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Vanessa Aird - Brooklyn Friends - K-12 -- no sites are blocked at their school  Your digital footprint is what comes up when you Google your name. CyberSmart - resources for kids Digital Citizenship  Frontline - Digital Nation Growing Up Online - teen suicides If you won’t say it face-to-face, don’t put it on the internet  Not just technology -- includes advisers, teachers, parents, administration, et al Advisers cover bullying - cyberbullying especially “Walk the Walk” - online activity - interview someone who was bullied & report it back multitasking has effects on your brain --addiction to games, websites, blogs fighting distractions - have kids brainstorm how/why virtual experiences - US military gaming centers Is what you do outside of school still representing the school? Accountability for postings & things outside of the building or curriculum middle school kids really do NOT understand that what they post is forever -- and they’re so impulsive - not thinking ahead... are they really at an age where they can be aware of their friends on facebook and their postings??  CyberSmart - part of common sense media - great lessons by grade level!!!
 * [|__cybersmartcurriculum.org/lessonsbygrade/6-8/__] **
 * (also organized by topic) **
 *  BrainPop.com -- digital citizenship **

give students articles about facebook - make them read, summarize, respond to this ... articles about internet safety, REAL WORLD incidents

managing distractions -- digital distraction -- chapter 1 of Digital Nation

using Google calendars for students to show them how to schedule internet time, hw time, etc

many parents don’t say no, so how do you start a dialog? do parents realize that a smartphone is a laptop? - must come with the conversation and some limits!

at the end of the day, the parents need more education than the kids - the conversations must begin really young & we need to provide the awareness & tools

internet safety talks to the faculty and to parents ---> public awareness campaign, not 1 time talk

have middle school students present their research about cyber safey to the lower schoolers

using emoticons, reminding that you can’t read tone of voice - email etiquette - using subject lines appropriately --- the differences between email writing and school or formal writing

email is almost obsolete for teens, it’s all immediate texting, but is texting avoiding “real” communication? cyber bullying is just bullying - it's not a tech issue, it's a community issue

netsmartz.org real life videos to share with kids

CommonSense media will be presenting at the NYCIST meeting in December - at Spence

Skype no restrictions, kids can answer & see inappropriate things ....

teaching kids that when that internal alarm goes off, they need to change the behavior (or ask an adult for help)