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Online Safety - Websites Worth Mentioning

Digital safety is a topic that is so important.  Teachers and parents need to have continuous discussions about appropriate use, online safety, cyberbullying and being careful with searches and web browsing.  Below is a list of resources for parents to access and use for discussing things with your children at home about this.  Teachers are doing this on a daily basis, since technology is used daily, and is such a valuable learning tool.  Students will only continue to have more exposure as they get older and move on to college and careers later in life; this is something that is not going away, and the discussions need to continue.  There are some really great resources here, videos to learn more about online pieces, and overall great tips for helping all our students become better online citizens.

Common Sense Media - This website has created amazing resources on Digital Citizenship and has many videos for parent use in keeping kids safe.

Privacy and Internet Safety - Again this is from Common Sense Media, but has some amazing articles and videos for use.

Safe Search Kids - Google Safe Search has a ton of resources for a variety of topics regarding Cyberbullying, Internet safety, images on line and cell phone use.

NetSmartz - this is a website created by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.  This site offers a variety of trends and topics that are hot in the world today with children and being safe online.  Again, there is such good information here, start digging.


Just a few in case you haven't  seen them - BUT pretty sure I have mentioned some of these before - which is FINE as they are ALWAYS worth mentioning!!

Happy Halloween all,
Mrs. I:)

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