With so many schools starting back online, the folks at NetSmartz have stated that it’s more important than ever that children understand how to be safe and responsible digital citizens and we couldn’t agree more!
They have provided a couple of different options:
If you want your child to be at the helm of their online safety learning PDFs are now fillable for students’ typed responses and suggestions have been made for how to submit artistic and creative assignments to teachers and classmates. https://www.missingkids.org/content/dam/netsmartz/downloadable/using-into-the-cloud-at-home.pdf
For teachers, there are two new presentations, “Teaching Modern Safety with Into the Cloud” now available for grades K-2 and 3-5. Easy to adapt for a real time screencast/webinar style lesson, or to record asynchronous learning!
3rd-5th Grade https://go.missingkids.org/e/808593/20Into20the20Cloud-3-5-508-zip/n5zh/42818828?h=_NlU3x7w4lWJja7QJNsBUUbOWFT67XqBPJMCJoSd3E8
Parents can’t be monitoring their children online all the time, but there are some great questions to ask if you watch season 1 (~30 minutes) of Into the Cloud with your child, then read about the safety issues addressed in the episodes, and talk through the discussion questions.
For older children and teens, you can download the “Your Photo Fate” Discussion guide and get step-by-step instructions, conversation starters, and advice on how to talk to teens about healthy relationships and sexting.
Some great tips “Internet Safety at Home” will help with some practical suggestions.