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Internet Safety Labs Advances Mobile App Safety for K-12 Students, Families and Educators with New App Microscope

eSchool News

SAN DIEGO (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Internet Safety Labs , a non-profit organization dedicated to independent software product safety testing, today announced a big leap forward to help ensure mobile app safety for K-12 students, families and educators with the introduction of the App Microscope.

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How to block websites in K-12 schools

Hapara

Let’s take a look at how to safeguard students and block websites in K-12 schools. Whether students type keywords into a Google search box or enter a URL (uniform resource locator) into the search engine address bar, your web filter should block unwanted content from reaching learners. . Abide by internet safety laws.

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Internet Safety and Information - what data do the big companies collect?

Educational Technology Guy

I'm a huge user and proponent of Google Apps, but I'm also careful with what I put online anywhere. This infographic shows some of the data and information that Google, Facebook and Apple have and collect about their users. It is a good resource to use when teaching digital literacy and internet safety.

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What You Might Have Missed in June–What’s up in July

Ask a Tech Teacher

Here are the most-read posts for the month of June: June is Internet Safety Month 23 SAT/ACT Prep Online Resources What is a Growth Mindset? How to Clean Up Google Classroom for the Summer How to Teach Digital Citizenship in Kindergarten and 1st Grade When is Typing Faster Than Handwriting?

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17 K-8 Digital Citizenship Topics

Ask a Tech Teacher

Students can use Google Earth to take a virtual tour of a zoo or a blog to collaborate on class research. Learning has no temporal or geographic borders, and is available wherever students and teachers find an internet connection. How do you do it, in your school? You can’t have one without the other.

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What You Might Have Missed in May—-What’s up in June

Ask a Tech Teacher

How to Clean Up Google Classroom for the Summer. Internet Safety Month. #CUE22 and Trending Edtech. 12 Tech Tasks To End the School Year. 5 Ways to Involve Parents. 3 Websites on Architecture/Engineering. 13 Websites That Provide Lots of Digital Books for Summer Reading. Kiddom’s Newest Feature–Lesson Launch.

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169 Tech Tip #92 Auto-fill for Internet Addresses

Ask a Tech Teacher

In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education. Category: Internet. What a time saver!