Youth and Technology

Everything and everyone is about technology today; technology is everywhere we go, we can not escape it. Grade school are even starting to integrate technology into the classroom.
My children are all in their first year in a newly built school, this school offers smart boards for teachers and students to use, motion censored lighting, wifi throughout the school and temperature censored classrooms. Children are more aware of technology today then their parents were as children, but it's mainly because technology is increasing more everyday and they will have to be actively involved with it and learn to adapt technology into their everyday lives.

http://www.covington.k12.va.us/JWIS/index.htm
http://www.covington.k12.va.us/Edgemont/index.htm

Talking to your child about technology is like having the sex talk. Except kids are helping to write the rules.
Pages: 100 Texts a Day The Birds and the Bees The Cell Phone Question Getting on Their Level Laying Down the Law To Monitor Or Not to Monitor? Parenting, Not Policing
on November 23, 2009
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According to Nielsen Mobile, that’s how many text messages the average 13- to 17-year-old sends per day, adding up to about 2,900 per month. For families without unlimited data plans, that could be enough to get a kid grounded. And even if you do have an unlimited plan, you have to wonder how much of that time should be spent doing homework—or how many of those messages may contain inappropriate content.
And yet, blocking such technology as text messaging, or YouTube seems unrealistic—cruel, even—if only because that’s the stuff children’s friendships are made of. What limits, then, can a parent set? And how do you go about enforcing them? To get some answers, we asked a handful of parenting experts to weigh in on age-appropriate guidelines for everything from Web surfing to cell phones and parental controls. Spoiler alert: They don’t always agree.