Children and Internet Safety
Basic Guidelines for Best Practice with children There is no substitute for COMMUNICATION. Don't say things like "Susie knows more about computers than I do...." Never give out PRIVATE Information on the web. Establish clear RULES while students are on the computer/internet. Do what teachers do --- Write a contract and have ALL users sign it. Location, Location, Location. Keep all computers where screens are very public!. No Peer2Peer, NewsGroups, Usenet, CHAT, No Instant Messaging, No Face Book, No MySpace. Social networking sites may not be appropriate for K-4. Use your on-line provider's special security controls. For example Comcast has a parental control panel. Use these controls. Sites that will help me and my kids! What about cell phones? Many now offer photograph options and texting -- so I would be very careful. Twitter?! What's that about? Sites we use at school with your children to teach them basic technology vocabulary and skills. These are the sites that we use with students to earn their Internet Driver's License! Before children are allowed on the Internet they must pass a certain level of proficiency. Here are the sites that we use to learn about the Internet. Lesson 1, Before you do Lesson 2 explore this website so that you have basic information well in hand. Privacy Playground is an acclaimed site out of Canada that has a fun way teaching kids. The Three CyberPigs, (just click on it to start the game) help young kids get the idea about privacy on the Internet! Cybersence and Nonesense is appropriate for precocious kids or kids from 4th grade up.!
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| Wired Kids helps kids learn about safety, get advice or report "bad" sites. | Stay Safe helps you be net savvy! Especially about Internet safety.
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| KidSafetyfrom the University of Oklahoma Other Safety issues as well GREAT!! | |
| Looney Toons takes you to the Internet! Fun site to reinforce learning. | CyberTipLine lists the dangers of many things clearly. Social Networking in particular |
| Evaluate wheather a site is good. Helps kids use critical thinking skills to decide if the site is good or not. | SafeKids is written in easy language by a syndicated author on the subject of Net Safety |
| Nettiquette Rules for Happy Surfing WHY YOU SHOULD NEVER USE ALL CAPS!! AND other important rules of communicating online! | Infomration Literacy and Media Literacy A brief explanation with links . |
NetSmarts411 answers many of your questions -- |
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OnGuard Online is a Federal Trade Commission site working to protect you. Numbers to report illegal activity can be found at - http://www.ftc.gov/
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Eamples of what some children have created using the Internet!Can you answer some of these questions? No? and these are 2nd-3rd graders!
Using Technology to increase student achievement! This is from the North Central Regional Education Laboratory - a part of the Department of Education one of the treasures that your taxes fund which help all of us regular teachers begin to utilize newer ideas to make education better!