Internet Safety

Handouts for Internet Safety include… Internet Safety Quiz – Internet Safety: What Can Parents Do – Internet Safety: Parent Brochure – Removing Personal Information – Creating a Safe MySpace Profile – How to Remove a MySpace Profile… (Kentucky Center for School Safety)

Department of Justice – Parents should stay involved in their digital world, know the apps they use, use parental controls where possible, and block and report people if they are abusing the internet.

Common Sense Media – Resources include information about apps, online safety and articles.

Handouts for Internet Safety include… Internet Safety Quiz – Social Media/Internet Safety – Apps – Sexting – School Threats  … (Kentucky Center for School Safety)

NetSmartz’s resources for educators offer multiple ways to engage students, parents and communities in important lessons in digital citizenship and online safety. Students can learn how to be safer online with this free collection of teaching materials for families and students in grades K-12. NetSmartz offers materials to help create a dynamic and engaging Internet safety curriculum.

This is a site from the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children that teaches online safety to kids ages 8 to 12 …

This kit helps students in grades 6-12 teach their peers and younger students about topics like cyberbullying, online privacy, and digital ethics.

Be Internet Awesome includes a free web-based game called Interland and an educational student curriculum on digital citizenship and safety. Google partnered with Internet Keep Safe Coalition and educators across the country to create a classroom curriculum with lesson plans, activities and worksheets that align with the International Society for Technology in Education’s Standards for Students. ISTE has awarded these lessons with its Seal of Alignment for Readiness.

Schoolsafety.gov – Cyberattacks and online threats are an increasingly significant and widespread problem for K-12 schools and school districts. Educational institutions can be a lucrative and vulnerable target for malicious cyber actors because they maintain extensive amounts of sensitive student and staff data and personal information, utilize multiple forms of networking technologies and systems to facilitate learning, and often lack resources to put in place a comprehensive cybersecurity program.

Providing the Tools That Schools Need — Free for all public and private K-12 schools, Bark for Schools includes G Suite and Office 365 student account monitoring, Chrome/Chromebook monitoring, and web content filtering.

Common Sense Media – Sharing photos, posting comments, playing video games — these are just a few of the ways that kids interact online. But when sharing goes beyond friends and family, it can be risky. Read about privacy and Internet safety and watch this video to learn five Internet safety rules for kids.

Common Sense Media – The best internet safety lessons recognize the complexity of these topics and help students build the critical-thinking skills and habits of mind to navigate the dilemmas they encounter. Below are the best internet safety lesson plans for students in grades K–12. See the full Common Sense K–12 Digital Citizenship Curriculum for lesson plans on additional digital citizenship topics.

Federal Trade Commission – Consumer Information – Social networking sites, chat rooms, virtual worlds, and blogs are how teens and tweens socialize online; it’s important to help your child learn how to navigate these spaces safely. Among the pitfalls that come with online socializing are sharing too much information or posting comments, photos, or videos that can damage a reputation or hurt someone’s feelings.

Allconnect – Learn the dangers of public Wi-Fi and when it’s okay to use and when to wait.

FBI-SOS is a free, fun, and informative program that promotes cyber citizenship by educating students in third to eighth grades on the essentials of online security.

… district adopt an acceptable use policy and require a user agreement form to comply with the policy … and implement an acceptable use policy applicable to every school which conforms to the guidelines …

Acceptable Use Policy Consideration for Districts- Kentucky K-12 – …school districts are required to establish Acceptable Use Policies (AUP’s) for appropriate technology use.