Supplemental policy language: Screen time
Restrictions on which websites can be accessed by children.
Example 1:
Our program uses a pop-up blocker to minimize advertisements to children during computer time. Only educational websites with no advertising are allowed to be visited by children during program time.
Practice implications: This policy will require a program to limit the websites accessed by children, either through staff supervision of children’s computer time or by working with system administrators to use pop-up blockers or to block certain websites from children’s use during program time.
Example 2:
Computer time is used only for educational games and homework. Internet access is prohibited during program hours.
Practice implications: This policy takes a simpler but more extreme approach by simply blocking the internet from children’s use during program hours.
