In this episode, we speak with Matthew Johnson the director of education at Media Smarts about the role of parents in enhancing educational opportunities from home and navigating the challenges of chatbots, deep fakes, and GenAI content with their children.

Matthew Johnson is the Director of Education for MediaSmarts, Canada’s centre for digital media literacy. He is the architect of Access, Use, Understand, Enage: Digital Media Literacy Framework for Canadian K-12 Schools and the author of many of MediaSmarts’ parent, youth and classroom resources including Break the Fake, which returned the beloved house hippo to Canadian screens. He is a member of the Canadian Pediatric Society's Digital Health Task Force and has served as on expert panels convened by the Sex Information & Education Council of Canada and the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario’s Strategic Priorities Advisory Committee, among others.

Web resources mentioned in the show:

• TOSDR
• KidsHelpPhone
• Wellbeing at WCDSB
• https://tineye.com/ 
• Media Smarts Resources: Tip Sheet, Break the Fake Program, There's No Excuse (focus on sexting), Workshop 
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