Tech Shock - from Parent Zone

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Tech Shock: Everything you always wanted to know about tech and family life.Podcasting from Parent Zone,the media literacy experts, host Vicki Shotbolt  explores the upsides and downsides of family life in the digital age. With a range of expert guests she looks at online harms to children ranging from pornography to gambling and at what should be done about them. Incurably optimistic, Vicki also celebrate the many benefits of tech for children and young people, as she considers how best to live in a world in which family life is now inescapably digital.Listen every Monday, subscribe, and give us a five star review.

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2. Early years digital media literacy: new report highlights significant gaps
Today
2. Early years digital media literacy: new report highlights significant gaps
Children grow up surrounded by technology – engaging with it from birth. But how do we help parents with information, evidence-based advice and support so that those early interactions can lay the foundations for positive engagement as children grow?Supported by the Nuffield Foundation, the ‘Early years digital media literacy review’ is a new report from Parent Zone. It scopes out existing – or without giving too much away, the absence of – early years interventions: the sorts of initiatives that could foster both digital media literacy and the benefits of tech.To help unpack the findings of this research and to explore the topic further, Vicki is joined by Eleanor Ireland, Programme Head at the Nuffield Foundation; Lucy Betts professor in Social Development Psychology at Nottingham Trent University; and Melanie Pilcher, Quality and Standards Manager at the Early Years Alliance.Talking pointsJust what is ‘digital media literacy’ in the context of the early years and why is it overlooked?To support parents now, can we develop and test interventions all whilst building a necessary evidence base?Collaboration’ is usually championed as an important lever for change – but what might this look like practically, and in this context?Tech Shock is a Parent Zone production. Follow Parent Zone on social media for all the latest on our work on helping families to thrive in the digital age. Presented by Vicki Shotbolt. Tech Shock is produced and edited by Tim Malster.wwwTwitterFacebookInstagram
3. Digital parenting and monitoring technology
Nov 20 2024
3. Digital parenting and monitoring technology
The use of technology to assist with parenting is something that’s becoming a social norm. It's easy to understand why: parents want to know what their children are doing online, where they are when they're out of sight and what digital content they're being exposed to. Knowing your child is safe is the most fundamental of all parenting priorities. But digital parenting, particularly when it involves monitoring technology, raises questions around children’s rights to privacy. This use of technology may also (somewhat counterintuitively) impact family dynamics and wellbeing in negative ways. Far from supporting conversations it might be making them less constructive. This week Vicki is joined by Ekaterina Hertog and Jun Zhao from the University of Oxford and Netta Weinstein from the University of Reading – co-authors on a recent research paper exploring ‘data-driven parenting’ – to discuss this in more detail,  to consider some of the issues surrounding it, and explore the concept of a ‘good digital society’.Talking points:Is digital parenting technology altering – or even replacing – things like communication and open discussion?Does monitoring technology prevent children from learning to self-regulate behaviours and make good decisions? Even with safety as its aim, does digital parenting infringe on a child’s right to privacy or are parents getting the balance right? Tech Shock is a Parent Zone production. Follow Parent Zone on social media for all the latest on our work on helping families to thrive in the digital age. Presented by Vicki Shotbolt. Tech Shock is produced and edited by Tim Malster.wwwTwitterFacebookInstagram