Overview
Integrating Internet
Safety and Digital Ethics into the high school classroom includes:
- Periodically
throughout the year observe national, state and local net safety
events with specialized activities.
- Matching
lesson content with cyber character education in the classroom or lab
to provide "snippets" on net safety focus points.
- Discussions
of social issues of the web and how they relate to their social lives
offline.
General
Activities Include
- Watch
videos and engage in discussion about net safety topics.
- Use
current events and classroom related topics to initiate discussion on
their relationships to the internet, digital ethics and cyber
character.
- Teachable
moments including web based research for all classes, language arts
activities, Health/PE (Family Life), Social Studies/Government
projects.
- Use
Web 2.0 tools for collaborations with other students including blogs.
Grades
9-12 Focus Points
- Cyber
Character: Social Networking
- Cyber
Security
- Online
Communications: Email, IM, Chat Rooms, Blogs, Gaming
- Cyber
Predators
- Intellectual
Property & Fair Use
- Career/Job
ethics in relation to cyber character
Focus
Point #1 Cyber
Character: Social Networking
Objectives:
- Students
will be able to draw correlations between cyber and physical
communities.
- Students
will be made aware of the laws and rules applicable to cyber and
physical communities.
- Students
will distinguish between appropriate vs. inappropriate online
materials.
- Students
will discuss issues related to cyber bullying and cyber ethics.
- Students
will critique privacy issues as they relate to safe website design.
Activities/Resources:
- Discuss
the computer safety rules that are posted in the lab and the division Acceptable
Use Agreement.
- Use
web pages to explore various risks that teens may encounter on the
internet. (See high school resources below.)
- Photojournalism, Communications
classes: Spotswood
High School video clips on net safety for voting in class
"which one did you like best and why"
- Students can create their own public service announcement after viewing PSA from web. Example: Chesapeake Public Schools High & Middle Schools Public Service Announcements
- Government
class (Grade 12): Collaborate
with Resource Officer to
provide information on "Class Action" topics including
personal information online and cyberbullying
- English
class (Grade 9): Provide
a 9th Grade
Orientation with assistance from Media Specialist to include
discussions on research, passwords, online communities
- Discussion
on passwords and compromising your accounts. Video Netsmartz:
Broken
Friendships
Terminology: cyber bully,
cyber harrassment privacy, "social
networking"
Focus
Point #2 Cyber
Security
Objectives:
- Students
will discuss issues related to identity theft, malicious code,
phishing and pharming, and spyware.
- Students
may also relate current event issues to Homeland Security, National
Student Watch, and Acceptable Use Policies.
- Students
examine issues with privacy and protecting personal data.
Activities:
- Discuss
the computer safety rules that are posted in the lab and the division Acceptable
Use Agreement.
- Government
class (Grade 12): Collaborate
with Resource Officer to
provide information on "Class Action" topics including
personal information online and cyberbullying
- Language
Arts Project(essay,
video story/PSA, blog discussion group) on identity theft using the FTC
page for content
- Discuss
of student use of tool: Google. Google and Other Mashups
... "What
are they doing with your information?" MasterPlan
and the Power of Google
Terminology: identity
theft, malicious code, phishing, pharming,
spyware, fraud, urban legend
Focus
Point #3 Personal
Safety: Online Communications, Email, IM, Chat Rooms, Blogs, Gaming
Objectives:
- Students
will learn what they should and should not do to keep themselves safe
while engaging in online communications.
- Students
will understand the danger of choosing the wrong friends to interact
with online.
- Students
will understand issues concerning misinformation including fraud,
urban legends and spam.
Activities:
- Discuss
the computer safety rules that are posted in the lab and the division Acceptable
Use Agreement.
- Computer
Literacy classes discuss gaming ethics and interactions with
malcontents known as griefers and cyberbullys
- Government
class (Grade 12): Collaborate
with Resource Officer to
provide information on "Class Action" topics including
personal information online and cyberbullying
- Sociology
class or health class (9th): harrassment
and appropriate verbal communication(Netsmartz
video (You
Can't Take It Back)
- English
class (Grade 9): Provide
a 9th Grade
Orientation with assistance from Media Specialist to include
discussions on research, passwords, online communities
- AirDogs
game from WebWiseKids.org
- Discussion
of online crime, urban legends and fraud using www.snopes.com
Terminology: AUP,
"urban legend", hoax, "good vs
bad password", harrassment, griefer,
dissing, cyberbully
Focus
Point #4 Personal
Safety: Cyber Predators
Objectives:
- Students
will be made aware of characteristics and grooming processes of online
predators.
- Students
will research current statistics on internet safety and predator
activity on the web including
DOPA.
- Students
will examine the types of "risky behavior" that attract
predators. The
"Top Five Risky Behaviors to Avoid"
Activities:
- Sociology
class or Health/PE class: View and discuss Katies
story: WebWiseKids.org - Katie's
Story Video-Top Rated-Real Person
- Class
Discussion on how young people represent themselves online. Use
MySpace as a resource to start a conversation about contemporary
fashion, ideals, and media images.
- Sociology
class, family life class or any class teaching communication:
Use the document "Online
Predators and Their Victims" as a reference point for class
discussion, short papers, etc.
- Using
Danah Boyd's article at Knowledge
Tree, discuss why the web makes it more dangerous to live socially
in public.
Terminology: cyber bully,
disclosure, privacy, "social networking", "privacy
setting", stalker, DOPA
Additional
Resources for High School Classroom Use
- Common
Sense Media CyberSmart Lessons and
discussion ideas for Grades 6, 7, and 8 are still good activities
for specific Needs/Topics found under Common Sense Media CyberSmart
Media.
- Plagiarism
Flash
Activity #1, | Plagiarism Activity
#2 | Plagiarism Activity
#3 |
Plagiarism Activity
#4
- Inappropriate
social relationships and social issues "Top
5 Risky Behaviors"
- Privacy...Google
Expose' A Great discussion provoker
- Current
State of Social Networking Panel Discussion
- Safe
Kids- Chat Room safety and Teen safety on Information Highway
- Cyberbullys
and Gaming
- Online vs Offline relationships Danah Boyd1 ~ Danah Boyd2-DOPA~ Danah Boyd3
- PSAs(including
Spanish) from Cybertipline
and the Ad Council(top rated)
- Taking
the Mystery Out of Copyright
- Email
scams
- PSAs: Bulletin
Board PSA |
Chesapeake
Public Schools Internet Safety Videos
- Tag
based Research Link: Digital
Safety
- NetSmartz
online resources page | NetSmartz
Video Content...ALL GOOD!
- Cyber
Teens
Related
Standards Of Learning
- C/T
9-12.3 The student will demonstrate
knowledge of ethical, cultural, and societal issues related to
technology.
- C/T
9-12.4 The student will practice
responsible use of technology systems, information, and software.
- C/T
9-12.6 The student will use technology to
locate, evaluate, and collect information from a variety of sources.
- C/T
9-12.7 The student will evaluate and select
new information resources and technological innovations based on the
appropriateness for specific tasks.
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