Our students live in a digitally enhanced world, both in their social and learning spaces. Today’s kids have 24/7 access to people, information, and ideas with digital technologies. As parents, in partnership with educators, it’s our responsibility to help students stay safe and become constructive digital citizens while utilizing online resources. Empowering our learners in understanding the best ways to engage with others online in a safe and ethical way is critical.
In Green Bay Area Public Schools (GBAPS), we value the rich learning, innovative creation, and communication experiences that technology brings to our students, classrooms and families' lives. To support student learning, each student is assigned a district issues device. In accordance with district policy and federal law, student devices are monitored to ensure the well being and safety of all users.
Together, the district and families can assist students in learning appropriate ways to interact within a digital environment for learning and entertainment purposes. We believe that with parents and guardians as our partners, we can help our students gain skills, understanding, and dispositions that will enable them to be responsible and safe in digital environments.
It is important that students have set guidelines and expectations when using devices. Set guidelines and expectations to include screen time allowances and understanding of student data privacy. Going beyond expectations and guidelines for children, parents too may set technology rules for themselves to model healthy use of technology.