EL Civics / Internet Safety

INTERNET SAFETY

Tasks 1 and 2 BL-BH Practice: Identify Internet Uses (In your binders.)
Task 3 IL-ADV Practice: Read and Interpret Privacy Settings (In your binders.)

Task 4 IL-ADV: Write About Internet Safety- Cyberbullying Essay Outline

From gcflearnfree.org Internet Safety

Technology Safety for English Language Learners

Cyberbullying

NEW! This section offers guidelines for cyberbullying prevention, as well as strategies for addressing problems that arise and for monitoring online activity for potential problems.

Teaching Tolerance: Cyberbullying and Bias

These articles and blog posts from Teaching Tolerance provide educators with a number of activity idea for addressing cyberbullying with students, particularly around areas of bias and cultural sensitivity.

KidsHealth: Articles for Families

KidsHealth offers a number of articles for kids, teens, and parents about cyberbullying, which are also available in Spanish:

stopbullying.gov- Information on what is cyberbullying, who is at risk, and how to prevent cyberbullying.

Real Life Stories About Cyberbullying

Stomp Out Bullying and Cyberbullying

Privacy in the Digital Age

What Does the Public Know About You?

The Web Means the End of Forge tting

Private Moment Made Public, Then a Fatal Jump Tyler Clementi is thought to have committed suicide, days after he was secretly filmed and broadcast on the Internet.

Smart Cookies Put Targeted Online Ads on the Rise Cookies tell advertisers just what they want to know to sell a product.

Digital Privacy Quiz

1. Identify different types of social media and their primary functions (Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter).	Social Networking in Plain English What is Social Media? What is Facebook? What is Twitter? What is LinkedIn?
2. Create a new account on a social media network.	Getting Started with Facebook Setting a Facebook Profile Create a Twitter Account LinkedIn Tutorial: Creating a Profile
3. Recognize information posted by others or online or on social media networks that may present a risk to you (user as consumer of information).	Smart Social Networking
4. Demonstrate knowledge of managing "friends" on Facebook: adding friends or accepting/declining "friend" requests.	Finding Friends on Facebook Today Show: Facebook Etiquette
5. Demonstrate an awareness that social media accounts have privacy settings that can be set by users.	Privacy Settings in Facebook Facebook 101: Sharing on Facebook Adjusting your Facebook Privacy Settings
6. Demonstrate an understanding of the consequences of "liking" something.	Share with Care Protecting Reputations Online
7. Share content by uploading media.	Sharing on Facebook How to Add Photos in Facebook Adding Facebook Profile Photo Facebook 101: Sharing on Facebook How to Tweet
8. Identify information that is unwise to post and/or upload on a social media (too much personal sharing, inappropriate photos/comments) (User as publisher of information).	Protecting Reputations Online Understanding Facebook Privacy
9.Distinguish between public and private "spaces" on social media sites (ex: Facebook messages and Facebook wall).	Today Show: Facebook Etiquette Facebook 101: Chat and Messages Understanding Facebook Privacy Smart Social Networking
10. Post, share, like or comment on content.	Status Updates and Comments Sharing on Facebook How to Tweet LinkedIn Tutorial: What is LinkedIn?
11. Demonstrate knowledge of the permanence of anything posted on the internet.	Share with Care Protecting Reputations Online Smart Social Networking