Internet Safety
Be Internet Awesome by Google video
Educating Parents/Families Partners
Family Online Safety Institute- Resources and toolkits for talking to parents and students about digital safety. Schools may request a free presentation to share to help you have positive digital parents.
- Slidedeck to be used with parents
- Presentation Guide - use this to host a session with parents.
- FAQs
- Glossary
- Popular Sites & Apps
- Template communication documents
- Instructional Video
- Digital Footprint PDF
- Family Safety Contract
- 7 Steps to Good Digital Parenting PDF
- 3 Teachable Moments
Family Link (for Android devices)- Create a Google Account for your child that's like your own and lets parents manage apps, keep an eye on screen time and set timers on the device. Public accounts
Connect Safely Guides- Collection of short guidebooks for parents about popular
apps, services, and platforms popular with kids from Connect Safely who host Safer
Internet Day.
Educating Educators
How could educators model good digital citizenship?
Not checking our phone during the day, use school time for school work (not online shopping for example - students can see what tabs you have open in SMARTBoard). Model appropriate communication through emails, chats, feedback, etc. Show our own digital footprint - Google ourselves in class. Practicing appropriate login procedures. Be who you are offline - online.
How Secure Is My Password- Check your password strength and how long it will take for your password to be hacked.
Digital Citizenship & Safety Course for Educators https://edutrainingcenter.withgoogle.com/digital_citizenship/preview- Learn about why we teach digital citizenship and safety, online safety on the go, savvy searching, how to stay safe from phishing and more in this short certification course. From Google!
LEAP Innovations- Within the LEAP personalized learning framework there are samples of contracts to have with students about good digital citizenship and rules to keep them safe online. There are also strategies for being a learner connected.
Educating Students
How are you incorporating digital citizenship in your school/classroom?
I use the website digitalpassport.org once a week for 6th grade - kids love the game based learning and the site is free and very user-friendly. FBI SOS is another free, good resource for grades 3-8.
Trillion Dollar Footprint is a great free lesson from commonsensemedia.org
NOVA Net Cyber Security Lab Game is great for Grades 7+ (You may need to preface some vocab terms)
Be Internet Awesome - Games and curriculum to help teach students to be internet smart, alert, strong, kind and brave! Kids can play their way to being Internet Awesome with Interland, an online adventure that puts the key lessons of digital safety into hands-on practice with four challenging games. Teachers can download the curriculum to use with students.
Common Sense Media- Scope and sequence of digital citizenship resources around:
- Internet Safety
- Privacy & Security
- Relationships & Communication
- Cyberbullying & Digital Drama
- Information Literacy
- Creative Credit & Copyright
- Self-Image & Identity
- Digital Footprints & Reputation
Good resources too, for parents.
Netsmartz- NetSmartz offers free, multimedia Internet safety presentations tailored for specific audiences – parents and communities, tweens, teens, and younger children.
iKeepSafe- iKeepSafe certifies technology used by children and in educational settings with qualified experts. We help vendors meet the complicated and demanding standards of compliance required by federal and state laws, so they can sell their technology with full confidence and protection. iKeepSafe is driven to improve transparency around student data privacy.
Digital Citizenship Week in October… Here is the site with Resources a district in Nebraska used this year!
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3874544/parentalguide?ref_=tt_stry_pg