Real-World Tips For Families From The Digital Sanity Summit | Avast

Real-World Tips For Families From The Digital Sanity Summit | Avast
Leena Elias, 30 March 2020

As we adapt our homes, our schedules and our networks, we’ll need to figure out how tech fits into our lifestyles through the COVID-19 crisis and beyond.



In recent weeks the conversation society’s been having about the role tech plays in our lives has changed dramatically. 
The current global crisis has driven us indoors – concentrating much of our work, learning, family time and socialization under one roof. Technology is in the middle of all of these activities. It’s helping us connect in new ways, but it’s also opening us up to more security breaches and threatening to turn us all into screen zombies. 
To stay sane and keep our families safe in today’s new normal, we’re going to have to keep the conversation going about how to best use tech in productive ways.  As we adapt our homes, our schedules and our networks, we’ll need to figure out how tech fits into our lifestyles through the Covid-19 crisis and beyond.
To address this need, we will be providing practical tips, strategies, and insights in a three-part blog series surrounding topics presented at this week’s Digital Sanity Summit. The Digital Sanity Summit is a free online event aimed at navigating technology in the modern world of parenting.
Here in our first installment, we will be exploring five steps to extend the conversation about using technology in safe and productive ways:    
Start with the hardware basics 
Now that kids are expected to use their digital devices as their primary learning tools, it’s important that they have access to a device that ..

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