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[|Cyber Cafe] Think U Know Cyber Cafe is a virtual environment where students can practice their online safety smarts. In the cafe, students will help virtual kids make good choices when using email, texting, instant messaging, web browsing, creating an online personal space, and chatting in a chat room. Students are guided through a variety of scenarios where they must help the virtual kids make the right decisions about using the Internet. [|Internet Safety with Professor Garfield.] [|Let's Start Early] The less we work with students on being critically literate online, and the more we avoid social media and networking as an authentic part of the classroom experience, the more danger our students will be in. Educational Origami (Andrew Churches, from Auckland) In Rome, to be a citizen was a level to aspire to. A roman citizen was exempt some taxes, protected against certain punishments, empowered with rights like voting, making contracts, marriage and standing for office. But with these rights also came responsibilities. The citizen of Rome Had to speak Latin, pay taxes, serve jury duty, be registered and identified by birth certificate and census. They also had to up hold social responsibilities and be seen as virtuous. Digital citizenship has similar benefits and responsibilities. A good digital citizen will experience the advantages of the digital world but like the roman citizen will be identifiable, speak using the appropriate language, serve his or her duty to judge what is appropriate within the laws of the land and ethical behavior, uphold their social responsibilities and be virtuous. The internet is a little like the proverbial elephant that never forgets. Our digital footprints are not like the footprints on the beach, washed away by the next wave or rising tide. Rather they are like footprints left to dry in the wet concrete of the footpath. Permanent. [|Also from Andrew] and also t[|his article about Cellphones.] Digital Citizenship & Cyber Safety This wiki was set up for an onlline interactive workshop which has now finished. However there is a lot of valuable content here. [|Zoodles Kid's Browser]. Our goal is to give kids a safe place to play and learn online. We knew that we couldn’t just give kids a typical browser and send them off to explore. Most sites today are way too complicated for young kids to navigate on their own, and they don’t provide enough safety from all the bad stuff lurking on the web. So, we started from scratch. We built a FREE browser, especially for kids, that makes it simple for them to find lots of fun activities – all by themselves. By launching the icon on your desktop, your child will enter a full-screen mode of Zoodles that will keep them from exiting out and finding inappropriate content or accidentally deleting your important files.

Safe Strategies for Children to Engage in Social Media
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Digital Citizenship Acceptable Use Agreement
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Google Docs Digital Citizenship Continuum
[|Comprehensive spreadsheet]

Why Should We Teach Internet Safety To Young Children?
[|Children are trusting. When they see information on a website or video, they will have an instinctive desire to believe what is said and written.]

A thought:
"Myth Killed. A kid is more likely to be molested while attending church w/a relative than spending time with a stranger on the internet" Tom Whitby.

Just Say Yes to Publishing.
[|At some point we have to get over our fear of letting students publish!]” exclaimed Alan November at the #blc10 conference I recently attended. This is the call to action from many education thought leaders who are talking about, writing about, and making videos about why as responsible educators, administrators, parents, and families we need to just, “get past our fear of the unknown and embrace the very tools we are blocking (which are also essential tools for the global economy) then we could build much more motivating and rigorous learning environments. We also have an opportunity to teach the ethics and the social responsibility that accompany the use of such powerful tools.

Internet Safety and Digital Citizenship
[|Internet Safety and Digital Citizenship Presentations for Students, Parents and Teachers]