MLTI Announces Partnership with Common Sense Media

April 23, 2009

A new partnership will provide parents with the information they need to help their kids make safe and smart decisions about how they use the Internet, mobile phones, social networking sites, TV, and other digital media.

The partnership announced Thursday by the Maine Department of Education and Common Sense Media will work with parent-teacher groups to pilot the program, which helps parents understand the technology children are using.

“This is about far more than just internet safety,” said Maine Education Commissioner Susan A. Gendron. “This partnership offers us the best opportunity to engage parents even more deeply in our technology programs and to provide them with important information about the ever-changing digital media issues that kids experience every day. Common Sense Media’s expertise in helping parents manage the 24/7 media lives that kids live in today makes them the perfect partner for us.”