Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Internet Safety and the E Teacher

I think sometimes that when I teach online learners, they are already online, so we can skip the web tutorial.  But it seems that many students today are having elearning thrust upon them an e resources used quickly without a pause for safe practices.  Never was this more obvious to me than at a recent inservice.

A police officer did the following demo.  He asked those at hand to name 3 schools.


He then announced that he was going to pose as an internet predator and would have enough information to take 3 children from those schools before the next speaker was done.  The next speaker was only introducing the schedule and was done is 5 minutes.  At that point the officer stood up and read the names of 3 children and then told us exactly where they would be at 3:15, 4:00 and 4:45 respectively and then held up their pictures.

In 5 minutes...
so that said what can we do to encourage safe usage?
One suggestion my e friends is to have students go through the following  e safety tutorial (slightly dated, but good)
http://www.webwise.ie/lessons/chatwise/flash.html

also the following videos are funny enough to keep kids engaged.
http://www.nsteens.org/Videos

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