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Project purpose statement:
Highlighting the importance of ongoing dialogue between educators and parents regarding digital literacy, citizenship, device management, policy and goals.
Providing tools for both parents and teachers to both evaluate and converse on the utility and management of adolescent smartphone use.
< Notes about this resource. >
This resource is not an extensive resource on these topics, but rather meant to provide a launching point or inspiration for further investigation and discussion.
There are no age specific suggestions on appropriate smart phone/device acquisition and usage (apart from the article citing Bill Gates' age of acquistition suggestion) included. This is purposeful because (it is the author's opinion) it is not a one size fits all, parents and educators alike will need to make their own choices. This resource is not meant to provide specific answers but rather to start investigative conversations that will hopefully lead to informed personal decisions.
From the author
Rich Payne has had the good fortune of spending his career starting in 2006 focused on international education program delivery, sales and management.
In my role, student issues come do across my desk (if serious enough). I have seen number of student's digital privacy and safety compromised as well as struggles with screen time and focus. At the same time, I recognize that our young learners possess an incredible digital literacy skill set exercised through powerful tools that they need to learn to manage. There is an opportunity to leverage the (lifelong) educational utility of the technology as well as a need to safeguard their digital identity and become good, literate digital citizens. Increasingly parents may rely on schools to teach digital literacy and self-management. Due to the ubiquitous nature of these personal devices, that new role of the school, will require ongoing communication, understanding and buy in from parents.
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