Carrie Rogers-Whitehead is a pioneering voice in the field of digital citizenship, founding Digital Respons-Ability to educate thousands of parents, students, and educators. Her work delves into practical strategies and real-world applications for fostering responsible online behavior. As a mother, she is deeply invested in the practical challenges of navigating the digital world, continually seeking to improve her own approach to digital parenting. She advocates for a proactive and informed approach to digital engagement for all ages.
Helping Young Children Navigate the Internet Responsibly
Drawing from original research and extensive experience with children and families, this guide offers parents practical strategies to nurture tech-savvy kids aged eight and under. It emphasizes fostering healthy and safe online habits, ensuring that children develop positive relationships with technology from an early age.
How can we protect our kids online—and teach them to protect themselves? In just a generation, childhoods have changed radically. More than half of children in the US now own a smartphone by the age of eleven; and the latest data shows teens spending an average of seven hours a day on screen media. As parents, we can feel overwhelmed by this rate of change, and concerned that we don’t understand what our children are doing online. The 3Ms of Fearless Digital Parenting unpacks the “3 Ms” of parenting in the digital age, a proven approach used with thousands of parents through the work of Digital Respons-Ability and its founder, Carrie Rogers-Whitehead. Through consultations with families, classes with parents, discussions with children and teens, and much more, this book presents Carrie’s approach in an accessible, easy-to-implement manner, giving all parents the opportunity to develop healthier tech use in their homes. Parent confidently and without fear with The 3Ms of Fearless Digital Parenting.
Becoming a Digital Parent is a practical, readable guide that will help all parents have confidence to successfully navigate technology with their children. It accessibly presents evidence-based guidance to offer an overview of the digital landscape, empowering parents to embrace opportunities whilst keeping children responsible and safe online.Covering a range of topics including developmental stages, screen time, bed time, gaming, digital identities, and helpful parenting apps and resources, Carrie Rogers-Whitehead explores the challenges and opportunities involved in parenting in the digital age. With advice for parents of babies through to teenagers, each chapter includes an explanation of the latest research, interviews with parents and experts, and helpful case studies gathered by the author during her extensive experience of working directly with parents and children. This book will show parents how to communicate better with their children, create a family technology plan, put in place intervention strategies when things happen, and take advantage of the benefits technology can afford us.Becoming a Digital Parent is ideal for all parents looking to effectively navigate the technological world, and the range of professionals who work with them.
This title brings together original research on digital citizenship from working with hundreds of K-12 students. This readable guide includes sample lesson plans, worksheets, suggestions of teaching models, assessment tools and more. With this book, any educator can help bring digital citizenship to their students, colleagues and organization.
Jak pomoci dětem vybudovat si zdravý vztah k technologiím Cítíte se doma zahlceni digitálními technologiemi? Máte strach o své děti, co se jim může ve virtuálním světě stát? Tato kniha přináší „TŘI zásady digitálního rodičovství“ pro tři věkové kategorie dětí. Jde o osvědčený postup využívaný tisíci rodiči. Jako rodiče se mnohdy nepotýkáme jenom s nedostatečnou znalostí moderních technologií, ale také s nesprávným pochopením vývojových fází svých dětí. V důsledku toho můžeme na děti klást nereálná očekávání. Přístup dětí k technologiím se s věkem proměňuje úměrně s tím, jak se vyvíjí jejich mozek. Co funguje u tříletého dítěte, rozhodně nebude mít úspěch u teenagera. S pomocí této knihy si vybudujete zdravý přístup k digitální zodpovědnosti. Odměnou vám budou spokojenější vztahy v rodině a méně stresu díky bezpečnějšímu používání technologií. Přestaňte s technologiemi bojovat, přijměte je a naučte se je vyžívat co možná nejlepším způsobem. Staňte se sebevědomými a nebojácnými digitálními rodiči.