Helping Teens Learn in an Era of Digital Overload: A Panel Discussion Featuring Experts on Teens and Technology at Orinda Academy on March 20, 2010

ORINDA, Calif., March 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Orinda Academy (OA), a private, non-profit, co-educational day school serving grades 7-12, in conjunction with Student Organizational Services (SOS), will present a panel discussion, Helping Teens Learn in an Era of Digital Overload. The discussion will provide tools for parents to help them negotiate and set parameters for teens' use of technology.

The event will be held at Orinda Academy, 19 Altarinda Road in Orinda, California on Saturday March 20, from 10 am to noon.

Panelists will include Beth Samuelson, MA, Director of SOS, which offers academic coaching and customized study strategies and techniques; Jason Brand, LCSW, who specializes in positive adolescent technology relationships; Rona Renner, RN, parent educator and Childhood Matters radio talk show host; Paul Lipson, former OA music teacher, technology teacher, and video game designer, currently president of the Game Audio Network Guild and the COO and Composer at Pyramind, Inc.; and OA student, Dylan Kimsey-Hutchinson, a digital music composer, Facebook and video game enthusiast and valedictorian for OA class of 2010 who will be attending Carnegie Mellon University in Fall 2010.

Topics covered will include:

• Research on multi-tasking with school work and technology
• Facebook or homework? Tips for parents to help teens manage school and media.
• Texting or sexting?
• Digital media and the adolescent brain
• Video game addiction

The fee for the event is $10. Fore more details and to register, visit http://www.sos4students.com

About Orinda academy

OA prides itself on the overall success of its students who are from various parts of the San Francisco Bay Area. The environment at OA is conducive to student achievement by emphasizing organization, time-management, and self-advocacy. While developing self-esteem and self-reliance, students build upon their successes at OA. Orinda Academy graduates are confident as well as academically and personally prepared for college. Graduates attend top public and private universities including California State and University of California schools. For more information, call 925- 254-7553, or visit http://www.orindaacademy.org

ABOUT STUDENT ORGANIZATIONAL SERVICES

Student Organizational Services (SOS) provides academic coaching, student advocacy, study-space makeovers and hands-on workshops to teens, parents and teachers in the San Francisco Bay Area. The company has helped turn many underachieving, even failing, teenagers into confident, productive students. SOS teaches students how to get on top of work before it gets on top of them. For more information, go to: http://www.sos4students.com

SOURCE Orinda Academy