Screenwise : helping kids thrive (and survive) in their digital world

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Title:

Screenwise : helping kids thrive (and survive) in their digital world

Author:

Heitner, Devorah, 1975- author.

ISBN:

9781032371726

9781032350134

Personal Author:

Heitner, Devorah, 1975- author.

Edition:

Second edition.

Physical Description:

xii, 282 pages ; 22 cm

General Note:

Source of cataloging data: WCP

Abstract:

"The second edition of Screenwise offers a refreshed, realistic, and optimistic perspective on how to thoughtfully guide kids in the digital age. Many parents feel that their kids are addicted, detached, or distracted because of their digital devices. Media expert Devorah Heitner, however, believes that technology offers huge potential to our children--if parents mentor them. Using the foundation of their own values and experiences, parents and educators can learn about the digital world to help set kids up for a lifetime of success in a world fueled by technology. Screenwise is a guide to understanding more about what it is like for children to grow up with technology all around them, and to recognizing the special challenges--and advantages--that contemporary kids and teens experience thanks to this level of connection. In it, Heitner presents practical parenting hacks: quick ideas that you can implement today that will help you understand and relate to your digital native. The new edition includes updated material and additional strategies for parents and caretakers."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction -- Raising kids in an always-connected world -- Your kid's digital world: what are they doing on there? -- Assessing your own digital literacy -- Becoming a tech-positive parent -- Empathy is the app -- Balancing family life in the age of constant connection -- Friendship and dating in the digital age -- School life in the digital age -- Growing up in public -- Conclusion: Digital citizenship for the next generation.

Subject Term:

Internet and children.

Internet -- Social aspects.

Internet -- Moral and ethical aspects.

Parenting.

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The second edition of Screenwise offers a refreshed, realistic, and optimistic perspective on how to thoughtfully guide kids in the digital age.

Many parents feel that their kids are addicted, detached, or distracted because of their digital devices. Media expert Devorah Heitner, however, believes that technology offers huge potential to our children--if parents mentor them. Using the foundation of their own values and experiences, parents and educators can learn about the digital world to help set kids up for a lifetime of success in a world fueled by technology. Screenwise is a guide to understanding more about what it is like for children to grow up with technology all around them, and to recognizing the special challenges--and advantages--that contemporary kids and teens experience thanks to this level of connection. In it, Heitner presents practical parenting "hacks": quick ideas that you can implement today that will help you understand and relate to your digital native. The new edition includes updated material and additional strategies for parents and caretakers.

Reviews (2)

Publisher's Weekly Review

Acknowledging the impossibility of fully sheltering children from the world of digital media, Heitner (Connecting Wisely in the Digital Age), founder and director of the consultancy Raising Digital Natives, provides guidance for parents navigating this ever-changing landscape. She covers common concerns about children of different ages, from preschool to young adult, and even looks at how the digital world influences adults. Heitner also reports that researchers have found that "the number of young people who produce as well as consume content has risen dramatically," even among those as young as five. She suggests that parents and educators shouldn't monitor a child's every move but should act as guides and mentors, helping children make good decisions and fostering their creativity. Heitner reminds readers that children learn by example, advising parents to break the habit of checking cellphones constantly and to join their children in playing digital games. She pairs examples from what she has found working with families in her consulting firm with research in the field, such as into the ways kids use social media. This book provides useful advice for the parents of children of all ages and will serve well as a guide to help the different generations communicate, in person or online. (Sept.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

Library Journal Review

Heitner, founder and director of Raising Digital Natives (-RaisingDigitalNatives.com), presents parents with tips for becoming their child's media mentor by encouraging them to be "tech literate" if not a tech whiz. The author provides helpful insight into how today's youth not only consume online information but create it, and that kid-friendly sites such as Google's safe search and the YouTube Kids app can only go so far in helping to guide digital behaviors. She further delivers firm tips for parents to model in their own tech use (clearly defined boundaries, unplugged times, etc.) and solid examples for evaluating kids' readiness to form friendships in the digital world (ability to utilize privacy settings and understand their importance, knowledge about when to take conflicts offline, etc.). In addition to the informative narrative, Heitner also includes valuable questions for parents to ask children that may yield surprising answers (e.g., "Does social media ever stress you out?"). VERDICT All in all, a solid offering for the tech-education collection. -Recommended. © Copyright 2016. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.