Whether a parent, an educator, a pediatrician, our “shared responsibility” when it comes to kids and the digital world is helping them become amazing digital citizens. That’s now always an easy task because of the every changing nature of kids and the every changing technological world which tosses at us new technologies at a mind numbing pace.
One way I’ve found helpful to tackle these issues is to develop simple tips for people to use that embody some of these variables in simple ways. A couple years ago I created a tip a day for National Cyber Security Awareness Month and posted one a day. Last year, I posed them in batches. This year, I’m giving them to you all at ones for you to decide how you want to digest them. Perhaps you want to scan them all at once and then go back to the ones that seem to resonate most with you given where you are with your family and their ages. Perhaps you want to just go one at a time. Or, perhaps you’re swamped and just too overwhelmed to even look at these tips right now. That happens to all of us from time to time. Now that you know these tips are here, you can just come back to them when your plate is less full.
So, without further adieu, the tips:
Tip 1 Family Use Media Plan
Tip 2 Digital Stuff Roundup
Tip 3 Modern Teen Life
Tip 4 Words are really online stones
Tip 5 Dr. Gwenn’s Guide to Online Behavior
Tip 6 A game made for the military is too violent for a kid
Tip 7 Unplugged Sunday
Tip 8 Decoding Texting in Teens
Tip 9 Getting the digital message RITE
Tip 10 Controlling our Digital Footprint
Tip 11 Why we need to protect kids online
Tip 12 Wordless Wednesday: Teen life.
Tip 13 Staying Safe from Cybercrimes
Tip 14 TECH is the word
Tip 15 Unplugged Saturday
Tip 16 Unplugged Sunday
Tip 17 Talking to kids about sexting
Tip 18: Busting Digital Myths
Tip 19 Wordless Wednesday – A sign of our times
Tip 20 Know your state laws
Tip 21 Cyberwise Parenting
Tip 22 To Friend or Not To Friend
Tip 23 Unplugged Sunday
Tip 24 Digital Free Dinners
Tip 25 Unplug regularly
Tip 26 Wordlesss Wednesday
Tip 27 Be cyberinformed about cyberbullying
Tip 28 Staying cybersafe all year ’round
Tip 29 You are your child’s best role model
Tip 30 Unplugged Sunday
If you have any questions or comments about any of these tips, let me know via Twitter: @DrGwenn