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The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) website is not only designed to provide useful resources about money management for teens, but it also provides information about identity theft and phishing scams.

Bud the Teacher and Stephanie Sandifer are planning an I read blocked blogs day. This is going to be an event for educators advocating access. It would also be a great time to talk about ways to monitor when you provide access. This also happens to be the first aspect of ad4dcss and we've listed it on the wiki. They have shirts that people can get and buttons for your blog.

This is going to be a great project.

Four video clip case studies and internet safety advise from NetAlert (Australian Government). Designed for students. Explore the lives of four young people and their experiences on the Internet. Four situations. Four victims. Four stories. Many strategies. Downloadable lesson plans and student handouts for each case study.

The Vaughan Memorial Library designed this colorful and nteractive flash tutorial on plagiarism to help university students learn how to cite resources, but it is also suitable for younger students.

Easy tutorial that explains what plagiarism is. Choose a player and go through the steps.

Australian online safety site CyberNetrix offers computer-based activities that have been designed for secondary students from years seven to nine as a cross-curricula, cross-year level resource. There is a teacher guide and 11 downloadable student activities.

Months before the newly hired teachers at Philadelphia's Science Leadership Academy (SLA) started their jobs, they began the consuming work of creating the high school of their dreams -- without meeting face to face. They articulated a vision, planned curriculum, designed assessment rubrics, debated discipline policies, and even hammered out daily schedules using the sort of networking tools -- messaging, file swapping, idea sharing, and blogging

Designed for teachers and produced by the staff at Nettrekker, this 14-page document is a free download.

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).

From Simple K-12: Six hours of online curriculum for teens and teachers, designed to meet technology plan goals and government mandates. Includes 29 online lessons that can be customized by each teacher. Six hrs of Internet Safety curriculum with optional assessments and quizzes to measure student understanding of material.

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.

This interactive module for Grades 7 and 8 is designed to increase students' ability to recognize bias, prejudice and hate propaganda on the Internet and in other media.

In this lesson, students share opinions and information about safety issues and concerns on social networking Web sites. They then develop public service announcements designed to inform their peers and guardians.

The GET WISE ABOUT WIRELESS program helps educate students about cell phone use and the responsible behaviors associated with using cell phones. GET WISE ABOUT WIRELESS is designed to encourage educators and families to help their students practice proper cell phone etiquette and safety behaviors. It also seeks to serve as a catalyst for discussions at home among family members about using wireless technology in their day-to-day lives.

Produced in Canada, this new interactive program targets middle school students. Designed for school usage, it explores the social and ethical challenges of the cell phone era. In some locations, it is used as part of the DARE program. The story is set in the fictitious BRAINCELLS HIGH, which is in turmoil. After students begin carrying cell phones, a group of older boys start to steal phones from the younger students. Eddie is the leader of the gang and he forces a younger computer geek named Oliver to hack into the school computer and "adjust" his grades. The venture creates an uneasy bond between the two teenagers. Oliver uses his cell phone to commit the crime for Eddie and Eddie eases Oliver into the inner circle of teens at the high school. Finally, Oliver has to make a decision. Will he go to the police? The story is told through quizzes, animations, activities and games.

"New Image for Computing" recently released a report in their first wave to understand the image of computing among youth. Funded by WGBH and ACM, this report examines both race/ethnicity and sex-based differences in perceptions of computing. What they found was that there is little race/ethnicity-based differences in how youth perceive CS but there are HUGE gender based differences in perception.

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