Raising a Digital Child: A Digital Citizenship Handbook for Parents

ISBN-10: 1564842509
ISBN-13: 9781564842503
Category: Education / Parent Participation
Pages: 167
Language: English
Published: 2009
Publisher: HomePage Books
Author: Mike Ribble

Description

As a parent, do you ever wonder how you can possibly keep up with all the new technologies your children take for granted? Cell phones, online games, instant messaging, social networking, and other technologies have all become so important in the daily of lives of young people. The kids view this new digital culture as a normal way of life, even though as parents you may feel overwhelmed by all the unfamiliar challenges. Cyber bullies, stalkers, identity theft, intellectual property theftits hard to know just what you can do to confront the risks.

You want your children to enjoy all the benefits a technological society has to offer, but at the same time, you want them to stay safe and act as responsible members of society. Raising a Digital Child is your guide to many of the newest and most popular technologies, in parent-friendly language, along with discussions of the risks each might harbor, and the types of behaviors that every child should learn in order to become good a citizen in this new digital world.

Also available:

Web 2.0: New Tools, New Schools - ISBN 1564842347
Safe Practices for Life Online: A Guide for Middle and High School - ISBN 1564842487

About the Author

Mike Ribble has served as a classroom biology teacher, a secondary school administrator, a network manager for a community college, and a university instructor. He received a doctorate in educational leadership from Kansas State University. He is also co-author of the best-selling Digital Citizenship in Schools (ISTE 2007).

Get the book

Similar books

Raising Your Child in a Digital World
By Kristy Goodwin
The book is shaped around the seven essential building blocks for young children's development, namely, Attachment and Relationships, Language, Sleep, Play, Physical movement, Nutrition, and Executive function skills.
Raising Humans in a Digital World: Helping Kids Build a Healthy Relationship with Technology
By Diana Graber
The Internet can be a scary, dangerous place especially for children. This book shows parents how to help digital kids navigate this environment.
Raising Children in a Digital Age: Enjoying the best, avoiding the worst
By Bex Lewis
She puts the Internet scare stories and distorted statistics into context and offers clear and sensible guidelines to help children thrive in the digital jungle.
Parenting for a Digital Future: How Hopes and Fears about Technology Shape Children's Lives
By Sonia Livingstone, Alicia Blum-Ross
This book moves beyond the panicky headlines to offer a deeply researched exploration of what it means to parent in a period of significant social and technological change.
The Modern Parent: Raising a Great Kid in the Digital World
By Martine Oglethorpe
Martine Oglethorpe skilfully combines her professional expertise with the lived experience gained by guiding her own children to be savvy digital citizens. In the pages of this book lies the blueprint for parenting kids in the digital age.
Digital for Good: Raising Kids to Thrive in an Online World
By Richard Culatta
He offers a refreshingly positive framework for preparing kids to be successful in a digital world—one that encourages them to use technology proactively and productively—by outlining five qualities every young person should develop in ...
Raising Digital Families For Dummies
By Amy Lupold Bair
Remind them that even if their friends chat with this person as well, a stranger is still a stranger. ... Comprehending Potential Chat Room Dangers I discuss safety concerns in depth in Chapter 3, but pay close attention to the risks ...
Parenting for the Digital Generation: A Guide to Digital Education and the Online Environment
By Jon M. Garon
See Charlie Osborne, UK Police Deny Responsibility for Poster Urging Parents to Report Kids for Using Kali Linux, ZDNet, Feb. 14, 2020, https://www.zdnet.com/article/uk-policedistance -t hemselves- from- poster -warning- parents -to ...
Raising a Digital Child
By Mike Ribble
Raising a Digital Child is your guide to enable your child to enjoy the benefits of a digital society - safely.
Raising a Screen-Smart Kid: Embrace the Good and Avoid the Bad in the Digital Age
By Julianna Miner
Liu Yi Lin, Jaime E. Sidani, Ariel Shensa, et al., “Association Between Social Media Use and Depression Among U.S. Young Adults.” Depression and Anxiety33.4 (April 2016): 323–31. Hunt, “No More FOMO: Limiting Social Media Decreases ...