Online+Responsibility

=** Online Safety/Responsibility—Elementary Lessons **= Determined that for pilot year, we’d focus work on 3rd grade. Approach is to provide awareness of issues around online safety, privacy issues and manners/netiquette/bullying. Discussed possible activities: viewing videos; discussing what rules should be in place for computer use at school/home, stranger danger connections. Need to be concise in what’s covered as time period is likely to be 30 minutes. This will be a stepping stone to the topics Jason covers at the 5-6 grade level: digital etiquette, cyberbullying, online safety and social networking. Determined that we would use terminology: online responsibility rather than safety to encompass more issues. Jason uses stranger danger concept used for community to extend to the online world as well, so students understand that the rules are the same. Claudia described activities Kristen Roope did with students at the end of the year at all grade levels on these issues. Discussion of what can be done to inform parents. Shared samples from Cybersmart of newsletters. Claudia suggested a Moodle for parents with more materials/information. At librarians’ meeting, Kathy introduced having lessons on these topics be included in library lessons. Once we have a plan completed, Kathy will share with librarians, technology team and building principals as step one to also involving classroom teachers in this process.

** Resources **
**BrainPop Jr.** (K-3) and BrainPop (4th) have good resources on online safety to use—review for use. **Cybersmart!** curriculum is now a part of the Common Sense Media site under the educators tab: [] . There’s material here that could work well for a teacher session on this topic (“Understanding Kids Digital Lives”) including workshop materials (scripts and PowerPoints).

**Shaker Parent Links Page**: []

**Netsmartz** has videos & rules/pledges to consider []

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