MOM 2.0

Presented by Bon Education @ Magrudy’s Education Resource Center

Description: Children inhabit a world in which media plays an enormous part of their social and educational landscape, the Internet, cell phones, mobile devices, Facebook, Club Penguin, Twitter and more! Mom 2.0 is a series of workshops aimed at helping moms understand the digital knowledge and skills their children must have in order to:

• Be digitally literate • Be responsible consumers and producers of media • Interact safely online • Realize the amazing educational potential of education technology tools!

Join other moms in a series of collaborative workshops that will build your technology skills and teach you about free digital tools for you and your children and save time and homework stress down the road! We welcome you to our Fall Mom 2.0 Workshops (details on following pages):

• Digital Tools for Homework Help (M01) • Blogging 101 (M02) • Developing Young Readers: Strategies and Technology Tools (M03) • Digital Literacy and Cyber Safety: What Kids and Parents Need to Know (M04)

Making the Internet work for your family

Digital Tools for Homework Help (M01) Learn how to breeze through future school projects and avoid homework time stress! In this workshop moms will:

• Learn how to use the Internet to save homework time and stress. • Discover top age-appropriate and free educational sites for helping students learn literacy, math, science and history. • Gain expertise on how to conduct effective Internet research for school projects and homework help. • Become a member of and learn how to use Curriki—an online education community with access to over 30,000

educational lessons, study guides and videos. This workshop is offered twice. Participants should select one of the following dates to attend:

• December 6, 2009 (Sunday), 9am-12pm • December 15, 2009 (Tuesday), 9am-12pm

Blogging 101 (M02) Blogs are a wonderful way to stay in touch with family, grandparents and friends, share photos and videos, develop writing skills and more. Not to mention, more and more teachers are using blogs to help children develop communication skills and keep parents abreast of what is going on in the classroom. During this workshop, participants will learn what blogging is, how blogs can be used for educational purposes and how to create personal and family blogs. By creating their own site, moms will become well versed on how to integrate multimedia into blog posts and on how blogs can be used to engage children in the reading and writing process. This workshop is offered twice. Participants should select one of the following dates to attend:

• November 24, 2009 (Tuesday), 9am-12pm • December 9, 2009 (Wednesday), 9am-12pm

The Workshops

Developing Young Readers: Strategies and Technology Tools (M03) Teaching a child to read is one of the greatest educational gifts a parent can give a child. Research shows that what children learn before they enter kindergarten is very closely related to how easily they learn to read later on, therefore it is important that parents help their children establish foundational reading skills and positive reading habits early on. In this workshop, mothers of young children will:

• Learn research on the importance of reading with children during their nursery years. • Practice tips and tricks for developing reading skills and positive reading experiences with young children both on and

offline. • Discover resources on the Internet that parents and caregivers can use with young children to develop literacy skills

and a love of reading. This workshop is offered twice. Participants should select one of the following dates to attend:

• November 25, 2009 (Wednesday), 9am-12pm • December 13, 2009 (Sunday), 9am-12pm

Digital Literacy and Cyber Safety: What Kids and Parents Need to Know (M04) In an age when new technologies are born by the second and children are spending more and more time online, it is critical that they and you know how to interact safely, meaningfully and productively online. In this workshop moms will:

• Learn international standards and best practices around what children should know and be able to do online. • Discuss cyber safety tips for children and adults. • Learn how to gauge the credibility of websites. • Discover resources aimed at helping children and adults build digital literacy skills.

This workshop is offered twice. Participants should select one of the following dates to attend:

• December 8, 2009 (Tuesday), 9am-12pm • December 16, 2009 (Wednesday), 9am-12pm

The Workshops

Contact: Tel: +971 50 467 8837 Email: anna@boneducation.com Website: www.boneducation.com Location:

• Magrudy’s Education Resource Center (Jumeira 1) Registration:

• Visit www.boneducation.com/mom-20 • Or email name, mobile, workshop titles and requested dates to info@boneducation.com • Or call +971 50 467 8837

Cost:

• 300 AED (online advance payment), 350 AED (at the door). About the Presenter: Anna Batchelder is CEO and Founder of Bon Education, with experience leading education professional development, product development and online community initiatives for leading academic institutions and companies including the UAE Ministry of Education, the International Society for Technology in Education, Wireless Generation, SchoolNet, Columbia University, Kaplan and ECC Foreign Language Institute (Japan). Anna has hosted numerous workshops on how to incorporate technology tools into the classroom across the Middle East, North America and Caribbean. She is author of the blog Literacy is Priceless and is an international consultant for Curriki—a non-profit that provides free educational resource to schools around the world. Anna holds an MA in Comparative and International Education from Columbia University, Teachers College, where she also received a certificate from the Teachers College Institute on the Teaching of Reading. She is a former English teacher.

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