21st Century Learning and Teaching

The interactive, fun, and effective way to teach and test the basics of digital citizenship to 3rd-5th grade...

Digital Passport is fun and effective.

- Web-based games and videos engage 3rd - 5th graders in independent learning

- Modules zero in on critical skills related to digital safety, respect, and community

- Collaborative classroom activities reinforce online lessons

- Students earn badges toward a Digital Passport

- Teachers get robust reports to demonstrate student success

- Currently available on the web and coming soon for mobile devices

- Supports responsible use policies and E-rate

- FREE to your school thanks to generous support from our sponsors

Read more:

https://digitalpassport.org/educator-registration

Safer Internet Day 2013 will take place on Tuesday 5 February 2013 and will be the tenth edition of the event. We hope therefore to make it bigger and better than ever before. Keep checking this page for more information or sign up our newsletter on the homepage.

Read more:

http://www.saferinternet.org.uk/safer-internet-day

Tweens are just starting to become social and mobile, and they are definitely starting to think more about digital technologies. They want to explore Facebook, and they want to get their own mobile phone. Younger kids need things explained differently then older kids. This Tip Sheet can help.

Download this new guide today, hot off the press!

Gust MEES: requires email-registration...

Read more:

http://info.uknowkids.com/online-safety-tips-for-kids-and-tweens/

How can parents support children’s internet safety?

The challenge
Many stakeholders are working together to support children’s internet safety, including governments, teachers, industry providers and services, child welfare agencies, parents and children themselves.

Given the Safer Internet Day 2012 theme of Connecting Generations, we ask whether, instead of imposing restrictions, parents can support their children’s internet safety by sharing a positive experience of internet use with their children...

Read more...

Is this your first time visiting the Internet Safety Project? Don’t worry we were once new too.

Here are a few tips to get you started! Just look for the phrase that best describes you.

I want advice from Internet Safety Experts
Read our blogs here. All of our guest bloggers are Internet safety experts who give great practical advice!

You can also listen to our podcasts! We interview experts and talk about current Internet safety issues.

Every podcast we record is available online for free. Click here to see the full selection.

You can also access blogs and podcasts using the tabs at the top of the site.

I am an Educator or Parent looking for Internet safety resources
You’ve come to the right place! You can search for articles from the main wiki page here for articles on Internet Safety. Or just use the search bar in the upper right hand corner.

You can also look at the resources other Internet safety organizations (See a complete list of Internet Safety Organizations and Products here). Some sites even include curriculum or volunteer programs that you can implement in your community or school. Check out the categories below to get started:

- Organizations for Parents
- Educational Organizations
- I want to know what’s going on in Internet and Technology news right now!
- Read some of our Newswire Reports ( The box on the right side of the site). We post a new report everyday on current internet safety and technology issues.

You can also follow us on twitter and Facebook. We’ll let you know what’s going on in the Internet world, and when our new blogs and podcasts are up.

- I just want to know more about the Internet and the issues out there. Where should I start?

You can search our Internet Safety Project Wiki (search bar in the upper right hand corner), but if you're not even sure what to look for you might want to start by browsing some of our popular pages.

Try starting with our list of wiki articles on Internet basics. These are things that you will probably stumble across in normal computer use, such as: acronyms, browsers, e-mail, and search engines.

Here are articles on some of the bigger safety issues we cover:

- Pornography
- Online Games Addiction
- Identity Theft
- Malware
- Viruses
- Social Networking
- Cyberbullying
- Online Predators
- Texting

  Link: http://www.internetsafetyproject.org/

Connect with AT&T on social media channels like Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and Flickr.

To better understand the landscape for families and mobile phones, AT&T commissioned GfK for a national study with 1,000 parents and 500 children ages 8–17.

Read more, very interesting...:

http://www.att.com/gen/press-room?pid=22917&utm_source=buffer&buffer_share=790ac

Read more...

Help teach tweens/teens about #online #safety & preventing potential risks with this PDF download:

http://t.co/2xYnB2Gi