GuardianGamer's mission is to show children how to navigate the online gaming world safely. We provide a pair of eyes and mentorship on behalf of parents/legal guardians. Our Guardians provide oversight for your children and keep them safe in a number of ways: We monitor your childrens’ online interactions, encourage them to develop healthy, self-regulating habits, model behaviors and support their gaming skills, attitudes and behaviors that contribute to their development as socially responsible gamers.
GuardianGamer : Level up Your Parenting in A Gaming World!
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GuardianGamer's mission is to show children how to navigate the online gaming world safely. We provide a pair of eyes and mentorship on behalf of parents/legal guardians. Our Guardians provide oversight for your children and keep them safe in a number of ways: We monitor your childrens’ online interactions, encourage them to develop healthy, self-regulating habits, model behaviors and support their gaming skills, attitudes and behaviors that contribute to their development as socially responsible gamers.
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November 22, 2022
Episode 5 : How Gaming Shapes Modern Parenting: An interview with Lorrie, parent of a 7th Grader.
<p>The GuardianGamer Podcast</p> <p>Episode 5: How Gaming Shapes Modern Parenting: An interview with Lorrie, parent of a 7th Grader.</p> <p>Producer: Sarah Lai Stirland</p> <p>Engineer: Gabe Grabin</p> <p>On the GuardianGamer platform we prioritize the parent first, because of their lack of solutions to increase their engagement and need for more visibility. Recent research by FOSI shows that parents in the US monitor their kids' online <a href="https://global-uploads.webflow.com/5f4dd3623430990e705ccbba/636d140fda5a95f9aa4bb3bf_MAKING%20SENSE%20OF%20AGE%20ASSURANCE%20FULL%20REPORT%20-%20FOSI%202022_compressed.pdf" target="_blank"><u>activities for 11 hours per week alread</u></a><a href="https://global-uploads.webflow.com/5f4dd3623430990e705ccbba/636d140fda5a95f9aa4bb3bf_MAKING%20SENSE%20OF%20AGE%20ASSURANCE%20FULL%20REPORT%20-%20FOSI%202022_compressed.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>y.</u></a> When our Founder Heidi herself was looking for a solution in the market when her son was starting to game more, her family couldn't find solutions beyond surveillance. She wanted to guide and help her son sometimes but the systems they already had in place to limit online time, could not provide me with any insight into what was going on in the games. Her family then started to invest time experiencing the parent journey from being reluctant to becoming a game positive parent. We talked a lot about the gaming. Since she is an engineer, and built platforms and technology for a variety of complex problems in my other companies, she was and still am determined to design and build the right tools to help other families.</p> <p>INTRO: You’re listening to the GuardianGamer podcast. GuardianGamer is a new service that offers kids the age of seven and up mentorship and a safe space to play video games.</p> <p>I’m Sarah Lai Stirland. I’m a co-host of this podcast. We’ve talked a lot about what happens within online video games in past episodes. But what about how games affect kids and families in the quote-unquote offline world?</p> <p>That’s what we explore in this episode. I’m talking with Lorrie this week. She’s the mother of a 7th grade boy who loves playing Fortnite and Minecraft.</p> <p>Video games were affecting Lorrie’s son starting around Fifth Grade — even when he wasn’t playing them.</p> <p>As you’ll hear, her son wasn’t allowed to play Fortnite back then. But after he complained that he felt left out at school because everyone else was playing, Lorrie relented.</p> <p>Then the pandemic hit. As for many of us, games became the safe place for her son to carry on his social life.</p> <p>As parents, we all worry about the impact of video games on our kids’ health. That’s why we thought it would be great to kick off a conversation about the subject with Lorrie, a parent of a son who has an avid interest in video games.</p> <p>Lorrie talks about how she manages manages that interest. She also talks about how gaming has affected his perception of the world.</p> <p>We thought it would be interesting for parents to compare notes.</p> <p>SARAH: So Laurie Tell, tell our listeners a bit about yourself.</p> <p><br></p>
August 5, 2022
Episode 4: What games can teach
<figure>... or what you can learn from Red Dead Redemption.</figure> <h2>Q&A with Dr. Karen (Kat) Schrier, Associate Professor/Director of Games and Emerging Media, Marist College on her book "<a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/we-the-gamers-9780190926113?cc=us&lang=en&" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">We The Gamers</a>.”</h2> <p>Schrier talked to GuardianGamer about why she thinks games like Fortnite and Red Dead Redemption can be useful teaching tools.</p> <p><a href="https://www.marist.edu/communication-arts/faculty/karen-schrier"><strong>Dr. Karen Schrier</strong></a><strong> </strong>is an associate professor and founding director of the <a href="https://www.marist.edu/communication-arts/film-tv-games-media/games-media">Games & Emerging Media program</a> at Marist College. She is also the director of the <a href="http://www.playinnovationlab.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Play Innovation Lab</a>. For the 2018-2019 year, she worked on a project related to games, empathy, and bias reduction as a <a href="https://www.adl.org/news/press-releases/adls-center-for-technology-and-society-announces-first-class-of-belfer-fellows" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Belfer Fellow with the ADL’s Center for Technology & Society</a>.</p> <p>Before becoming a professor at Marist, she spent over a decade producing websites, apps, and games at places such as <a href="https://www.scholastic.com/home">Scholastic</a>, <a href="https://www.nick.com/">Nickelodeon</a>, and <a href="https://www.brainpop.com/">BrainPOP</a>.</p> <p>Schrier has written over 40 publications, is the editor of the book series <a href="http://press.etc.cmu.edu/index.php/product/learning-education-and-games-volume-one-curricular-and-design-considerations/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Learning, Education & Games</a>, published by ETC Press (Carnegie Mellon), co-author of a UNESCO whitepaper on empathy and games, and co-editor of two books on games and ethics.</p> <p>She has co-created digital properties such as <a href="http://awesomeupstander.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Awesome Upstander</a>, an anti-bullying mobile game, and the Daytime Emmy-nominated <a href="https://www.mission-us.org/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Mission US: For Crown or Colony?</a> She holds a doctorate from Columbia University, master’s degree from MIT, and a bachelor’s degree from Amherst College.</p> <p>Her new book, "<a href="https://www.amazon.com/We-Gamers-Games-Ethics-Civics/dp/0190926112/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=we+the+gamers&qid=1632278575&sr=8-1">We the Gamers</a>," shows teachers and parents -- or anyone else-- how they can use video games to teach ethics and civics. The book provides lesson outlines, tips, case studies, and design toolkits.</p> <p><strong>Production notes:</strong> This episode was produced by <a href="https://sarahstirland.com/"><strong>Sarah Lai Stirland</strong></a><strong> </strong>and engineered by <a href="https://www.kalw.org/people/gabe-grabin"><strong>Gabe Grabin</strong></a><strong>.</strong></p> <ul> <li>The Joan Ganz Cooney Center Teaching with Games Video Case Studies are <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA3C69D48D4FFE87E">here</a>.</li> </ul>
October 8, 2021
Episode 3: An introduction to the Guardians
<p>Listeners meet GuardianGamers Alex Cridlig, Coen Poelmann, Ian Cory. They learn about the different kinds of Guardians they can hire.</p> <p>Production notes: This episode was written and produced by Sarah Lai Stirland and engineered by Gabe Grabin. Music: The Fortnite Song (Lucas Fader Dubstep Remix.) Lucas Fader: <a href="https://soundcloud.com/lucas-fader">https://soundcloud.com/lucas-fader</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/LucasFaderOfficial">https://www.youtube.com/user/LucasFaderOfficial</a>, Distância, The View, by Pyrosion, <a href="https://soundcloud.com/pyrosion">https://soundcloud.com/pyrosion</a>, Constantinople, by Vendredi, <a href="https://soundcloud.com/yt-audio-library/constantinople-vendredi-audio-library-release-free-copyright-safe-music">https://soundcloud.com/yt-audio-library/constantinople-vendredi-audio-library-release-free-copyright-safe-music</a>, Sneaking, by jiglr, <a href="https://soundcloud.com/jiglrmusic/sneaking">https://soundcloud.com/jiglrmusic/sneaking</a> and Cloudy, by KODOMOi, <a href="https://soundcloud.com/kodomoimusic/kodomoi-cloudy">https://soundcloud.com/kodomoimusic/kodomoi-cloudy</a></p> <p><br></p>
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