Advice for Parents About Technology
Advice From A Teacher and a Mom Every year, during Parent Conferences, I set aside time to speak with each parent/guardian about how their child is using technology at home. We know technology is important, even crucial, to the digital natives we are raising. In many ways, we must prepare our kids to succeed in jobs that may not have been invented yet! We don't want them thinking like this... Here are some tips I always share: Make the technology accessible and developmentally appropriate. For example, we added bookmarks for the sites my kiddos use. My 6-year old can click on his icon, and that takes him to the games/sites he uses at school. He is *not* allowed to just Google it, since we know that he might accidentally click on something we haven't discussed first. My 11-year old has a lot more freedom, but she still clears new sites/apps with either me or her dad. You know, the little online worlds, like Animal Jam, Dragon...
