Parenting for the Digital Generation - A Guide to Digital Education and the Online Environment

Provides a practical handbook for parents, grandparents, teachers, and counselors who want to understand both the opportunities and the threats that exist for the generation of digital natives who are more familiar with a smartphone than they are with a paper book.

List of contents

Preface
Introduction
1. Creating a Healthy Digital Family
2. Managing Online Engagement
3. Information and Digital Literacy
4. Online Education Fundamentals
5. How to be an Engaged Parent in Online and Blended Education
6. Equity and Equality for Online and Blended Education
7. Beyond High School - the Professional Online Presence
8. Copyright, Creativity, and the Teen Artist
9. Mature and Explicit Content
10. Cyberstalking and Online Harassment
11. Radicalization
12. The Dark Web
13. My Child the Hacker
14. Everyday Safety Online: Safe Shopping, Consumer Privacy, and Government's Rights to Search
15. Protecting against Identity Theft and Fraud: A Nontechnical Introduction to Cybersecurity for the Family
Conclusion: Building Balance Online and Offline
Appendices
List of Acronyms
Bibliography
About the Author

About the author

Jon M. Garon is Professor of Law and immediate past Dean at Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad College of Law. He serves as the Director of the Intellectual Property, Cybersecurity, and Technology Law Program.

Summary

Reviews the broad landscape of legal and practical issues facing parents and adolescents when using smart phones and online technologies.

Product details

• Authors: Jon M. Garon, Garon Jon M.
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2022
• EAN: 9781475861952
• ISBN: 978-1-4758-6195-2
• No. of pages: 298
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Lifestyle, personal development; Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > Data communication, networks; EDUCATION / Computers & Technology, EDUCATION / Parent Participation, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Education, Digital lifestyle, Organization & management of education, Advice on parenting, Parenting: advice & issues, Privacy & data protection, Health & safety aspects of IT, Educational administration & organization, Online safety & behaviour