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This audio podcast is a recording of Carl Hooker’s presentation “Raised by Siri: A course in Digital Parenting” at the 2015 Miami Device Conference on November 12. The session description was:
SIRIously?!
Remember when your parents used to complain about television and rock n’ roll? Now we complain about Snap Chat and Texting. We are now officially old. Unlike our parents we have tools and resources available to us, but how many of those are valuable and how many of them are scare tactics? In this entertaining session we’ll try and find answers that Siri can’t.
Carl is the godfather of iPadPalooza, an absolutely phenomenal learning event on the level of Miami Device and The Mobile Learning Experience. Carl shared this session at SXSWEDU 2015, and the full hour recording is available on YouTube.
Carl is also the author of a free iTunesU course titled “Digital Parenting 101.” Since his school is 1:1 with iPads, offering this parent resource via iTunesU encourages them to use and get more familiar with their child’s iPad.
These are my tweets from Carl’s session, which was outstanding. Scroll to the end of this post to play the audio podcast from this great session!
gr8 video via @mrhooker in "Digital Parenting" #miamidevice session: Awkward Things Your Parents Do With Technology https://t.co/5kRhNwUQoY
— Wesley Fryer, Ph.D. (@wfryer) November 12, 2015
gr8 story from @mrhooker at #miamidevice today: Asking school board members to sit in student desks for an entire board meeting cc #OklaEd
— Wesley Fryer, Ph.D. (@wfryer) November 12, 2015
sexting, cyberbullying & porn existed pre-Internet, but moved slower via @mrhooker #miamidevice (sexting via polaroid & snail mail?)
— Wesley Fryer, Ph.D. (@wfryer) November 12, 2015
1889 Smithsonian article on the DANGER of the telephone via @mrhooker #MiamiDevice #FutureShock pic.twitter.com/t3emGD7CIW
— Wesley Fryer, Ph.D. (@wfryer) November 12, 2015
Demo @mrhooker in "Digital Parenting" #MiamiDevice of "Private Calculator Plus % – Secret Photo & Private Video" app https://t.co/jv0U6ZlRzY
— Wesley Fryer, Ph.D. (@wfryer) November 12, 2015
"If a student designs & codes their own game, they can play it at our school" @mrhooker #MiamiDevice #STEM #smart
— Wesley Fryer, Ph.D. (@wfryer) November 12, 2015
iReading: Why are games good for learning? https://t.co/kwtTiDyyF8 by @helenroutledge via @mrhooker
— Wesley Fryer, Ph.D. (@wfryer) November 12, 2015
"Coding is almost like a foreign language for kids, when their brains are more pliable it's important to introduce" @mrhooker #MiamiDevice
— Wesley Fryer, Ph.D. (@wfryer) November 12, 2015
recommended @TEDTalks by Russell Foster: "Why Do We Sleep?" https://t.co/jLhvO52R85 via @mrhooker #MiamiDevice
— Wesley Fryer, Ph.D. (@wfryer) November 12, 2015
recommended @TEDTalks [VIDEO] by "Your brain on video games" https://t.co/kH1bWIdNkz by Daphne Bavelier via @mrhooker #MiamiDevice
— Wesley Fryer, Ph.D. (@wfryer) November 12, 2015
How French Artists in 1899 Envisioned Life in 2000: Drawing the Future https://t.co/jkLqJFkGny by @openculture via @mrhooker #MiamiDevice
— Wesley Fryer, Ph.D. (@wfryer) November 12, 2015
free iTunesU course "Digital Parenting 101" https://t.co/d8Xf4y5lpe by @mrhooker #MiamiDevice #DigitalCitizenship
— Wesley Fryer, Ph.D. (@wfryer) November 12, 2015
Lots of great presentation videos by @mrhooker https://t.co/JyGEIRxlS9 via #MiamiDevice
— Wesley Fryer, Ph.D. (@wfryer) November 12, 2015
@wfryer @mrhooker too few people wonder why NYC has no telephone wires in the sky. answer: major disaster. pic.twitter.com/SDt0dB4Ot2
— davi (德海) (@daviottenheimer) November 12, 2015