internet safety

Internet Safety for

Elementary Students

Meg GriffinCentral Bucks School Districtmegbg60@gmail.com

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Teachers

Students must:gain the knowledge, skills, and values to independently make safe and responsible choices in a highly interactive, mobile technology environment where they are both consumers and creators of content and will interact with a wide range of people.

Understand the risks- Know how to avoid getting into risk, detect if they are at risk, and respond effectively,including asking for help• Are responsible and ethical

- Do not harm others- Respect the privacy and property of others

• Pay attention to the well-being of others- Make sure their friends and others are safe- Report concerns to an appropriate adult or site

• Promote online civility and respect

The Laws

CIPAChildren's Internet Protection Act

CIPAChildren's Internet Protection Act

“visual depictions that are obscene, child pornography, or harmful to minors...”

http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/ntiageneral/cipa2003/cipareport_08142003.htm

COPPAChildren's Online Privacy Protection Act

The use of pre-arranged photos, taken in a protected environment such as a school or hospital, and showing a highly-defined and recognizable image, requires a release"

COPPAChildren's Online Privacy Protection Act

The use of pre-arranged photos, taken in a protected environment such as a school or hospital, and showing a highly-defined and recognizable image, requires a release"

COPPA2008 Sony BMG Music Entertainment (Sony Music) has

agreed to pay $1 million as part of a settlement to resolve Federal Trade Commission charges that it violated COPPA

2006 Xanga Fined $1 Million For COPPA Violation

Filtering

FILTERING

Required by CIPA but…

Washington Post column by Justin Reich points out that web filters in schools do a great job limiting what teachers can search while not doing much to protect kids. Reich calls filters “knee-high fences around the Internet” that “may trip up older folks, but teens leap right over.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/10/AR2009071003459.html

ALA quotes the National Research Council whose report insightfully points out:

“Swimming pools can be dangerous for children. To protect them, one can install locks, put up fences, and deploy pool alarms. All these measures are helpful, but by far the most important thing that one can do for one’s children is to teach them to swim.”

http://www.lita.org/ala/aboutala/offices/oif/ifissues/ALA_print_layout_1_112849_112849.cfm

The false security that has been generated through reliance on these tools has undermined the establishment of effective education and supervision practices, at school or at home.

A Briefing for Educators:Online Social Networking Communities and Youth RiskNancy E. Willard, Director

What to Do?

http://www.attorneygeneral.gov/kidsparents.aspx?id=2323

http://www.attorneygeneral.gov/kid_site/index.htm

http://nsba.org/site/docs/41400/41340.pdf

http://nsba.org/site/docs/41400/41340.pdf

strike the appropriate balancebetween protecting their studentsand providing a 21st century education

NATIONAL SCHOOL BOARDS ASSOCIATION

should attempt to use social networking as part of the educational process. Whether they know it or not, kids are engaged in informal learning through their use of social networking so why not use the same technology for formal learning? And while you’re at it, incorporate digital citizenship and media literacy into your teaching. 

http://www.safekids.com/index.php?s=teachers

http://www.netsmartz.org/educators.htm

Copyright

http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/curr280.shtml

The Educator's Guide to Copyright and Fair Use

http://www.copyright.gov/legislation/dmca.pdf

THE DIGITAL MILLENNIUM COPYRIGHT ACT OF 1998

Acceptable Use

http://www.isafe.org/imgs/pdf/education/AUPs.pdf

Acceptable Use Policy Examples

http://www.bfccps.org/main/Technology/Documents/AUP.pdf

http://www.8e6.com/documents/pdfs/best_practices/AUP_Best_Practices_Guide_K12.pdf

http://www.justice.gov/criminal/cybercrime/rules/acceptableUsePolicy.htm

http://protecteverychild.org/kids/default.php

http://cyberbully.org/

http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/columnists/willard/willard008.shtml

http://www.ciese.org/internetsafety.html

http://www.safekids.com/

Resources

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