Google and YouTube’s Resources for Families + Be Internet Awesome Workshop

Google and YouTube provide products and resources to choose the right experience for your family and create healthy, positive digital habits.

On this page, you’ll find information on hosting a Be Internet Awesome workshop, designed to facilitate a discussion between parents and kids around how to be safer and smarter online. Additionally, you’ll find resources on solutions from Google and YouTube that are designed to empower kids, tweens and teens to watch, listen, play, learn, create, and communicate online.

Parents will walk away with: 

• Awareness of the online safety and digital citizen topics and access to resources
• Answers to common questions Google and YouTube get about online safety and digital citizenship
• Action plans, guides, workshops and information to help facilitate discussions at home

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Digital Families Community Events

PTA Connected with Facebook Digital Community Events will serve as opportunities to empower families to have honest conversations about how they respond to real life online interactions and how they can protect each other online.

Parents will be given the space to connect with their children in order to understand what it's like for them to grow up online. 

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The Smart Talk

PTA Connected with NortonLifeLock The Smart Talk program empowers families to have honest conversations about digital wellbeing and device usage by creating a personalized contract.

With this tool and program, PTA leaders will introduce parents to resources that help them have an engaging and honest conversation with their children.

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Ready, Tech, Go!

Parenting in the digital age can be challenging, and families are faced with many important decisions surrounding technology use and digital safety. Determining when their children may be ready for a device and establishing healthy digital habits are chief among them. The PTA Connected: Ready, Tech, Go! program, a collaboration between National PTA and AT&T, will help families parents and caregivers navigate these challenges through meaningful peer-to-peer discussions about screen readiness and ways to promote healthy and responsible device use for all members of the family.

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Build Up and Belong

National PTA has teamed up with Discord to facilitate meaningful technology discussions between teens and their parents and caregivers. Discord is committed to doing their part to create a healthier digital environment for their users and help make Discord even better for students, teachers, and educators.

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Create with Kindness

This program will bring high school families together for an open and interactive discussion with teens on their online experiences and equip families with practical information and resources to enhance online safety as teens use various digital platforms.

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