Cyber-safety |
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Your school and/or board should have an Internet safety policy, which all students and parents should sign before going on-line. The policy looks at acceptable and unacceptable use and should touch on cyber-bullying. If your school does not have a policy, work with administration to draft one.
| 1. | Role model acceptable Internet use for the students. Show them how to get out of an inappropriate site and how to report the site. Show them safe ways to search for information and how to use critical thinking to decide if they want to explore a site. | ||||||
| 2. | Give your students various search engines that are safer and ensure they will find sites suited to their age and purpose rather than those catering to adult interests. Some search engines are:
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| 3. | Take students onto sites that have incorrect or badly written information. Yahooligans has an area of their site dedicated to this. Show children how using the search button on their browser will bring up commercial sites that companies pay to have appear first in a search even though it is not a direct match to their search parameters. Help students become critical users of the Internet by encouraging them to ask questions about the relevance, reliability, neutrality and truthfulness of the information they encounter on a site. |
Click here to download a Cyber-Safety Pledge Card you can use with your students.
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Cyber-safety links:
- Ontario Ministry of Education - Online Respect and Responsibility
- Cybertip.ca
- Kids in the Know
- CyberWise Teens
- Don’t Believe the Type
- NetSmartz
- Cyber-safety Tips
- Be Web Aware
- I Keep Safe
- Connect Safely
- Stop Cyberbullying