Empowering Families: Navigating Cybersecurity and Online Safety
Empowering Families: Navigating Cybersecurity and Online Safety
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Working together, schools and families can prepare kids to think critically and use technology in positive, creative, and powerful ways.
Bellville ISD encourages parents to visit CommonSenseMedia.org, where you can find research-backed resources covering a range of topics -- from online safety and cyberbullying to media balance and learning with technology.
Bellville ISD encourages parents to visit CommonSenseMedia.org, where you can find research-backed resources covering a range of topics -- from online safety and cyberbullying to media balance and learning with technology.
To help support parents, care giversrs, and young people with additional learning needs, Internet Matters has created this hub to offer tailored advice on how to connect safely online across a range of social platforms.
Use the resources in PBS's Technological Literacy to encourage students to develop their own questions that they can explore. Additional topics include digital citizenship, differences between the natural and human-made world, and digital leadership.
Google's Be Internet Awesome teaches kids the fundamentals of digital citizenship and safety so they can explore the online world with confidence.
Connect Safely offers a growing collection of clearly written guidebooks that demystify apps, services and platforms popular with kids and teens.
Topics To Discuss With Your Family
Topics To Discuss With Your Family
Cyberbullying
Cyberbullying
Cyberbullying is bullying that takes place over digital devices like cell phones, computers, and tablets. Cyberbullying can occur through SMS, Text, and apps, or online in social media, forums, or gaming, where people can view, participate in, or share content. Cyberbullying includes sending, posting, or sharing negative, harmful, false, or mean content about someone else. It can include sharing personal or private information about someone else, causing embarrassment or humiliation. Some cyberbullying crosses the line into unlawful or criminal behavior.
Screentime
Screentime
Children of all ages use tablets, phones, computers, and other devices to play games, do homework and watch videos. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), the average child spends seven hours a day in front of screens. That's more than twice the amount of screen time recommended by the AAP.
Phishing
Phishing
Children of all ages use tablets, phones, computers, and other devices to play games, do homework and watch videos. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), the average child spends seven hours a day in front of screens. That's more than twice the amount of screen time recommended by the AAP.
Online Enticement
Online Enticement
Online Enticement involves an individual communicating with someone believed to be a child via the internet with the intent to commit a sexual offense or abduction. This is a broad category of online exploitation and includes sextortion, in which a child is being groomed to take sexually explicit images and/or ultimately meet face-to-face with someone for sexual purposes, or to engage in a sexual conversation online or, in some instances, to sell/trade the child’s sexual images. This type of victimization occurs across every platform: social media, messaging apps, gaming platforms, etc.
Media Literacy
Media Literacy
Media refers to all electronic or digital means and print or artistic visuals used to transmit messages. Literacy is the ability to encode symbols and synthesize and analyze messages. Media literacy is the ability to encode and decode the symbols transmitted via media and synthesize, analyze and produce mediated messages.
“Instead of restricting access, we should educate young people to participate in [the digital world] responsibly, ethically, and safely. Through proper use of social networking sites, students learn social media etiquette and cultivate their digital citizenship.”
WANG ET AL., 2013
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