How+To+Parent+In+The+Digital+Age

Hello Group! Let's GET TO IIIIIIT!

I agree! Do you have any ideas about where to get started?

Here is a website that has a free presentation discussing parenting in the digital age: http://www.slideshare.net/datruss/parenting-digitalageslideshare and here is a news article I found: http://www.roanoke.com/columnists/starshine/wb/161600 Let me know what you think! -Keith

Information regarding the legality of parents 'monitoring' an 18 year old's digital activities is surprisingly hard to find. I did find this, but I don't believe it will be too helpful. http://www.sandiego.gov/police/prevention/exercisingauthority.shtml And I'd be on board with creating some sort of website. I was looking forward to the skit, though. Shame. -Josh

Hey Guys, I think we might want to rethink our initial idea to create some sort of a dialog / skit. I looked at the artifact links under the project's description on the D2L page. If you haven't already done so, I suggest taking a look at them. We need to be able to create something that is visible and tangible and can be posted online as a reference for our fellow peers to review and educate themselves on our topic. I suggest creating a website. Let me know your thoughts. -Justin

I think we could make the website and put an activity or two on there that the class could interact with or respond to. The website could be our "artifact", but we could still incorporate a skit or something into the lesson itself. That way we could do both... I checked out all three websites and all offer excellent advice. I really liked the first one, the principal's presentation, which included self-response questions and research and study results. This is the stuff we should include in our lesson instead of just presenting the long list of DOs and DON'Ts for each part of parenting in the digital age. Here are two more good sites to check out: (the first has a lot of other sites and resources at the bottom) (the second has some helpful statistics)

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I think we should gear our lesson towards our peers as educators and not necessarily parents. Recall that educators are supposed to act as students' parents (loco parentis) and so it is within this context that our lesson should address them as "parents".

In regard to each of us researching the different sections we outlined, I've noticed that basically they all say the same thing. So I think we have enough to go on, we just need to plan on how to teach it as a lesson

-Justin

I agree Justin, I think we should try to avoid the "dos and don'ts" listing as much as possible. Maybe we could incorporate them (yes even the extremely unfair and harsh monitoring methods) into a skit the students can perform. We could then have them share their reactions. Are they all necessary? What are some possible alternatives? Since we are the product of technology generation as well, what were their experiences growing up? I have plenty of research to share with you all tomorrow. As for our artifact, I think we can discuss it in detail tomorrow. See you guys tomorrow! -Keith

Here's a link that has some good statistics on it. However, the only issue is they are kind of old (2006) from what I can tell. http://www.enough.org/inside.php?id=2uxkjwry8 -Keith

Good find, Keith. I checked the credibility of the site a little, but it would be great if you could verify its legitimacy, Josh/. Otherwise, I believe if we all come back together with some material we will be all set to go. Actually if we all look through the statistics and come back with our favorites, we could use the ones we overlap on. If you would like to change anything on the "prezi," message me or Keith to get the email/password unless you memorized it. Don't put the information on here since anyone can view and then mess around with it (I'm sure you already knew that though). -Dan

Guys, I talked to Keith earlier tonight and I ok'd the statistics resource. It is only outdated by 5 years in most instances, but the bigger picture should remain the same. -Josh

Sources: http://www.delcotimes.com/articles/2011/08/25/news/doc4e5645da341ec133686951.txt []

 -Keith

Finished Product/Artifact... http://prezi.com/ijo1tparzx-0/parenting-in-the-digital-age/ -Daniel

FYI, I just got an e-mail informing us that this use of Prezi is only a 30-day trial. I wasn't aware that we'd eventually be forced to pay to keep our work. -Daniel