internet Awesome, and, where I modified this one from, Common Sense Media.
All learning shouldn't just stop within the borders of the classroom, however. This leads us to how you, as parents/guardians, can help support your child at home in relation to their online responsibility.
Thankfully, Common Sense Media has made that simple for you, as a parent/guardian, by offering some tips below. Do bookmark this website; it is a great resource for many things in your home life from considering what apps may be relevant to certain learning areas or age groups, what safe movies are to watch, what books your children could read, and much, much more.
Also available in downloadable PDF format, here.
Feeling brave? Care to share a learning lesson that you learnt in digital citizenship the "hard way"? Or, do you have more generalist words of wisdom towards online responsibility? If so, feel free to share in the comments below!
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