Below you can see digital safety, citizenship and learning tips for parents.
Esafety tips booklet created by kids
Being safe online and behaving with respect is something integrated in any etwinning project fifth or sixth graders of our school are engaged in every year. You can read the following booklet two classes of sixth graders have created in collaboration with our partners from Italy and Poland.
Kids often have to resort to the Interent to search for information. However, search engines may come up with unwanted results, such as sites full of ads or even inappropriate content. The best way to protect them from such pitfalls is to encourage them to search through kids-friendly search engines. Some safe kids' engines are:
https://www.juniorsafesearch.com/
https://www.safesearch.tips/ (Thanks to Alan)
Get your kids watch YouTube Videos without distractions
It is annoying and sometimes unsafe to get our kids watch a video with all the distractions constantly appearing.
A clever way to get your kids view a clean version of a youtube video is by inserting the video url in one of the sites below. These sites generate a new url for your kids to watch favorite youtube videos without any disturbances.
https://safeshare.tv/ (also for vimeo videos)
QuietTube bookmark
Check out Chrome extensions which serve the same purpose. One of them 👉🏼
DF YouTube (Distraction Free)- Chrome extension.
Finally, a really informative guide on how to keep kids safe on youtube is that by Tim Mocan. You can read it HERE. (Thank you, Olivia T., a reader of this weebly and a parent, who kindly shared this resource in one of her comments.)
Extra tip: Add a hyphen '-' after 't' in he word 'youtube' in the url of a video in the address bar to avoid adds and cookies. Click on 'Enter'. See the difference in the examples below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jn7uAsLWXpk&list=RDJn7uAsLWXpk&start_radio=1👉🏼
https://www.yout-ube.com/watch?v=Jn7uAsLWXpk&list=RDJn7uAsLWXpk&start_radio=1