Generation Safe™ helps the whole school community navigate the digital environment by providing a comprehensive set of resources for all stakeholders: professional development (online videos), incident management, and a comprehensive self assessment.
iKeepCurrent is a FREE curriculum resource from iKeepSafe - Generation Safe. It provides a newsfeed of applicable current events with appropriate connected lessons. It's a constant source of headline-inspired curricula and professional development mixed with fresh, entertaining content to ignite discussion between educators and students. (grades 6-12)
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Marsali Hancock's Presentation
Administrator & Teacher Resources
Background Information
Microsoft Computing Safety Index
Digital Law Webinar
In this archived webinar, legal expert, Jan Tomsky, addresses many of the questions around CA laws and digital issues on campus. She provides guidance on the latest updates to California education code, including cyberbullying, cell phone search and seizure and sexting.
Prevention Resources
BrainPop: Cyberbullying
BrainPop, a provider of animated instructional videos, provides a FREE video lesson on cyberbullying with accompanying activities and resources. It includes a quiz that can be emailed to the teacher. (grades 4-8)
C3 Framework: Promoting Responsible Use
This document from Generation Safe points out that school policies and instruction often do not include all Cyberethics, Cybersafety, and Cybersecurity (C3) topics. It goes in depth about C3 issues to help readers better understand this topic.
Common Sense Media Education
Based on the work of Howard Gardner and the GoodPlay Project at Harvard, the curriculum uses case studies to emphasize critical thinking and decision making. Lessons are divided into three major topical strands: 1. Safety and Security, 2. Digital Citizenship and 3. Research and Information Literacy. It's FREE, but you must register as an educator to access the units. The unit, Connected Culture, offers 6 lessons on cyberbullying. You can access grade K-5 lessons on cyberbullying here. (grades K-12)
Cybersmart.org
Now part of Common Sense Media's resources, these FREE comprehensive, standards-based lesson plans cover Safety and Security, Manners and Cybercitizenship, Cyberbullying and Digital Citizenship. (grades K-12)
FBI-SOS
Once you register your class for this FREE program, each month students compete in their grade to win the FBI-SOS Internet Challenge and a trophy on a different topic. Students do an online scavenge hunt and complete a quiz. The program starts over with a new topic each month (September-May), so you can join at any time. Topics range from protecting personal Information, to cyberbullying to copyright. (grades 3-8)
Heads Up: Stop. Think. Click.
This FREE guide for kids from the FTC has tips on sharing information with care, interacting with tact, and cyberbullying. It is the companion piece to the parents' guide, Net Cetera (see below). It is a great discussion tool for teachers. Printed booklets can be ordered in bulk for FREE here. (grades 6-8)
iKeepCurrent
iKeepCurrent is a FREE curriculum resource from iKeepSafe - Generation Safe. It provides a newsfeed of applicable current events with appropriate connected lessons. It's a constant source of headline-inspired curricula and professional development mixed with fresh, entertaining content to ignite discussion between educators and students. (grades 6-12)
NetSkills4Life
Internet-safety materials for teachers, students and parents.
NetSmartz Workshop (English and Spanish!)
This FREE interactive, educational program of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) is designed to help teach children ages 5-17 to be safer off and online. The site provides an Online Safety Education Kit (grades K-6), video lessons (grades 4-12), and downloadable presentations for parents, tweens, and teens. See the video lessons on cyberbullying here. You can also go directly to NSTeens animated videos or Real-Life Stories videos---a series of narratives from teens about real experiences of online victimization. (grades K-12)
Professor Garfield Foundation: Internet Safety and You
The website provides 4 video lessons featuring Garfield cartoons. The site also provides various lesson materials promoting responsible citizenship. (grades 3-5)
Project Look Sharp
Provides materials, training and support to help teachers integrate media literacy into their classroom curricula.
Southern Poverty Law Center Presents, Bullied
Bullied is a documentary film that chronicles one student’s ordeal at the hands of anti-gay bullies and offers an inspiring message of hope to those fighting harassment today. With companion lesson plans, it can become a cornerstone of anti-bullying efforts in middle and high schools. (7-12)
Workshop: Raising Kids in a Digital World (Middle and Highschool)
This presentation from CommonSense Media is designed to help facilitate a parent education event with parents of elementary school students. It includes power point and talking points.
Detection & Intervention
BullyBust by the National School Climate Center (NSCC)
This site provides excellent resources for educators to promote upstander behavior. Materials include: Discussion questions, activities, handouts, and NSCC's Best Practices
Facebook: Security Department/ Custodian of Records
Designed for law enforcement, the site provides the contact info for Facebook-- specifically regarding subpoena requests.
Interdisciplinary Response to Youth Sexting
This article offers recommendations concerning sexting from the Youth Online Safety Working Group (including NCMEC).
Sexting Fact Sheet
This fact sheet summarizes key issues about sexting for parents and educators.
The Teen Sexting Problem and What Schools Can Do about It
The article briefly discusses why sexting is problem among young people, but focuses on how schools can prevent and respond to sexting incidents.
TextEd
A Canadian Web site that educates about text messaging. Contains an "Acronictionary" that defines many text message acronyms.
Incident Management & Response
Blog: Cyberbullying Research Center
This blog discusses how to keep kids safe from online harassment and victimization.
Board Policies
CyberBullying: US Dept of Healthy & Human Services campaign to prevent bullying
This website offers games and scenarios designed to help children learn to safely handle bullying situations.
The Health Communicator's Social Media Toolkit
The toolkit is designed to provide partners with guidance and share lessons learned in integrating social media into health communication campaigns, activities, and emergency response efforts.
Tracking forms from The CB Research Center and CSRIU by Nancy Willard
Trustee Poster from The CB Research Center
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