Engaging Families in Healthy Tech Conversations

Explore The Smart Talk initiative aiming to facilitate open dialogues within families about technology use. Session objectives include making informed online choices, fostering honest conversations, and setting tech rules. Various activities foster understanding, such as technology check-ins, effective communication tips, and decision-making prompts. Families are encouraged to communicate openly, set boundaries, and stay connected in the digital age.

• Family communication
• Technology use
• Healthy habits
• Parenting tips
• Digital literacy

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1. The Smart Talk In collaboration with:

2. Session Objectives 1. Make the best online choices for yourself and your families. 2. Have honest conversations about technology use. 3. Set technology rules everyone can agree on. In collaboration with:

3. Technology Check In Kids: raise your hands if you: Know what your parents or caregivers are doing online. Feel like your parents have healthy media habits. Adults: raise your hands if you: Know what your kids are doing online. Feel like your kids have healthy media habits. Families: raise your hands if you: Talked about online safety. Worked together to set healthy technology limits. In collaboration with:

4. Talk It Out Parents/Caregivers: You will be better informed and more comfortable with your kids digital life. Kids/teens: You will be better prepared to create a healthy and safe digital life. Families: You will be in this together. In collaboration with:

5. What Can Families Do? Decide What Is Right for You Communicate Effectively Have The Smart Talk In collaboration with:

6. Decide What Is Right For You Would You Rather? 1. Let someone in your family put child restrictions and monitoring apps on your device OR let them look through your phone whenever they want to? 2. Text happy birthday to a friend OR say it to them on a video chat? 3. Play video games OR watch movies or a show on your device? 4. Be exhausted but the first to know something OR get some sleep and be the last to know? *Would You Rather? Prompts used by permission from Dr. Kristen Mattson and Edvolve In collaboration with:

7. Communicate Effectively Go in with curiosity Talk to each other not at each other. Avoid distractions. Be open about your behaviors and experiences. Believe what each other is saying. Do not use honesty against each other. Be open to learning from each other. Remember it is OK to not have all the answers. In collaboration with:

8. Have The Smart Talk thesmarttalk.org In collaboration with:

9. Family Activity 1: The Impact of Technology 1. 2. 3. How does technology help your lives? How does technology make things harder? What are some ways your family is more connected because of technology? What are some ways your family is less connected because of technology? How can your family stay connected while keeping technology in your lives? 4. 5. In collaboration with:

10. Family Activity 2: Determine Your Online Values Family Values: The principles that helps your family decide what is right and wrong, and how to act in various situations; the rules to help guide your actions Sample Values: Honesty, respect, kindness, integrity, faith 1. What are your family s values? How will they guide your online behavior? 2. What online behaviors are OK for your family? Which are not OK? In collaboration with:

11. Family Activity 3: Find Your Balance Things to consider: 1. What activities do you do the most online? 2. Is the time you are spending on your device a good use of your time? 3. Are some activities a better use of time than others? 4. When you are online, do you mostly consume content or create it? 5. When you spend time online, what other things are not getting done? 6. How do you feel about what you are not getting done? In collaboration with:

12. Family Activity 4: Set Up Your Smart Talk Profile In collaboration with:

13. Questions? In collaboration with:

14. Thank You! In collaboration with: