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Internet Safety with grades K-4 led by Pat Hough notes by Adam Shechter (thanks, Adam)!

Internet safety.

Brainpop Jr. Has a great video called "internet safety" in the arts and techonology category. Gives an idea for the tone of talking about safety. Parents (understandably) get concerned about what content for internet safety would be for younger kids.

3rd and 4th Grade Karah and Winston's Smart Adventure

Favorite sources for safety is commonsensemedia.org and childnet-int.org Now has age range of K-9.

cybersmartcurriculum.org

A lot of sites are saying the same things. Just about picking the appropriate topics for each age.

3rd and 4th. SMART = SAFE We're going to look at some movies and discuss some very real things that happen on the internet. Anyone ever been scared by something they saw on the internet?

Kids want to know how to be safe on the internet. They are ready for these conversations. Some kids, and their parents are scared to death.

At CGPS, Pat is starting a monthly forum for lower school parents about safety and anti-cyberbullying.

Fears are understandable, but want to give REAL DATA about what is happening. Important to incorporate real world values from the get-go.

THE GOLDEN RULE-Values and Ethics. What we do in real life and how we interact with people is the same as in real life. Be responsible, whether on the street or on club penguin. You don't want to communicate with someone in a way you would not like to receive. We are not here to do hurtful things.

If something happens, first thing you do is get adult, babysitter, caregiver. In kindergarten, there isn't a whole lot you can do beyond this. Anyone working with Kindergarten.

Once kids get to grade 2, they could watch brainpop movie.

Get info to parents about Brainpop. Visit at home with family.

NYSSL money can be used for brainpop.

In Engineering and Technology section. Digital citizenship. Solid information. Does Brainpop JR have an equivalent. Yes. BLogs, email, internet safety.

Professor Garfield. Infinite learning lab. Longer than brainpop, but good. Online safety, cyberbullying.

commoncraft.com. PROTECTING YOUR ONLINE REPUTATION. also about wikis, social networking, clouds, etc. School culture. What things would be acceptable. We are doing something new. How do we make it stick. Inch pebbles instead of Milestones.

We need to try to find a way to communicate in a way that is more open with parents. Best practices of this are the parents and the school together. A lot of this is NOT TECHNOLOGY RELATED. It is ethics. Related to bullying. Technology is not the cause, but it does magnify and facilitate.

Whose responsibility is it? 6th graders were swearing wearing their uniforms, posted it on youtube. Informed tech, but this was a discipline issue, but not all the responsibility on technology.

Teaching kids how to participate in the mediated world in a way that is ethical, empathetic. The future leaders are not just the internet consumers, they are creators of content. These are the people who will make content that others go to. LURKERS vs. CREATORS.

It is so easy to use content. Dragging images into document. Why are you making drawings instead of using clipart.

This is not a unit that ends. This will continue to move on and change.

You need to revisit every year. Each year the group changes. There is more that they are doing, more that they know. Cell phones, email in 4th grade. Exponential growth.

Voicethread. Make an inappropriate comment. Some things you can delete, others you cannot. Not everything is this easy to fix.

Student from 1988 called about content that is showing up when they look up their name. It seemed okay at the moment. 20 years on, our ideas change.

How do you talk about faculty about how they present themselves on FACEBOOK.

DANAH BOYD. Talks about high school in 90s, she had her own life on the internet. Ethnography and the internet. People thought they had a utopia where they could do what they wanted. Didn't know what it would become. Ingrained ideas.

Movie. CATFISH. About ideas of people on Facebook, vs. meeting people in real life. Not horror story, but interesting, more realistic possibility.

Is using brainpop passive? One strategy. Do the quiz first, so you are prepared and wondering where answers are.

Garfield poster. YAPPY.

Make your own poster!