What is Resilient Families?
Resilient Families is a media literacy education tool – helping children and parents thrive in the digital age.
It includes video courses/lessons for parents and children to explore online risks and the skills and confidence that can help you to respond.
What does the Resilient Families programme cover?
The programme takes a resilience-based approach to online safety, explaining how to understand your digital world and know what to do if there is a problem.
It covers many types of online risks and harms – with a focus on disinformation – helps you learn from online experiences and develop processes to recover if something goes wrong.
Is it an online safety programme?
Yes – and no.
It takes a resilience-based approach to life online – explaining how to understand your digital world and know what to do if there is a problem. It helps you learn from online experiences and develop processes to recover if something goes wrong.
It is about helping children, young people and families make the most of their digital opportunities, while also helping to promote and develop Online Media Literacy.
What is Online Media Literacy?
Online Media Literacy are the processes we use to understand and analyse online spaces – and they ways we use this understanding to guide our actions and behaviours, including:
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how our data is used, and how to protect our privacy.
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different types of online risks and how to assess them.
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assessing information sources and understanding how content is generated online.
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understanding consequences of our actions online, and how to be positive digital citizens.
What do I get with the Resilient Families programme?
Subscribers have access to a range of video and PDF resources that can help you to engage parents around online risks and help them nurture their child’s digital resilience.
Who created Resilient Families?
Resilient Families was created by Parent Zone and supports the UKCIS Digital Resilience framework and the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) Media Literacy Strategy.
Who is Parent Zone?
Parent Zone is an organisation that sits at the heart of digital family life. Its work helps families navigate the challenges of the digital age – providing support and information to parents, children, schools, local authorities and family professionals.
Parent Zone has been at the forefront of the thinking around digital resilience – and in 2014 collaborated with the Oxford Internet Institute to examine the important area of building children’s online resilience.
What is the Digital Resilience framework?
The Digital Resilience framework was developed by the UK Council for Internet Safety (UKCIS).
It is a framework and tool for organisations, policymakers, schools and companies to use to embed digital resilience thinking into products, education and services.
What is the Media Literacy strategy?
The Media Literacy strategy is an initiative by the government’s Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS).
It aims to coordinate media literacy education and empower users to make safer decisions online. Resilient Families is listed as a resource to support digital parenting.
Using the programme
How much does the Resilient Families programme cost?
It costs £200 for 12 months access to resources.
How do I subscribe?
Complete your purchase on the Resilient Families page – including creating a Parent Zone account. You will then be able to access the programme and resources on the Parent Zone website.
OK, so if I subscribe, where can I find my Resilient Families resources?
The training videos are all embedded on the Resilient Families page of the Parent Zone website.
If you are the account manager for your school/organisation, you will be able to download and share all supporting resources to accompany the video course.
Where can I use Resilient Families resources?
All resources are copyrighted and subject to the programme’s Terms and Conditions.
Under your terms of use, the course is available for you and colleagues to use in your school/organisation – and with all parents and children your school/organisation supports.
They are not to be shared with other professionals outside of your school/organisation.
If you are unsure, please contact resilientfamilies@parentzone.org.uk
Can I download the video course?
No, the course is not available as a download.
But there are (unlisted) YouTube video versions of the courses that you can stream or share with parents and children – depending on how you wish to deliver training. These are listed in your user guide.
Can I embed the course on my organisation website?
Yes, you can find an embed code for each video course on the YouTube page. Embedding videos is restricted to your school’s / organisation’s own web page, under your terms of use.
How can I get extra support in delivering Resilient Families resources?
You can email resilientfamilies@parentzone.org.uk
What other Parent Zone resources are there?
The Screen Wise programme offers a complete organisation approach to digital resilience – including CPD-accredited training . You can find more Parent Zone products and resources here.
Teaching the programme
Resilient Families has courses for parents and children. These complement each other, so the learning a child does in school can be supported by sharing the parent course.
The courses are designed to be:
Adaptable
Working in whichever setting you need, from classrooms to front rooms, remote learning platforms or video conference calls.
Easy to deliver
The courses can be self-guided by parents and older children. Share the video links and activities and the videos will guide them through.
Interactive
Use pause points throughout the courses to complete activities or spark discussions. These are outlined in your user guide.
Complimentary
The courses support a 360° resilience approach for your school or setting. The parent course supports the learning in the child and youth courses.
What does the programme include for primary and secondary ages?
There are two lessons/courses – suitable for children aged 7-10 and children aged 11+.
The primary lesson is called “How to get digital superpowers” and is a fun, fast-paced and interactive course/lesson, discussing how to spot online risks – including disinformation. This lesson is suitable for younger children or those with more limited digital experience and literacy.
The secondary lesson is called “The power of resilience” and features a focus on disinformation, extremism and radicalisation. This is a more challenging course, for children with greater digital skills and awareness.
What do I get to go with the video lessons?
The lessons are supported by lesson plans - guiding you through how to deliver the programme – as well as worksheets.
How would I deliver the lessons?
The classroom lessons can be used face-to-face with groups of children – supported by a lesson plan. A remote version is designed for online learning platforms – with timed pauses to complete short activities. Please note: some children may find it harder to complete this self-guided course. The course is also available in four parts.
What do I get for parents?
A video course exploring how parents can help their children navigate the digital world – including the opportunities and things that can (and will) go wrong.
It covers what digital resilience means, how to develop better communication, understanding their child's online world, how to help their child respond to online risks, and what to do if something goes wrong.
How would I deliver Resilient Families to parents?
The course can be delivered face-to-face – with interactive talking points to help you facilitate discussion.
The course can also be shared in one or four parts – to be watched by parents in their own time.
For any other questions, email: resilientfamilies@parentzone.org.uk