YouNow is a live-streaming video app with no login requirements for viewing, and with 70% of 100 million users/sessions each month listed as under 24 years of age. Big implications here for cyber safety.
"Edutopia's collection of articles, videos, and other resources on internet safety, cyberbullying, digital responsibility, and media and digital literacy."
'You can download a PDF of the Scope & Sequence (en español).
Check out these other links:
Curriculum Overview (en español)
Student Assessment
Standards Alignment Charts
Order Materials on a Flash Drive
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Internet Safety
Privacy & Security
Relationships & Communication
Cyberbullying
Digital Footprint & Reputation
Self-image & Identity
Information Literacy
Creative Credit & Copyright
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If properly developed, it can guide and empower them the rest of their lives. Its other pluses:
# Comes universally pre-installed, free of charge
# Has no socio-economic barriers to "adoption"
# Is automatically customized in micro detail as it's used
# Works at the "operating system" level
# Not only doesn't conflict with, but supports and enhances, all other "applications"
# Improves with use
# Is the No. 1 online-safety tool.
"In a digital world, the question is not whether you will leave a mark. The question is, "What kind of mark are you leaving?""
The content of MyFootprintSD is designed to make students cognizant of their digital footprint. In that way, it helps students be aware of what is safe and what is risky when using the web or other digital communication tools. In working through it, students will grow aware of how far these kinds of tools spread into their lives and how large the effects of their use can be (for better or for worse).
Lessons and activities are explained here for educators but directions are included on the students' portion of the website as well.
Elementary, Middle school, and high school
Naming takes on new meanings in digital settings-as students build personas through e-mail addresses, screen names, and online profiles, they can be unaware of the ways that others may read the information they share.