Parents & Educators
Now is not the time to be coy, shy, timid, or indirect with your kids and students. Every time they use Digital Technology, they open themselves up to the world, and the risks that we all inherit once we power up!
Here are a few tips that we strongly recommend:
1: Talk candidly and openly with your kids and students about what they are doing online or with their cell phone before its to late!
2: Try your best to know who your kids and students are communicating with. If they are not going to offer the information freely, do not hesitate to send us an email for advice.
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3: Try your best to limit unmonitored online and cell phone use.
Teachers: Prohibit cell phone use in the classroom, and talk to your IT administrator about filtering websites reachable through school computers and your online service.
Parents: If your kid wants a computer in their room to do homework or a project, that is fine, but try placing the computer with internet access in a common room in the home. There are many utilities like thumb drives that provide your child the ability to save the information they require from internet research in the family room computer and bring it to their computer (with no internet access) to add to their homework. Of course, they could always do the entire project from the common room as well. ;)
Parents: Turn your internet access off from the router, or limit the time in which your child is allowed to spend on the internet per day.
Parents: Set a time for your kids to "turn in" their cell phones for the day. You are the parent and you can set limits on the time of day the phone can be used.
4: Try to be aware of what your kids or students are posting online. Do they have a My Space or Facebook account? If so, ask them to see their page. If they say no, ask them why. Explain to them that anything they are posting online should be something that they should be ok with you seeing as well as the rest of the world because nothing is truly private online.
5: If you have not already, we also strongly suggest contacting our Speakers Bureau about putting together one of our nationally acclaimed Live Events for your school or community.
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