Kentucky's Office of the Attorney General's home page for cybersafety and cyberbullying awareness and information.
The threat landscape once dominated by the worms and viruses unleashed by irresponsible hackers is now ruled by a new breed of cybercriminals. Cybercrime is motivated by fraud, typified by the bogus emails sent by "phishers" that aim to steal personal information. The tools driving their attacks and fueling the blackmarket are crimeware - bots, Trojan horses, and spyware.
Symantec partnered with One Economy to add Internet Security content to their online information portal, The Beehive. This resource ensures that low-income families and new broadband users have the tools and resources necessary to protect their families.
Whether your kids are Internet beginners or are already Web savvy, you can help to guide their use of the Internet as they grow through different ages and stages in their lives. Child safety information and recommendations for ages 2-17.
One in five of the nation's wired "tweens" -- kids ages 8 to 12 -- has posted personal information on the Internet, and more than a fourth have been contacted online by strangers, a poll released Tuesday found.
A recent survey by Consumer Policy Solutions has found that online safety and privacy rank highest among concerns of adults online. The consulting firm which focuses on consumer interests and the marketplace, earlier this month released results of a survey that showed 56% of respondents don't think they have enough, or any, privacy online.
The survey of 1,035 adults, as well as 260 pairs of parents and teens, highlighted how little parents know about their teens' activities online.
RT Strategies, which conducted the survey, found that 52% of parents said they sit next to their children, or have sat next to their children, while they are online so they can monitor activity. Only 33% of teens said their parents sit next to them, or have sat next to them, while they are online.
AT&T Smart Limits™ brings together information about parental control features across AT&T's wireless, wired, broadband and video service. Includes tools in four areas: Wireless Smart, Surf Smart, Watch Smart and Talk Smart.
Launched in April, the award-winning NetBasics site from New Zealand is composed of 10 highly entertaining flash animations following the travails of the Jones family as they negotiate their way around the Internet. The series includes a collection of good and bad characters in fictional adventures that engage users while they deliver a serious message about the security threats we face every day online.
Lewsisville Independent School District [Flower Mound, TX] has created this excellent Cybersafety Course for Middle School Students, using moodle. It includes a week-long curriculum with videos, web sites to explore, discussion questions and quizzes.
Meridian Education has been producing educational videos for over a decade. They just released two in a series on CyberSafety and CyberEthics. They generously provide a 13-minute preview video clip that is actually quite complete and could be used in whole or in part at training sessions.
This short lecture was presented as part of the April 30, 2008 meeting of the Internet Safety Technical Task Force in Washington, DC. The speaker is Amanda Lenhart of the Pew Internet & American Life Project.
<b><a href ="http://www.dizzywood.com/">Dizzywood</a></b>, a virtual world and online game for children ages 8-12, today announced that it has been selected by the <b>YMCA of San Francisco </B> to enhance the youth program’s technology curriculum. The YMCA is using Dizzywood’s virtual environment to reinforce its program emphasis on activities that promote values such as caring, honesty, respect and responsibility. Children also learn about important issues relating to virtual worlds, such as digital citizenship and online safety, as well as complete storytelling and team-building exercises that emphasize creativity, writing and reading skills, and working together to achieve goals. The YMCA program is similar to the elementary school program that Dizzywood recently completed with the <b>Reed Union School District </b>(Marin County, CA). The highly interactive workshop, which ran from April through June, used virtual activities to reinforce the school’s character pillars, which include caring, citizenship, fairness, respect, responsibility and trustworthiness, among other core values.
“Dizzywood’s unique virtual environment offers our kids a wonderful environment in which they can learn important lessons through activities that require thoughtful decision-making. We hope the success of this program offers a model for other youth programs to follow.”
The partnership reinforces the findings of two recent studies of elementary school students conducted by UC Davis. The studies observed that children find ways to transform their experiences with technology into fun, highly organized group activities and that technology-based activities can be explicitly designed to foster social reflection and advanced planning among young children.
Nancy Willard and Anne Collier offer <b>eight ways to deal with cyberbullies </b> in this article. <br> 1. Identify and block. <br> 2. Set boundaries. <br> 3. File a complaint. <br> 4. Contact the school <br> 5. Send the parents a certfied "cease and desist" letter. <br> 6. Call an attorney. <br> 7. Contact the local police. <br> 8. Talk with your kids about what's acceptable. <br><br>
Video clip scenarios, lesson plans and handouts to teach students about privacy online. Privacy is all tied up in our sense of identity and how we interact with other people. We negotiate our privacy by revealing different things to different people in different circumstances. But when we talk online, what we say can be taken out of context. And that has consequences.
New Hampshire's effort to educate the public on the dangers of the Internet--and helping parents Connect with Their Kids! about Internet safety.
Thirteen downloadable files from the Federal Trade Commission on protecting student privacy online.
With nearly 13 million online users, the rapidly expanding virtual world Second Life is a risk for children, who could be sexually exploited, U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) said Monday."This Second Life is a new scare, unchartered territory," Wilks said at a news conference Monday with Kirk at the Mt. Prospect Police Department. "It hits home." Kirk said he knew of no cases in which children were targeted by sexual predators on Second Life, but he said he considers the virtual world an emerging danger.
This amazing library collection of cybersafety and cyberethics articles from Symantec would make a great resource for teachers who want to assign students different topic areas for student presentations in a digital citizenship class.
Teens share their own “Real-Life Stories” about issues affecting them on the Internet such as cyberbullying, online enticement, and giving out too much personal information. At CTAP, we love these videos and frequently feature them in our workshops and trainings "Feathers in the Wind" and "You Can't Take It Back" are two of our favorites. "Amy's Choice" is also a compelling video clip.
Adapted by the Internet Content Rating Association (ICRA) from various other online safety pledges and contracts developed by multiple entities.
• 97 percent feel that protecting personal privacy is very or somewhat important to them
• 56 percent feel they do not have enough or no privacy at all online
• Across generations, protecting personal privacy is very or somewhat important to 99 percent of Older Americans, 98 percent of parents and 93 percent of teens - Anne Bubnic on 2008-07-25