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This web page teaches children through games how to stay safe online.

Kids and teenagers these days are so technologically advanced, they are able to help teach seniors to use the basic communications online like logging into the computers, and setting up email accounts to be able to communicate with other people easier.

Learn to check facts on Wikipedia - many of these in the news media didn't and now they are embarrassed.

This is a great example of checking your facts. I teach students to always always confirm things they read on wikipedia with another credible source. Looks like newspapers are even less credible than we thought as some reporters need to learn to check their sources! Great article for digital citizenship discussions.

To me, this example is over the line but anything that takes away from your ability to teach is considered a problem and reason to fire you. I think this is no acceptable when the teacher had everything marked as private and did not allow parents nor admins on her facebook page - again, facebook is not secure.

"The real issues of digital citizenship include understanding identity and the opportunities afforded students when teachers teach students to be global citizens. " by Dean Shareski

UK believes schools ought to embrace social technologies and use the opportunity to teach best practices.  Thoughts?

""We're reaching the point where schools should be teaching best practice for social media, right from primary school age, and the importance of protecting their images and information online," says Darabi."

I am not sure that primary students can appreciate that what is placed into the cyber sphere, it may well be there always and the importance of this.

This article teaches parents what to do about online bullying.

" When do you need to think about fair use? Some example situations: Uploading materials to CourseWorks or another server. Clipping and copying materials into innovative teaching tools. Posting materials for distance learning. Developing databases of copyrighted works for research. Sharing articles and other materials with colleagues. Developing digital libraries. Placing copies on library reserves." this tells you about when you need to think about fair use while doing something for school, work, or a project.

Grimes, a internet awareness specialist, has a point! Many careless teens are going on sites such as Facebook and putting things up on the site they aren't going to be able to fix when they decide they regret in! These teens are making careless mistakes that could effect how their life turns out in the future! We need to be careful about what we put on the internet! Being your child's friend on Facebook allows you to view what you need to see without breaking trust with you children! Its a win for both! Quote: "The best thing we can do is teach our kids what the pitfalls are," he explained during his Internet Awareness presentation. "What your kid posts at 15, it is going be searchable when they are 25, 35. Our kids are making mistakes for the whole world to see." "Grimes advised parents to be their child's "friend" on Facebook(NOTview through their child's page, because that would show lack of trust in your children) and see what they are posting online =. Parents should look at their child's "friend" list and find out how many are actually known and not claiming to a friend of a friend. When children are young, they are told not to talk to strangers, however with social networking the warning does not always get followed. " "Cyber Bullying is not a technology problem, it often involves friends or former friends hurting one another. He described Cyber Bullying as a small version of what terrorists do - try to alter lifestyles - in these cases those of individuals or a small group."

Tom Grimes told parents the Internet and social networking can be wonderful tools but they must be used wisely and their children probably do not understand how to do that and it can put them at risk. "The best thing we can do is teach our kids what the pitfalls are," he explained during his Internet Awareness presentation.

This is an example of a school that is using technology to better their learning ability.

Adults are not the only people that get on the internet. Young children do also and they need to know about all the stuff that goes on. This page will teach them about cyberbullying,peer pressure, and how to have self control.

This page has fun and safe games for children. It is a very fun website for kids because it teaches them internet safety and they get to play games.

Knowing how to set you privacy settings and where to set them is important. This website teaches you how to set your privacty settings and where to set them. It is very helpful to parents who want their children to be safe while surfing the internet. Quote: 'Being a parent is hard enough. The Internet has taken parents' responsibility to a whole new level.'

"Drill Down: Gaming in Education" Over half the students at the middle school level believe that using games to go along with a concept could help them learn easier and faster. Virtual world environments provide benefits for teaching and learning. Look at these statistics! About six out of 10 middle school students think the use of games would help them understand difficult concepts. Greater engagement in subject matter is gaming's most widely seen benefit among high school students. At both the middle school and high school levels, connecting the real world to the subject matter received the fewest responses.

This video is about a young girl who wants to teach other kids her age about internet safety. Even young children are on the web at this day in age. They should know what they are allowed to do.

The National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) has posted some new posters and lesson plans for K-12

The national Speak Up survey just opened on October 10, 2011.  This survey, developed by Project Tomorrow, provides a critical opportunity for local stakeholder voices - students, teachers, parents, administrators, and technology leaders - to directly impact national efforts to promote positive, effective use of technology to transform teaching and learning!  By participating, there will be targeted data made available to develop programs and initiatives that improve our ability to prepare students for the world they live in today. 

About a mom teaching her kids how to be globally aware and other people, also she uses a podcast.