Event description

**Wednesdays | March 19 - April 16 | 6:30 - 8:00 PM | Book Included*| Limit: 30 Participants**

Gain tools and insights to protect your family online, foster meaningful conversations, and navigate social media challenges with confidence. Learn Media literacy!

Maybe you have or maybe you will be giving your kid(s) smart phones...Do you know how to keep them safe once they're at the Digital Frontier?

What tools do they need? How can they (and you) discern what's safe?

Would you like to make sure they are "social media literate," as defined by knowing how to determine misinformation, disinformation, and the critical thinking skills necessary to maintain emotional and physical safety?

If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, this workshop is for you! Please join us!

**Attendees will receive a copy of The Media and Me: A Guide to Critical Media Literacy by Media Revolution Collective**

3/19/25: Foundation Building

Slingshot Solutions, our IT services provider, will lead a foundation setting session on overall online security for parents and kids alike.

Slingshot Solutions — Small Business IT/Servers/Networks/Web/Internet

3/26/25: Critical Media Literacy for Families

Learn how to become savvy media users and empower your children to develop skills to question, critique, and talk back to the daily messages - both subtle and overt - that the media feed them. Discover family exercises and conversation starters to grow connection and understanding. Diane Kinsella, MA, ACC, CDWF presents. Diane is an International Coach Federation certified coach whose mission it is to support people growing into their best selves.

4/2/25: Misinformation & Disinformation

Online scamming, fact-checking, generative AI, and more! Presented by Dr. Jeffrey Layne Blevins, professor in the School of Public & International Affairs at the University of Cincinnati where he teaches courses in media law and policy, as well as media and politics.

4/9/25: Media Literacy

Dr. Nancy Jennings, a Professor in the School of Communication, Film, and Media Studies and Director of the Children's Education and Entertainment Research (CHEER) Lab at the University of Cincinnati, will share her research about the impact of media on the lives of children and their families. She also studies public policies and practices involved with children's media.

4/16 /25: Now You Know/Round Table

Facilitated discussion to access the wisdom of the room! Share what you've tried, what has worked for you, what has not worked, and what you want to try. Maybe someone else has a solution for you! Leave with a sample "contract" for parents to use with kids.