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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

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

Other Resources from CommonSense Media:

Final Quote:
“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**

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