The document discusses various online risks students may face such as inappropriate contact, conduct, and content. It provides tips for students to stay safe online, including not sharing personal information, using privacy settings, thinking before posting, and reporting any inappropriate behavior. Students are advised to apply the same safety principles online as in real life. The document also lists resources for internet safety education.

1. Keeping Students Safe
Internet Safety
Dale Martin EDIM 510
Online Risks:
- Inappropriate Contact
- Inappropriate Conduct
- Inappropriate Content
- Online Privacy and Reputation
Most students get into trouble online by making poor decisions

2. Inappropriate Contact
Students should:
• Recognize, avoid exposure to, and protect
themselves from others with bad
intentions (online predators, peers)
• Apply the same safety principles online
that they would in the real world
• Never give post personal information (full
name, address, phone number, birthdate)
• Know how to use privacy settings to limit
access to their page
• Know who they are adding as a ‘friend’
• Never meet online acquaintances off-line

3. Inappropriate Conduct
Students should:
• Discuss cyber-bullying & netiquette
• Respect the privacy & reputation of
others
• Think before they post ...
- How will the information affect them?
- How will the information affect others?
• Know that online actions often have off-
line consequences
• Report rude comments, harassment, or
cyber-bullying to an adult
• Be familiar with your school’s Acceptable
Use Policy

4. Inappropriate Content
• Students may be exposed to or search for
sites with unsuitable material:
- pornography
- criminal activity (drugs, bomb-making)
- unsuitable groups or organizations
- material containing viruses
• Students may use the internet to
download unsuitable material:
- file sharing (music, videos, software)
- copyrighted files
- plagiarism
- pornography
• Develop and enforce an Acceptable Use
Policy for your school

5. Online Privacy and Reputation
Students should:
• Not share passwords
• Know how to use privacy settings
• Understand that what they post online:
- may not be fully retrievable
- will impact their present and future
reputation
• Keep personal information personal ...
consider identity theft
• Use a ‘screen name’ instead of their real
name

6. Online Resources
• http://www.internetsafety101.org/
• http://www.netsmartz.org/Educators
• http://schools.wiredsafety.org/
• http://www.childrenonline.org/
• http://www.ncte.ie/InternetSafety/
• http://www.cyber-safety.com/

7. Citations:
Images:
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Pure Imagination (Producer). (2012). Wide Shot of Laptop Computers with Students Working. [Image]. Available from
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Pure Imagination (Producer). (2012). Front View of Three Students Working on Laptop. [Image]. Available from
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/toddhiestand/197704394/
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