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Childnet: Online Safety: Home Learning
Recently, you may have had to do a lot of your schoolwork or learning at home, using technology during lock-downs or when self-isolating. This can be called home learning, e-learning or remote learning and might refer to work set over...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Creating a Safe Persona on the Internet
Contains plans for five lessons that explore naming conventions and safety on the internet. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well as assessment and reflection...
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Childnet: Online Safety: Parents: Supporting Young People Online (Leaflets)
Information and advice for parents and carers on supporting young people online. Issues that your child may encounter on the internet will vary depending on their age and online activities. We have grouped potential online risks into...
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Childnet: Online Safety: Supporting Lgbt Children Online
The internet offers LGBT children and young people a sense of belonging, community and support as well as providing new ways to create, entertain, express themselves, find allies and be activists. All young people's experiences are...
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Childnet: Online Safety: Star Films
Four animated learning films to support and reinforce the key messages from the teaching toolkit. Each film contains: A short 2-3 minute animated film covering issues related to each section of the toolkit, a pause function to prompt...
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Childnet: Online Safety: Medical Misinformation
Misinformation is inaccurate information shared by accident. It can sometimes confuse, mislead, or influence people. COVID-19 is a new virus, which means it is sometimes easy for people to misunderstand information, interpret it...
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Childnet: Online Safety: Step Up, Speak Up!
This site offers a practical campaign toolkit to address the issue of online sexual harassment amongst young people aged 13-17 years. Step Up, Speak Up! includes a range of resources for young people and the professionals who work with...
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Childnet: Online Safety: Working With Children and Young People Online
We have created a practical guide for organizations working with children and young people online. This guide focuses on the issues that organizations told us they needed the most support on. These include: the key risks children and...
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Childnet: Online Safety: Picture This (Drama Activity About Sexting)
A practical educational sexting resource that addresses and questions the sensitive issue of sending sexually explicit messages or photos electronically with 11-16 year olds. By asking young people to step into the shoes of the...
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Childnet: Online Safety: How to Make a Report
Reporting advice for adults and young people. Most services have rules about what kind of content is allowed on the site. Often if something is harassing an individual, pornographic or violent it breaks the rules. You can report this...
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Orca Book Publishers: Chat Room Teaching Guide [Pdf]
Chat Room by Canadian author Kristin Butcher deals with the important issue of online safety. Linda, a teenager, develops a friendship online with someone who begins to send her gifts. This teacher's guide includes a book summary and...
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Childnet: Online Safety: Digital Well Being
Going online and using technology can impact our emotions and mental health. Digital well-being is about recognizing the way going online makes us feel and knowing how to manage this. It includes questions and answers and tips for...
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Childnet: Online Safety: Get Answers
Got questions about how to stay safe online and what to do when things go wrong? Get answers here! It includes questions concerning cyberbullying, meeting people from online, online gaming, time spent online, what does the report button...
Get Safe Online
Get Safe Online: Videos
There are many security threats today associated with internet use. This site presents some online videos that discuss security issues such as online rip-off schemes, protecting privacy, and protecting your computer from online attacks.
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Childnet International: Know It All: Primary Schools: Glossary of Technology
Glossary of technology terms lets you check your understanding of key terms associated with ICT tools, ICT technologies, and e-safety issues.
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Be Web Aware : Social Networking
An informative article looking at teens and social networking. What is it? What should parents know and the need to encourage privacy issues in these open forums of social interaction.
BBC
Bbc News: Selfie Body Image Warning Issued
Could too much involvement in social media cause body image issues. Read about what current research says on the subject.
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Childnet: Online Gaming: An Introduction for Parents and Carers
Internet safety advice is directly applicable to the gaming environment. It is essential that children are aware of the potential issues and are given the skills and knowledge to help manage and reduce these risks, with the help of those...
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What Students Need to Know: Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy
This lesson unit published by the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario has four activities that explore the concept of privacy and prompt the discussion of privacy issues in students' own lives. The lessons refer to privacy...
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Childnet: Online Sexual Bullying: Advice for Parents and Carers of 9 12 Year Old
The thing that is happening online but nobody talks about. Childnet has produced this guidance to help parents and carers and their children talk about the important issue of online sexual bullying -- specifically when this is happening...
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Childnet: Online Sexual Harassment: Advice for Parents and Carers of 13 17 Year
The thing that is happening online but nobody talks about. Childnet has produced this guidance to help parents and carers and their children talk about the important issue of online sexual bullying -- specifically when this is happening...
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The Center for the Study of Technology and Society
This online magazine offers the latest news and information concerning the relationship between society and available technologies.