Technology Tenets: Building School-Family Collaboration

Technology offers a new set of challenges for Montessori educators, as there are concerns of how freedom within limits can best be applied to technology use and how boundaries can be set for safety while not extinguishing children's natural curiosity. For students to have a comprehensive and meaningful understanding of technology and its benefits and limitations, it's important for a school to have a transparent and meaningful technology policy in place for faculty and staff and for school-family collaboration to take place. A list of talking points that can be offered to the families at the school to help them start conversations at home are provided.