What you'll learn
- The major digital media mechanics and how they keep us engaged.
- Why children find it difficult to detach from devices and the implications.
- Productive screen-time Vs screen/device addiction.
- Encouraging children to engage with digital media in a healthy way.
- Why parents need to be more vigilant of their children’s online experiences.
Children's online experiences can be productive, as well as distractive.
Are you sure your children are making the most of their time online, or have smart devices just become an easy way to manage them?
Post-lockdown, have you tried to wean children off screens? Are you met with strange reactions when trying to detach them from screens?
Has the resistance made you give up?
Do you think children understand digital better? Are you too busy to explain things so you let them figure it out with friends?
These might not be easy challenges for the generation that grew up in the pre-internet era and are now raising 100% ‘Digital Natives’ – a generation that cannot even imagine a pre-internet era.
Blanket bans are not an option; nor is absolute freedom with smart devices. Children need digital technologies to learn and develop in this age. What grown-ups can do is ensure that digital technologies are working in the child’s interest, and not vice versa. It’s not too difficult once you understand ‘why’ your children are constantly glued to their screens. Once that’s done, we share proven methods that help grown-ups meet children halfway on their online experiences, and reduce overall anxieties.
Instructor
Nidhi Sudhan (Co-founder of Citizen Digital Foundation)
Nidhi is a responsible media & technology advocate, with a 17-year background in advertising, television, radio, and digital. She positively engages education, dialogue, and collaboration so that end users of technology, as well as tech developers, can better understand, and consciously engage in responsible tech use and innovation. Nidhi has worked, studied, and volunteered across, India, UAE, Greece, and the UK. She has launched and established 3 radio stations spearheading content, editorial and branding among other roles. Her last professional stint was in Business Analytics with Chelsea Football Club London, after doing an MBA from Nottingham Business School, UK. Shortly after, she co-founded Citizen Digital Foundation in India. Nidhi also holds several international, advanced certifications in tech stewardship, and intersections of technology with business, society, and democracy.
