This put up is sponsored by Nationwide PTA Prepared, Tech, Go!
Parenting within the digital age isn’t straightforward particularly since our youngsters usually need digital gadgets earlier than we’re prepared for them to have them. Earlier than we put cell telephones, tablets, and computer systems of their fingers, it’s necessary to determine after they’re really prepared for these gadgets then work with them to ascertain wholesome digital habits. However figuring out after they’re prepared and educating them to make use of know-how safely and responsibly is simpler mentioned than finished.
About Prepared, Tech, Go!
Prepared, Tech, Go! gives sources to assist dad and mom and caregivers have significant discussions about display screen readiness whereas selling wholesome and accountable gadget use for all family members.
Supplies supplied by means of Prepared, Tech, Go! train households to:
- Establish and replicate on varied elements of display screen readiness
- Turn into accustomed to instruments and sources to find out display screen readiness and focus on digital life
- Achieve new concepts to assist create a wholesome digital dwelling
Present statistics, questions to contemplate, methods to create digital expectations, dialog starters, and extra sources empower dad and mom to have necessary conversations about digital life and create wholesome display screen habits so all members could make good selections on the subject of know-how use.
Free sources obtainable by means of the web site might be accessed and used at any time. They can be used to assist PTAs plan, promote, and host a 60-80 minute interactive academic occasion to your college neighborhood.
How you can Use Prepared, Tech, Go! to Educate Wholesome Digital Habits
Prepared, Tech, Go! makes it straightforward for any guardian, college workers member, or neighborhood member to current at a PTA assembly or neighborhood occasion. Through the use of this system supplies and sources in a bigger group setting, dad and mom and caregivers can come collectively to share challenges of parenting throughout time when know-how is a part of our youngsters’ every day lives but additionally discover ways to set their household up for achievement by making a wholesome digital dwelling.
How you can Get Began with Prepared, Tech, Go!
One of the simplest ways to get began with Prepared, Tech, Go! is to take a look at their web site. Info to assist your loved ones or methods to host an interactive in-person PTA occasion might be discovered by scrolling half manner down the web page.
There are 4 completely different tabs, every with sources. If you happen to’re on the lookout for data to information you and your loved ones in the direction of good selections on the subject of know-how use, you’ll need to click on on the Promotions tab.
If you happen to’re seeking to host an in-person Prepared, Tech, Go! occasion to your college or neighborhood, you’ll need to go to every of the 4 sections: Planning, Promotion, Internet hosting, and Wrap Up.
The Nationwide PTA and AT&T couldn’t have finished a greater job organizing and creating materials that’s accessible to all! They’ve made it really easy to plan and facilitate an in-person occasion by means of what they’ve made obtainable on their web site! Check out the numerous sources obtainable to make use of at your subsequent PTA assembly beneath, all obtainable in English and Spanish.
Planning a Prepared, Tech, Go! Occasion
Below the Planning tab you’ll discover an Agenda, Planning Information, and Volunteer Invitation- every obtainable in English and Spanish.
The Planning Information serves as a useful doc when planning your reside in-person Prepared, Tech, Go! occasion. It contains what you’ll want to your occasion (Occasion Necessities), Occasion Objectives, listing of key individuals to ask, timeline for promotion, methods to create a finances, and issues for locating audio system.
The Agenda is a downloadable ready-to-print doc for attendees that particulars what might be coated through the occasion. The Occasion Time and allotted time for every session might be edited to suit the size of your assembly.
If you happen to suppose you may want volunteers to your occasion, the Pattern Volunteer Invitation is a downloadable Phrase doc that you would be able to edit to incorporate details about your Prepared, Tech, Go! occasion.
Selling Your Prepared, Tech, Go! Occasion
Essentially the most profitable occasions are those that folks learn about and thankfully, Nationwide PTA makes selling Prepared, Tech, Go! straightforward so it’s a light-weight carry for all concerned.
Pattern Promotional Messaging is your toolkit for getting the phrase out. Prepared, Tech, Go! gives every little thing it’s essential to efficiently promote your occasion by sharing suggestions for efficient messaging, methods to craft your message, in addition to pattern e-Publication and social media posts with steered hashtags.
The Occasion Flier lets you customise it to your occasion. Fliers might be printed and displayed at college, posted to your college’s social media channels, or despatched out digitally by means of electronic mail or listservs.
The textual content of the Participant Invitation can be custom-made so that you can copy, paste, and share by means of your college’s communication channels. I like that it clearly states what dad and mom and caregivers will be taught through the occasion. I shared a part of the Spanish model of the invitation however identical to all the opposite supplies, there may be an English one obtainable too.
Internet hosting Your Occasion
If you happen to’re anxious concerning the content material of the presentation to your Prepared, Tech, Go! occasion, don’t be! Nationwide PTA and AT&T present a Facilitator’s Information to organize you to share the Schooling Presentation along with your viewers.
The Facilitator’s Information gives a script for every of the 32 slides within the PowerPoint Presentation.
The Schooling Presentation is ready-to-share PowerPoint that can be utilized instantly upon downloading. It teaches households about what present analysis says about youngsters’ tech habits, the that means of “display screen readiness,” and gives dialogue questions for small teams to make use of to speak about methods to advertise wholesome and accountable gadget use for all family members.
Every of the PowerPoint slides contains notes, what to say, in addition to cues to play the hyperlinked movies and questions for small teams to make use of to debate.
The Tech-Free Cellphone Prepared Quiz is an interactive quiz that attendees can take to assist dad and mom and caregivers resolve if their little one is telephone prepared.
There’s additionally a downloadable and printable Take-Dwelling Suggestions Sheet for Dad and mom & Caregivers options Suggestions for Constructing Wholesome Digital Habits in Your Dwelling.
This handout contains QR codes that direct attendees to sources shared through the presentation. This may be given out as a tough copy to these attending in individual or emailed as occasion follow-up.
If you happen to’d prefer to take images of your occasion, there’s additionally a Media Launch Kind for attendees to signal.
Wrap Up Assets
After the occasion, use the Speaker Thank You Letter, Volunteer Thank You Letter, and Participant Thank You Letter templates to correctly thank those that attended.
A part of making a wholesome digital dwelling entails feeling empowered to have conversations with our youngsters concerning the know-how of their lives and I’m glad that Prepared, Tech, Go!’s free supplies and sources may also help. I like {that a} wealth of sources is out there in a single place to show dad and mom concerning the necessary conversations they should be having with their youngsters to lift accountable digital residents.
After studying this put up and looking on the sources, share Prepared, Tech, Go! along with your PTA! Share this put up or a hyperlink to the Prepared, Tech, Go! web site to allow them to know the way they will use these supplies to show households methods to have necessary conversations about connecting safely and creating wholesome digital habits.
This put up was sponsored by Nationwide PTA however all opinions are my very own.
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