This short video reviews strategies to relieve technology’s impact on:
- Physical: Sleep
- Mental: Self-soothing, self-regulation
- Relationship Skills: Unhealthy and healthy friendship skills, digital drama, cyberbullying, upstanders
Additional Resources
Digital Citizenship Guide for Parents
- Organization: MediaSmarts
- Type: pdf guide
- Focus: Respecting people’s feelings, privacy, and digital property.
e-Parenting Tutorial: Keeping up with your kids’ online activities
- Organization: MediaSmarts
- Type: eTutorial (requires Internet Browser that supports Flash Player)
- Focus: 5 modules: 1) Online research and homework 2) Online relationships 3) Inappropriate content 4) Online marketing 5) Too much time online
TED Talk: Connected But Alone?
- Organization: TED
- Type: Video (18:30 minutes)
- Focus: Sherry Turkle studies how our devices and online personas are redefining human connection and communication — and asks us to think deeply about the new kinds of connection we want to have.
Last updated May 06, 2021