Internet Safety Online Curriculum
Protecting Students in the 21st century is a comprehensive, online internet safety program that involves your students, teachers, and parents to keep teens safe online and with their cell phones. In addition to the online curriculum and training lessons, the program includes assessments, quizzes, and a safety pledge for students, safety plans for teachers, and a self-assessment and resources for parents.
The program offers curriculum and training on the following topic areas:
- Staying safe from online predators
- Preventing and dealing with cyber bullying
- Avoiding inappropriate sites
- Recognizing and handling internet addiction
- Sharing online videos safely
- Protecting computer data
- Surfing the web safely
- Protecting credit card information (online auctions and shopping)
- Avoiding identity theft
- Staying safe with online gaming
- Recognizing internet and email scams and frauds
- Identifying internet hoaxes
- Staying away from online gambling
- Staying safe while using chatrooms, IMs, and Email
- Understanding dangers in newsgroups, bulletin boards, and online forums
- Blogging safely
- Using cell phones safely and avoiding "sexting"
- Keeping information private and staying safe on social networks (MySpace, Facebook, Twitter)
- Recognizing dangers of downloading sites
- Learning about viruses, malware, and adware
- Staying safe and legal using peer-to-peer networks
- Avoiding plagiarism and citing sources properly
- Avoiding unethical practices involving copyrights and paper mills
- Using monitoring and filtering tools (for parents and teachers only)
