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5 Internet Safety Tips for Teachers

Ask a Tech Teacher

5 Internet Safety Tips for Teachers The internet has provided teachers with numerous tools to enhance their students’ learning experience. They can take over both your personal and work-related accounts, from your emails and social media to online teaching platforms. However, it’s not without a few downsides.

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Is it Time for a Social Media Awareness Class?

Ask a Tech Teacher

Christian Miraglia, Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, has some great ideas on teaching kids about Social Media Awareness: Over the last decade, there has been pressure in the K-12 learning environment to create classes that address everything from managing your money to various efforts to address cultural inequalities.

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Digital Citizenship Resources–Lots of Them

Ask a Tech Teacher

Fake Internet Safety Lesson Plans K-8 Curriculum Be Internet Awesome Common Sense Curriculum Planet Nutshell NetSafe Netiquette Passwords Plagiarism Social Media Texting For a complete Digital Citizenship curriculum for K-8 with 17 topics. 46 lessons. 46 projects.

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How students can safely search the internet

Hapara

Many of us remember heading to the library to gather books and printed articles for our school projects. The internet gives them countless options, but without safeguards in place, there are risks as they search online. Let’s take a look at how students can safely search the internet. Cyberbullying. Distracting websites.

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Should we radically change the way we teach digital citizenship?

Neo LMS

The internet is dangerous!” can backfire because children and teens are naturally curious and will try some things on their own, such as signing up for social media accounts way below the minimum age requirement. They can also become journalists by writing articles or creating videos. This method of “Beware!

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5 Ways to Teach Digital Citizenship (and the 9 Key P’s of Digital Citizenship)

The CoolCatTeacher

I wrote about these in Reinventing Writing and in other articles. Stop, Screenshot, Block, Tell and Share – Free Internet Safety Poster. Safely Involve Students in Social Media and More Student Voice Tips. Free Digital Citizenship Webinar Recording] 9 Key P’s of Digital Citizenship.

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Safer Internet Day: Can Social Media Companies be Trusted?

techlearning

As it's Safer Internet Day, perhaps it's apposite to ask this question: can the social media companies be trusted? Terry Freedman is an independent ed tech consultant and freelance writer based in London, England.