Featured Resource
NetzSmartz
NetSmartz is National Center for Missing & Exploited Children's online safety education program. It provides age-appropriate videos and activities to help teach children be safer online with the goal of helping children to become more aware of potential online risks and empowering them to help prevent victimization by making safer choices on- and offline.
Today's children are digital natives. Thus, adults must ensure that they grow up using digital technology in the safest way possible. NetSmartz offers prevention resources to address the evolving needs of kids and teens online including videos for elementary, middle, and high school students.
Technology: The application of knowledge for practical purposes; machinery and equipment developed from the application of scientific knowledge.
Overuse: To use something too much; excessive or too frequent use.
LINKS
reSTART
The first inpatient program for Internet addiction in the United States.
Rules 'N Tools
Safety rules and software tools to protect your children online from ProtectKids.com.
ACTIVITIES
Screentime and Wellbeing
Infographic illustrating what the research says about screen time and well-being from TELUS Wise®.
Digital Citizenship Checklist
Use this digital citizen checklist to commit to safe and healthy technology use.
LINKS
How Much Screen Time is OK?
Article by Common Sense that addresses this question including guidelines from the American Academcy of Pediatrics and the World Health Organization.
reSTART
The first inpatient program for Internet addiction in the United States.
Effects of Digital Media on Executive Functioning Skills
Children, Executive Functioning, and Digital Media: A Review, 2020
Rules 'N Tools
Safety rules and software tools to protect your children online from ProtectKids.com.
Tech Trap Resources
Learn about Persuasive Technology, the 5 apps that kids use to hide apps, and the scoop about TikTok from Deborah Berry, author of The Tech Trap.
ACTIVITIES
Screen Time Guidelines
Use the screen time guidelines and the health tech rules to help keep your children's brain development on track.
New Tech Guidelines Contract
Spark a conversation about healthy digital habits with this new device contract by MediaSmarts.
4 Tips for Managing Kid's Screen Time
Tips based on the Canadian Pediatric Society's Position Statement from MediaSmarts.
Co-Viewing Media Tip Sheet
Raise media-savvy kids by co-viewing and use this tip sheet from MediaSmarts.
Digital Citizenship Checklist
Use the digital citizen checklist to create safety and technology use rules
Regularly Schedule Days of Unplugging
Use this link to get a family DIY kit to help reinforce the need to take regularly scheduled days of unplugging from technology.