Parents - Shelly Sanchez Terrell. 'Parenting in the digital age' on slideshare. Raising 'Digital' Kids - Parent Workshop by David Truss - home. Parenting in a Digital Age, Colchester, May 2014. Living with Laptops: Digital Citizenship for Parents. Digital Parenting 101: An iTunesU Course For Parents. Digital Parenting iTunesU course Part of having any type of success in a school is to have the support of parents.
While some schools can overcome a lack of parent involvement or support, most depend on the idea that “it takes a village” to raise a child. The same is true of any successful mobile device initiative. Digital Citizenship Flashcards. E-Safety Parent's Assembly. AUP Acceptable Use Policy links. Developing Outstanding E-Safety Provision. The first thing to realise when thinking about e-safety is that it does not involve teaching children how to communicate online - the skills needed to: create online avatars, attach files to messages etc. should be taught separately.
E-Safety is about ensuring that children can understand the risks associated with communicating online and can describe some safe and responsible strategies/rules to follow to help minimise or respond to them. A few months ago, Ofsted published a document (see here) detailing what they consider to be outstanding e-safety provision in primary (elementary) schools. Some important things that they mention include the need to: All of these can implemented fairly easily using simple strategies like: