Mobile Learning Mindset: The Parent’s Guide to Supporting Digital Age Learners

Mobile Learning Mindset: The Parent’s Guide to Supporting Digital Age Learners offers guidance for parents facing the challenges that accompany mobile devices, including concerns about screen time, cyberbullying and digital footprints.

The six-book Mobile Learning Mindset series shares practical knowledge and strategies for successful implementation of K-12 BYOD programs and 1:1 initiatives. The collection provides district leaders, principals, teachers, IT staff, educational coaches and parents with the information they need to make any mobile learning program a success.

This book provides advice, tools and scenarios that parents can use with their children to:

• Maintain digital wellness.
• Use social media safely and respectfully.
• Establish household guidelines.

This fifth book in the series focuses on educating parents on the ins and outs of having mobile devices in the home. Addressing concerns about social media and more, this book serves as an instruction manual of sorts for parents raising kids in the digital age.

Audience: K-12 parents

Carl Hooker has been part of a strong educational shift with technology integration in schools since 1998. His unique blend of educational background, technical expertise, and humor make him a driving force for this change. As director of innovation and digital learning at Eanes ISD in Texas, he helped spearhead a mobile learning program that put iPads in the hands of all 8,000 students across the district. He is also the founder of “iPadpalooza” (http://ipadpalooza.com), a three-day learning festival in celebration of the shift iPads have brought about in education and beyond. Hooker was named Tech & Learning Magazine’s 2014 Leader of the Year and he is a member of the Apple Distinguished Educator class of 2013.