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 * Sticky Note Wall:** (5 minutes to "sticky up")
 * Stories & Strategies: Your own "Tales from the Trenches" and/or What works well in your home?
 * Personal Tech Wish List: What is your own technology goal?


 * You're Still the Parent**
 * It's an ongoing dialogue!
 * With spouse/partner
 * With children
 * With other parents
 * With MCDS
 * You have some decisions to make about technology in your household
 * Social Media Parenting: Raising the Digital Generation
 * How much screen time...for you AND your children?
 * What is the location/availability of the equipment?
 * What content do you want your kids to have access to on your TV/Computer?
 * What equipment do you give your kids? iPods? iTouches? Cell phones? Texting? At what age?
 * Do you give your kids laptops?
 * Technology in other peoples' homes
 * Online access
 * Strategies that you can take home today and use at home
 * Discuss media limits that work for your family members
 * CSM Famiy Media Agreement - Grades K-5
 * CSM Family Media Agreement - Grades 6-8
 * Internet Safety
 * ** How to: check history **
 * ** How to: [|clear your download history] **
 * Filtering and Blocking Software
 * Search for filtering and blocking software
 * How to: Set Parental Controls
 * On a Mac
 * On an iPhone
 * [|On a Nintendo DS]
 * On a Wii
 * [|On Comcast]
 * [|On DirecTV]
 * Google Safesearch


 * What We're Doing Around Media Literacy at School**
 * Tech Scope & Sequence
 * K-2: Exposure
 * 3-5: Tech Skills
 * 6-8: Tech as a Tool
 * AUP starts in 3rd Grade
 * Media Literacy Skills taught at MCDS
 * Search strategies (with hotlists and search engines)
 * Internet Research
 * [|Evaluating web sites] (Grades 5-8)
 * Bibliographies/Citing your sources (4-8)
 * Copyright/Fair Use (5-8)
 * Presentation Skills: Beyond Bullet Points (3-8)
 * Online Publishing (4-8)
 * Social Networking (7-8)
 * Student Accounts
 * Email/Google Docs starts in 5th Grade
 * School account for school-related things
 * Accountable for ANYTHING in their email, including forwarded messages from other people
 * Accounts in other other online tools in 7-8
 * Ning, Voicethread, Jostens, Prezi, Google, using MCDS email & password


 * Top Take Aways**
 * You're the parent...you call the shots even if you're a tech newbie
 * Ask your child to teach you about tech and show you what they're doing with tech
 * Family norms or written agreement about tech in the home
 * Our children are learning about technology usage by observing us and our "tech lives"...model the behavior you want to see
 * Keep the computer in an open, public place. No unlimited internet access in child's room!
 * Your digital life follows you. Teach your children about posting, uploading, etc. Think about college, jobs, permanent record of you. People will "Google" you as you apply to college, for jobs, dating, etc.
 * MCDS works with your kids on this stuff as well. We are your partners in this conversation.


 * Other Resources from various places:**
 * Net Family News (consider subscribing to the newsletter, blog or news feed)
 * Media Awareness Network
 * [|iKeepSafe.org]
 * [|iParent Times]
 * [|PBS Frontline: Growing Up Online]

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 * Other Resources from CommonSense Media:**
 * CSM: How to be a Media Savvy Parent
 * [|CSM: Internet Safety for Elementary School Kids]
 * [|CSM: School Discussion Guides]
 * [|CSM: Protecting Personal Privacy Online]
 * [|CSM: 5 Ways to Avoid Media Overload]
 * [|CSM: Kaiser Family Foundation Study]
 * [|CSM: Kids and Multitasking]
 * [|CSM: 10 Most Violent Games]

//“Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.” ~// //Antoine de Saint-Exupery**//
 * Final Quote:**