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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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How students can safely search the internet

Hapara

For example, this women of science internet activity guides learners to visit websites and search for information. Why internet safety for students is important. The internet contains endless websites, content and ways to communicate. How educators can keep students safe on the internet. Cyberbullying.

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Creating a safe environment for online learning

Neo LMS

From an email address to a social security number, just about any piece of personal information can be used by cybercriminals for malicious means. Even seemingly innocent social media posts can contain clues that hackers can use to guess passwords for other online portals that the students or their parents may use at home.

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Digital Citizenship and Social Media for Students

Buncee

My class was learning about the Sustainable Development Goals , but I noticed as students entered the room they were busy chatting about video games, connecting with people online and talking to each other via a messaging app. I started to think about digital citizenship, internet safety, and just how digitally savvy were my students? .

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129 Digital Citizenship Links on 22 Topics

Ask a Tech Teacher

Tellagami–a video avatar. Copyrights–BrainPop video. Copyright and Fair Use –Common Sense Media video. Copyright Law Explained (fun video, informative, thorough). Videos on licensing, copyrights, more (from Creative Commons). Common Sense media. Bullying—Watch this (videos).

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How to block websites in K-12 schools

Hapara

Abide by internet safety laws. The federal Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA) was enacted in 2000 and requires schools to have an internet safety policy in place to receive E-rate program discounts. The discounts give schools financial assistance for internet connectivity. Another way H?para

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11 Projects to Teach Digital Citizenship

Ask a Tech Teacher

Another fun project is to have them then create an image cube (like the one available on Big Huge Labs ) with six images they drew themselves that represent “Internet safety” These are created in their favorite school drawing program and then uploaded to the Big Huge Labs template. What dangers lurk in each?