CASE Parent Education – Union County
PARENTING IN A HYPER DIGITAL AGE
The Basics of Student Cyber Safety
This lesson covers student technology trends and introduces parents to the parent-student technology agreement. It stresses the importance of continued communication about online dangers with your student through the years from digital infancy until digital adulthood.
Healthy Technology in the Home
Healthy technology can be achieved by creating a digital roadmap for your family and creating technology free space and time within your home. In this lesson, parents will learn about an exit strategy for their students when they encounter online dangers. This lesson ends with highlighting gaming challenges and suggestions as well as a discussion about Discord.
Balancing Our Digital Life
In this lesson, parents are challenged to think about their own screen time usage, while learning ways to help their student manage theirs effectively. Parents are introduced to the social media overexposure rules for safety, and the benefits as well as negative impacts of regularly using social media.
When is My Child Ready for a Smartphone?
In this lesson, parents take turns analyzing their own screen time habits from the week prior. They learn best practices for protecting their student’s personal information and how filtering and monitoring tools can help them parent around technology. The lesson ends with the facts about online predators including warning signs to look for.
Protecting My Teenager Online
This lesson examines both cyberbullying as well as digital drama with concrete suggestions for students to take action, including the power of being an upstander. We discuss the effects of the Internet on sleep habits and finish the discussion with pertinent information on sexting and sextortion.
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