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Digital Parenting: Protecting and Empowering Kids

Let's face it: Parenting the digital generation can be tough. Watch The Password Battle and explore resources for parents on how to balance concerns about safety with a teen’s healthy need for independence.

21st Century Schools: Learning in the Digital Age

Teachers are tapping into technology and digital media for learning. Watch How Google Saved a School and discuss the hype and the hopes for improving education through technology.

The Digital You: Attention, Multitasking and Addiction

It's becoming harder to imagine our lives without digital technology. But do we use it too much? Watch Multitasking at M.I.T. and learn how to keep a balanced relationship with the technology in your life.

Learning in Virtual Worlds

Video games and virtual realities have allowed us access to entirely new virtual worlds. Watch What Games Teach and explore the remarkable power of alternate realities to do much more than just entertain.

Learn how to be a better parent, teacher or caregiver to the “digital natives” in your life and gain the knowledge and skills for understanding, analyzing and participating in our technology-infused world.

WATCH the featured videos from Digital Nation.
PARTICIPATE in online quizzes and polls to reflect on your digital life.
RATE your agreement or disagreement with controversial issues in “Where Do You Stand?”
READ more about “digital natives” from our parenting and educational experts.
COMMENT on the ideas explored in this program.

Acknowledgements

Simone Nathan-Bloom and Professor Renee Hobbs conceptualized the design of this curriculum. Renee Hobbs developed the program materials with support from her team at the Media Education Lab at Temple University's School of Communications and Theater in Philadelphia, Pa. Writers included Kelly Mendoza, Jiwon Yoon, Henry Cohn-Geltner and Renee Hobbs.

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American Academy of Pediatrics
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) is a national organization of 60,000 pediatricians whose mission is to attain optimal physical, mental, and social health and well-being for all infants, children, adolescents, and young adults. The AAP's Council on Communications and Media makes recommendations about media use and the media's effects on children, and also promotes information about child health topics through the media.

Young Adult Library Services Association
For more than 50 years, YALSA has been the world leader in selecting books, videos and audiobooks for teens; they also administer Teen Tech Week, a national initiative to ensure that teens are competent and ethical users of technologies offered through libraries.

Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media is dedicated to helping parents and educators teach kids how to be safe, smart and responsible in today’s 24/7 media world.

Family Online Safety Institute
The Family Online Safety Institute works to make the online world safer for kids and their families by identifying and promoting best practice, tools and methods in the field of online safety that also respect free expression.

National Association for Media Literacy Education
The National Association for Media Literacy Education is a national membership organization dedicated to ensuring that multiple media literacies are included in every child's education. NAMLE’s biennial conference series connects educators with new concepts and ideas to help students thrive in our increasingly digital world.

National Education Association’s Health Information Network
NEA/HIN presents bNetS@vvy, a comprehensive Internet safety Web site that provides up-to-date information about online trends and behavior, and offers practical cyber safety tools for use in the home and the classroom. Their goal is to help parents and educators guide children towards the safe and savvy use of social technology.

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