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5 Internet Safety Tips for Teachers

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5 Internet Safety Tips for Teachers The internet has provided teachers with numerous tools to enhance their students’ learning experience. Internet Safety Tips for Teachers Today’s educators can no longer do without technological resources. However, it’s not without a few downsides.

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Sextortion: Your Students Are at Risk, Teachers Can Help

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The time to talk is when they get their smartphone. Today’s Sponsor: Netsmartz Free Teaching Digital Citizenship Course. This free course is designed to help you teach the latest in internet safety and digital citizenship for your students. RIGHT THEN. It is free. It is online. Learn at your own pace.

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10 Technology Skills Every Educator Should Have

Educational Technology Guy

Netiquette Digital Citizenship - Internet/Email/Social Media etiquette - proper way to use the internet, write professional emails, use social media in relation to your job (not complaining about the boss). Educators need to be aware of this for their own protection, and to teach their students these important topics.

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How to Grow Global Digital Citizens

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With the rise of online games, web-based education, and smartphones that access everything from house lights to security systems, it’s not surprising to read these statistics: In 2013, 71 percent of the U.S. population age 3 and over used the Internet. Kids going around safety restrictions. by Lee Watanabe Crockett.

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What a Teacher Can Do About Cyberbullying

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You’ll enjoy her latest article on how to address cyberbullying with your students: Cyberbullying refers to a situation in which a teen, preteen or child is embarrassed, humiliated, harassed, threatened, tormented or otherwise targeted by another on interactive technology such as smartphones or social media. What the Teacher can do.

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How to Set Healthy Screen Time Habits: A Guide for Parents

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Through computers, smartphones, and tablets, we have a wealth of information at our fingertips that can be both entertaining and intellectually stimulating. Today’s children are digital natives, which means that they’ve grown up surrounded by technology from the time they were born. Sources : Sigman, A.

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4 Great Lesson Plans for Internet Safety

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With kids getting smartphones and other devices at younger and younger ages, it's more important than ever to teach them how to use the internet safely. Though teachers and parents are deeply concerned about kids' online safety, we often don't know the best ways to teach these skills.