Friday, December 3rd, 2010
If you’re looking for resources to help your students improve their information literacy skills and stay safer online, Google’s Digital Literacy Tool is a great resource to explore. I want to let you know upfront that some of this material is YouTube hosted, which will pose some filtering-related problems. Talk with your tech coordinator for [...]
Information Literacy and Online Safety
Tags: informational literacy, online safety, Resources, Search
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Tuesday, September 14th, 2010
Google recently announced the creation of their Google Family Safety Center and the Google Family Safety Center YouTube Channel Helping your children use the Internet safely is similar to teaching them to navigate the offline world. There are parts of the real world that you wouldn’t let your children explore unsupervised—and that goes for the [...]
Google Family Safety Center
Tags: Google, online safety, Resources, youtube
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Friday, April 4th, 2008
National Public Radio aired a pair of very balanced stories on middle and high school students’ expectations of online privacy and attitudes toward safety this week. It’s helpful as educators to understand the changing expectations of privacy of our students. These clips provide some insight. Digital Culture: Teens Take Advantage of Online Privacy Tools (6:37) [...]
Student Attitudes Toward Online Safety
Tags: online safety, privacy
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