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Practical Conversations in a Smartphone World

If your parents didn’t teach you the facts of life, do you feel prepared to guide your kids in our overtly sexualized world? Today, kids are exposed early to pornography (think 8 to 11 years old). This session will arm you with tools and conversation starters that will help you empower your kids to not only look away from sexualized media, but also to confront our sex-obsessed culture. Trained kids make smarter decisions online.

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Living in a Media World

When you sit in the same room as a family how long does it take till someone is on phone or computer? Today it is no doubt that there are so many things beckoning for our attention. What effects does this have on our children or grandchildren? Media dictates not only how we dress, our music, and what we want to do in life, but now the media world determines your social life, your privacy, addictions, how you learn, communicate, and shop. In fact, to some degree it controls the actual time in your life! We are no longer fighting a materialistic world, we are fighting a medialistic world. The first step is to acknowledge the problem. By acknowledging the problem we can then see how it is effecting our own lives individually and also our family. In our culture today we have to face the media. Please join us to discuss some of the impact media is having on the generations and propose some ways to approach this together as a family.

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News Content in the Homeschooling Environment

Does consistent exposure to news content improve the homeschooling environment? Do homeschoolers need regular media access? Today’s world inundates us with information on a daily basis. Social media, television, radio, and podcasts bombard the mind with as many as a thousand unique messages per day. How do we filter these messages, analyze their content, and evaluate their significance?

At each developmental stage, a student’s brain processes information in new ways, creating contexts that guide current and future decision-making. These critical cognitive abilities are vital to your homeschooler’s personal and professional success. This session demonstrates the value of strategic media access at each age level of the homeschooling experience. Jonathan will offer tools for the integration of news content into the daily homeschooling experience that will increase the student’s critical and communicative abilities and facilitate opportunities for influence.

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Connected Teens, Connected Families

The Bible calls Christians to RESIST evil. But Scripture also calls us to be God’s hands and feet in His great work of REDEEMING and RESTORING creation. This presentation includes real life examples of Christians actively engaged in redemptive work in media today ??? along with practical tips about how we can ???go and do likewise.???

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Connecting With the Grandkids in the Digital Age

Homeschooling is an amazing adventure???the journey of a lifetime. There are unique challenges, opportunities, and experiences. Getting our priorities straight will not only honor God, but it will also enhance the educational process.

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Director Breakdown (Script to Edit)

Teaching the ABC’s may have been natural for you. Now that your child knows them, what comes next? What skills are needed to build a solid foundation in reading? We’ll explore those together.

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Guiding our Kids through Social Media 101

This seminar will share how families all over the country are learning to hide God’s Word in their heart! Mega Verses includes 48 passages of scripture put to music covering 25 verses that every family should know. If your looking for a great resource and ideas on how to start your family memorizing chunks of scripture, then you need to check out Mega Verses.

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Teaching with Tech

Wonderful session describing how to successfully use technology in your homeschool environment. This session will explain a balance of what is needed between books and technology needed for your homeschool family. Listen Now

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Not Just Screen Time

Guidelines for technology and children. How do we use technology in an intentional way? How do parents allow their children to benefit from their positives but protect from the negative? Listen Now

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Parenting the Digital Generation: Timeless principles in the twenty-first century

Dennis teaches six easy-to-understand differences between the courtship approach and the dating approach to relationships to help any family apply the older ways in a modern era.

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Releasing Your Child from the Grips of Entertainment

Entertainment and technology has taken our children captive. Technology is just a tool to be used in a positive way. Technology empowers you to educate your child at a different level but it can also entrap you to be lazy and uncreative. Listen Now

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Shining Armor: Your Son’s Battle for Purity

In a time when over 90% of boys have been exposed to pornography before they leave home, how can we teach them to keep their way pure? How can we help them walk in innocence when temptation lurks on a friend’s phone and beckons just a click away? Hal and Melanie offer frank and practical advice for teaching sons from toddlers to adulthood about God’s gift and Satan’s traps in the realm of sexuality. (Material is appropriate for ages 12 and up – parent discretion suggested!)

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Filmmaking as a Career for the Young Entrepreneur

What is a lesser known path and better path to pursue film-making as a young entrepreneur? This session will address how to best follow this dream of film-making. Listen Now

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Connected Teens, Connected Families

Parents and Teens learn together in this session. Leah will discuss the most popular social media platforms available for teens. She’ll cover basic social media principals for teens and their families as well as go over how to set up and use a variety of social media platforms. She’ll also cover safety issues. This is a fun and engaging session for the family!

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Twenty-First Century Homeschooling

Welcome to the digital age. What does the future of education look like, and how can the homeschool community take advantage of this? Here’s a look at free tools and free content sites online that can make your homeschool more efficient, more economical, and more powerful. Harness the educational advantage of online learning and give your kids a jumpstart on their future. Debra Bell explains how Web 2.0 applications are changing the definition of education. Blogs, wikis, Google applications, Skype, VoiceThreads, open courseware, YouTube, Facebook and even Twitter—when used appropriately—can really help kids learn.

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Computer Science and Programming for Kids and Teens – The Easy Way

Have your children asked you about learning computer programming but you haven’t found a family-safe Christian computer programming curriculum? Look no more! Join us for this enlightening session on learning computer programming at home, the easy way, using math, physics, and fun computer Bible games. Today, more than ever, students need to learn technology skills to prepare them for college or compete in this tech savvy world. Philip will demonstrate how easy it is for students to develop their own computer applications and computer Bible games using his award-winning self-study computer programming currciulum.

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