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The study illuminates that there is no cohesive effort to provide young people the education they need to safely and securely navigate the digital age and prepare them as digital citizens and employees.

Because Cory was in a class that used social networking tools for writing-specifically Elgg, an open source media platform-other students, teachers, family members and even the general public were able to comment on his story. For example, an "army colonel," who did not give a name, said about chapter 1, "Your words have painted a very vivid picture. You did an excellent job of illustrating the terror of war. Keep up the good work."

Organized by ASPIRA of NY, a Latino youth services organization. This site is dedicated to promoting cyber awareness, particularly within the Latino community, and to helping parents protect themselves and their children against cyber predators, bullies and frauds. Information on cyberbullying, cybersafety, cyberfraud and cyberpredators is available in English & Spanish.

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Anne, this is also a great site. Thank you for these resources.

This mini-unit (set of lessons) uses games, easy explanations, and the "Trading Places" episode of the popular animated series CYBERCHASE to teach kids about financial literacy.

More advice from Sue Waters on how to moderate comments and posts using GMail.

Students read and interpret a fictional short story about a girl who was nearly abducted from an online predator. For a real life version of this, see Katie Canton's story.

In 2006, legislation in the state of Virginia added a new component to the educational curriculum for GR K-12: Internet Safety for Students. This colorful 25-page Citizen's Cyberguide focuses on a middle school audience and integrates ethical standards that can promote their use of the web more wisely and responsibly. Includes information on general safety, social networking and gaming and is designed to help kids develop safety skills, cyberethics and respect regarding their behavior online. Materials were developed at James Madison University.

Subscription-based virtual world with some free activities and content for kids. Click on the video to learn how sixty GR 4-5 students in Marin County, CA used Dizzywood to learn about core social values and digital citizenship in this environment. More info about the school project is provided in this podcast, starting at 4:30 minutes into the broadcast.

"But there is growing consensus among lawyers and legislators that the child pornography laws are too blunt an instrument to deal with an adolescent cyberculture in which all kinds of sexual pictures circulate on sites like MySpace and Facebook. " But there is growing consensus among lawyers and legislators that the child pornography laws are too blunt an instrument to deal with an adolescent cyberculture in which all kinds of sexual pictures circulate on sites like MySpace and Facebook.

Gardner tells us that what is unique about digital media and our era is that you can be as young as 7 or 8 and participate ... in some kind of a social network site or game and you are in touch potentially with thousands and thousands of other people. So the former lag between behaving morally toward people you know and behaving ethically toward people in the community who you don't know - that's been lost.

Collaborative conversations recorded by students around the topic of MySpace using VoiceThread.

Signals that indicate a child is being cyberbullied - or doing the actual cyberbullying!

One 8th grade class's experience with backchanneling while watching a video. Great ideas here!

A district-wide coordinated effort to provide student instruction during Cyber Smart Week. Includes PowerPoint instructions and extension activities for GR K-3, 4-8 and 9-12.

This section contains links to a variety of scenarios of ethical and unethical technology use by students. The scenarios will include discussion questions and brief commentary.Doug welcomes real receiving real incidents from your experiences as a library media specialist, teacher or parent that would make good discussion starters.