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ABCmouse is a early learning subscription-based digital educational program for children ages 2-8. ABCmouse has a full online based curriculum and is a safe educational website for students and parents.

How to be safe on the internet video for children

teaching internet safety: DARE

Tips for teaching students with autism

Teaching strategies for autism

A site where students can play educational games, listen to storybooks, color, and watch videos.

This site contains lessons and interactive activities to teach kids how to use Internet responsibly.

Animated cartoon illustrating the safe way to use the Internet.

This is the final report from a task force looking into Internet safety for a group of State Attorneys.

After further research this group is stating that online social networks and collaboration are safer than originally stated.

Search Engine for Kids- all subjects

The site provides training and products along with an entire curriculum for educators as well as parents.

The site provides training and products along with an entire curriculum for educators as well as parents.

Good grief. Should we also tell them to stay away from the road because of the dangerous cars? Sounds like another way to deny kids an increasingly important 21C literacy.

Apologies - I thought you were advocating for the bulleted section of the article.

Thanks. My general rule of thumb is to only advocate for continual improvement through on-going learning. I consider myself to be pretty tech-savvy and was SHOCKED to learn that GPS coordinates get auto-embedded in images. I'd never considered this before and don't consider the extra information (GPS coordinates that can easily be mapped to an exact location) something that "should be" (yet it is) made available to anyone who can view a picture. In other words, let's say, I'm super careful to not include identifying information in my photos (my name, school name, city landmarks, etc) and take a picture of say, my stereo system. I've now included with this image the exact coordinates for where my home (with stereo) is located. Now a potential thief has this information (w/Google Map directions). It's super hard to be intentional about all of our choices and actions (including using GPS data w/cell phone images). That said, the more we all know, the more each of us is able to make decisions that best align with our own views, values and understandings. It's one thing for an adult to make a decision or not make a decision about inclusion of GPS data in their cell phone taken images, it takes another level of consideration when it involves giving that capability to children. THANK YOU for helping me to capture and better articulate my thoughts in this area!