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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. Cyber threats, in particular, can expose both educators and learners to new kinds of risks that could endanger their privacy and security. However, it’s not without a few downsides.

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Sextortion: Your Students Are at Risk, Teachers Can Help

The CoolCatTeacher

Get Netsmartz, the free program to help educate teachers, parents and students. Educate yourself. The time to talk is when they get their smartphone. This free course is designed to help you teach the latest in internet safety and digital citizenship for your students. So, I recorded a show. Talk to kids.

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Mozilla Foundation announces some new, free educational resources

Educational Technology Guy

Webmaker Beta is a free, open source Android app that allows smartphone users of any skill level to create original content online. This year, from July 15 - 31, educators and students can use their curriculum and teach others how to read, write and participate online. This post originally appeared on Educational Technology Guy.

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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

Waterford

Through computers, smartphones, and tablets, we have a wealth of information at our fingertips that can be both entertaining and intellectually stimulating. When your child is playing an educational video game or video chatting with a relative, for example, that is active screen time. Sources : Sigman, A.

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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. A good place to start an Internet education is: There are rules.

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A safer Internet?

Learning with 'e's

Today is Internet Safety Day , when we celebrate good and appropriate uses of the Web, and share good advice on how to protect vulnerable users from those out there who would seek to harm them. The BBC''s Webwise site also has some great resources on Internet safety. Unported License.