How to be a Minecraft Mom?
A great question from a podcast I follow, Offline with Jon Favreau, posed during an interview with Ana Kamenetz:
"...author of "The Art of Screen Time" and NPR education report, talks with Jon about what a healthy amount of screen time looks like for our kids. She teaches Jon the leading research, talks about how the pandemic changed her understanding of screen time, and offers a road map for raising kind, thoughtful kids in an increasingly online world".
Fascinating discussion, one I often consider when I teach kids tech, as in, how can we make tech a family shared experience, rather than a specialty silo skill generationally defined that once away from the classroom, becomes an insidious attention sap. Ana says we all stereotypically understand what a "soccer mom" is, yet how do we teach parents how to say "yes" to tech for their kids that allows them to be the soccer moms of that medium? I wonder if my teaching should hew to THAT audience, more?
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