As
many of us are meeting parents and passing out the Acceptable Use
Policy for parents and students to sign, this provides the perfect
opportunity to remind parents that they too must educate their children
about the responsibilities and dangers of the internet.
Here are a few basic tips:
- Keep computer in a central place where you can monitor what children are doing online
- Talk with kids about which websites they are allowed to go to, then check the browser history in the computer's web browser menu to see which website have been visited.
- Teach kids not to share their or their friends' personal information and never to arrange to meet people they "meet" online.This video is a chilling example on how this can easily happen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZHq4CQekTY
- Teach kids not share their passwords and to never check "Remember me on this computer" on public computers.
- Cyberbullying can be devastating. Teach kids not to e-mail, post, or IM things they wouldn't say to a person, and if they are the target, tell them to leave it on the screen and contact a responsible adult immediately.
Google
has partnered with a number of organizations to develop resources for
adults to use to help keep kids safe. Some of these can be found at:
http://www.google.com/intl/en/landing/familysafety/
http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2008/08/now-playing-on-youtube-online-family.html
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/03/common-sense-approach-to-internet.html
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