These resources cover various aspects of online safety, including protecting oneself from scams, understanding personal information sharing, and recognizing signs of online threats.
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Hazardous area, by Terry Freedman
8 resources for online safety
Some of the e-safety resources listed here are for adults, some for parents, and others are useful for discussing with (older) students.
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Photo by Andras Vas on Unsplash
What do kids get up to online?
Here are several research reports on kids’ behaviour online.
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Fake news in the 17th century?
Digital Education: Safer Internet Day
With Safer Internet Day just around the corner, the latest issue of Digital Education contains several links to resources and reports.
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What I've been reading: So you've been publicly shamed
A harrowing, but very readable, account of how public shaming affects the victims.
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Some interesting e-safety resources
It's Safer Internet Day on 7th February this year. Here are some reading and some resources to do with e-safety. I hope you find them useful.
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Picture from Tony Netone
Online safety with Romeo and Juliet
The technology may have changed, but children don't.
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Photo from Ian Stannard CC BY-SA 2.0
3 e-safety pins
Here are three useful pins from Pinterest on the subject of e-safety for kids.
Read MoreSafer Internet Day
In time for Safer Internet Day, we published a special e-safety edition of Digital Education, the ezine for those with a professional interest in education technology. Here is some information about three of them.
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Today I sent out my newsletter, Digital Education, and because today is Safer Internet Day the word “pornography” appeared. And guess what? The newsletter was blocked by a Local Authority’s filtering system. I’m not sure whether or not this is worse than the time I was told my website was blocked – because it featured an article about social networking.
Read MoreDigital Education: Safer Internet Day edition out now!
Updated! Discounts, competitions, news of events coming up, commentary, and advice about internet safety! And it's completely free!
Here’s what this issue contains:
Safer Internet Day
Just a quick reminder: this annual event us nearly upon us – tomorrow, 8th February 2011. See the Safer Internet Day website, and the Safer Internet Day Fair. What will your school be doing for the event? Check out the Think u Know website too. You might also find this post interesting: Digital Safety for Children and Youth. It has some interesting links.
First published in Computers in Classrooms, the free e-newsletter for edcational ICT professionals.
A Safer Internet
As I wrote recently, I attended a conference on Taming the Wild Web, which was followed by the launch of a new certificated course in safe social networking, called, appropriately enough, Safe.
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