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#DigitalParenting: New App Tracks Children's Phone Use #SID2015

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There’s been a lot of talk about a new app in develop that tracks children everywhere (don’t such things already exist?). I’m not convinced – can be some value if you both agree what/why you’re doing it, but surely, we need to be teaching responsibility to children. Life is not risk-free, and there’s some great opportunities to allow children to fully develop being missed! See a couple of pages from my book:

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By Digital Fingerprint

Digiexplorer (not guru), Senior Lecturer in Digital Marketing @ Manchester Metropolitan University. Interested in digital literacy and digital culture  in the third sector (especially faith). Author of 'Raising Children in a Digital Age', regularly checks hashtag #DigitalParenting.

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