Description
Book SynopsisParenting for the Digital Generationprovides a practical handbook for parents, grandparents, teachers, and counselors who want to understand both the opportunities and the threats that exist for the generation of digital natives who are more familiar with a smartphone than they are with a paper book. This book provides straightforward, jargon-free information regarding the online environment and the experience in which children and young adults engage both inside and outside the classroom.
The digital environment creates many challenges, some of which are largely the same as parents faced before the Internet, but others which are entirely new. Many children struggle to connect, and they underperform in the absence of the social and emotional support of a healthy learning environment. Parents must also help their children navigate a complex and occasionally dangerous online world.
This book provides a step-by-step guide for parents seeking to raise
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
1. Creating a Healthy Digital Family
2. Managing Online Engagement
3. Information and Digital Literacy
4. Online Education Fundamentals
5. How to be an Engaged Parent in Online and Blended Education
6. Equity and Equality for Online and Blended Education
7. Beyond High School – the Professional Online Presence
8. Copyright, Creativity, and the Teen Artist
9. Mature and Explicit Content
10. Cyberstalking and Online Harassment
11. Radicalization
12. The Dark Web
13. My Child the Hacker
14. Everyday Safety Online: Safe Shopping, Consumer Privacy, and Government’s Rights to Search
15. Protecting against Identity Theft and Fraud: A Nontechnical Introduction to Cybersecurity for the Family
Conclusion: Building Balance Online and Offline
Appendices
List of Acronyms
Bibliography
About the Author
