Parenting in the Digital Age
Workshop
This workshop is a must-attend for every parent with
a computer in the home. Topics include Internet advanced
searching and safety. Organize the family files and
learn specific strategies to help with homework
projects, and so much more. This workshop is for all
parents regardless of your technology “skill” level.
Conquering InfoClutter @ Home
Make the most of the family
computer to help manage the infoclutter in your life.
This session is for all the parents that did not grow up
in a networked world, and need someone to put tech stuff
in plain language. With little support from your “power
using children” you spend countless hours trying to make
sense of the machine. In final desperation, one of your
children tries to help taking the mouse and do the
project for you. You need this session to strengthen
your foothold in the computer room. Learn how to
organize files, manage e-mail, actually find things on
the Internet, cure the pop-up ad nightmare and become
more independent. Let this mother of two help you
conquer the infoclutter in your life.
Power Googling for Parents
There is no Dewey Decimal System
for the Internet. So how do you locate what you are
looking for? Everyone needs new skills to process
information in the 21st Century. Gathering
information and weeding through the infoclutter are the
skills everyone needs to be productive citizens in this
age of information. Explore the many tools, tricks and
strategies you can begin to use immediately.
Paper-Trained Parents in a
Video-Game World
Children today ARE different in
many ways. It takes about 20 seconds of trying to
compete at Playstation™ with my son to realize we
process information in completely different ways. He
zooms up a ramp, does a trick and I am still trying to
figure out the controls. I am clueless (direct quote
from son) and I give up. My brain can’t seem to keep up
with action on the screen while somehow commanding the
players to do something with the buttons on the
controller. Luckily science supports my unscientific
discovery that the brain has actually changed over the
years because of exposure to so many visual images. I am
“a paper-trained mom” trying to help these visual
learners learn the way I do. Join me for an eye opening
session about what your children may be doing with this
technology, how we can stay involved, and how some of
these tech tools help tackle couch potato syndrome.
