Monday, August 30th, 2010

As summer draws to a close and parents ready their homes for the start of another school year, it’s the ideal time to discuss digital citizenship and responsible internet usage practices with kids.  This digital workshop from the Verizon Foundation and Frontline entitled, ‘Advice for Parents,’ focuses on digital parenting.  Anne Collier, web safety expert and editor of www.netfamilynews.org, emphasizes that while parents cannot remove all risks from a child’s life online, they can empower and educate children to be responsible social web users.  And, in fact, this empowerment and education is a vital part of their cognitive development. 

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Thursday, April 8th, 2010

The Verizon Foundation and Frontline developed a series of digital workshops for parents. This series of interactive resources will help parents deepen their knowledge of how digital technology is transforming our society and to gain insights into understanding, analyzing and participating in our technology-infused world.

The digital workshops include activities for adults to learn how to manage their family’s media usage, to become a better caregiver to the “digital natives” in their lives, to assess the impact of technology in education, and to explore the effects of multitasking on our brains and much more.

The second digital workshop in this seri

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Wednesday, March 31st, 2010

The Verizon Foundation and Frontline developed a series of digital workshops for parents. This series of interactive resources will help parents deepen their knowledge of how digital technology is transforming our society and to gain insights into understanding, analyzing and participating in our technology-infused world.

The digital workshops include activities for adults to learn how to manage their family’s media usage, to become a better caregiver to the “digital natives” in their lives, to assess the impact of technology in education, and to explore the effects of multitasking on our brains and much more.

The first digital workshop in this serie

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Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

With support from the Verizon Foundation, for the past 10 months PBS FRONTLINE and the production team at “Digital Nation,” have been exploring how digital media and the Web transformed virtually every aspect of the way we live. From the way we learn and work to the ways in which we socialize and even conduct war, nothing has had more of an impact on a single generation. But is the technology moving faster than we can adapt to it?

The answers to these questions will be explored in the broadcast premiere of PBS’s new multiplatform documentary “Digital Nation: Life on the Virtual Frontier

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