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Safe Surfing Strategies

Although teachers must protect students from inappropriate material online, it is event more important that they teach students search skills and skills to critically evaluate what they are reading online.




Safe Surfing Resources
These resources are related to children’s safety on the Net and are particularly valuable for parent education, and to help teachers to develop safe-use policies in the classroom.
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  • Ballad of an Email Terrorist
    Al Rogers, 1995
    A teacher's personal account, which relates the steps taken by a school to track down an obscene email message received by one of its fourth grade students. Old, but interesting reading.


  • CyberSmart! Curriculum
    An American K-8 curriculum resource aimed to empower students to use the Internet safely, responsibly and effectively.

  • E-safety
    Becta, UK, 2006
    Highlights the safety issues and provides advice for schools on how to use technology safely.


  • Kidsmart
    Childnet International, UK, 2004
    A practical internet safety program website for schools, young people, parents, and other agencies.

  • Safe and Responsible Use of the Internet
    Nancy Willard, CSRIU, 2002
    Provides guidance to parents, educators, librarians, policy-makers, and others regarding effective, empowerment strategies to assist young people in gaining the knowledge, skills, motivation, and self-control to use the Internet and other information technologies in a safe and responsible manner.

 

Interactive Sites

The CMIS webpage on Cyberbullying includes links to interactive sites that can be used to teach students about online safety.

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