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The UNICEF Innocenti report on Child Safety Online shows that countries that have guidelines for social workers related to online child safety often have separate guidelines for law enforcement agencies, but lack a structured mechanism for the reporting of online abuse, referrals and coordinated actions. As mentioned above, there is still a need to strike the balance in policy between protection from all forms of violence, sexual abuse and exploitation, and the rights to information, freedom of expression and association, privacy and non-discrimination

Cyber safety and ethics in schools.

a Universal Service Discount for technology ("E-rate"), public schools and libraries must have an Internet Safety Policy that includes a "technology protection measure that filters or blocks visual images that are obscene; child pornography; or "harmful to minors", which are generally defined as "depictions of nudity and sexual activity that lack artistic, literary, or scientific value".

This article examines the risk to students on the internet. It talks about adult content, cyberbullying sexual harassment, online gambling etc. and the safety issues that go along with these topics. There was a study done that logged data to see if student preferred web sites were to understand whether students can visit web sites which contain unsafe material bypassing the computer-supported security policies and to see which types of web locations contain unsafe content.

Researchers have suggested that public school Internet use policies are not aligned with the realities of the 21st century, thus contributing to a culture where Internet technology is fully integrated in students' out-of-school experiences, but marginalized within the school walls .

Solutions for designing for inclusiveness and safety in the metaverse.

Although it's based out of Taiwan, this study used performance standards created by the International Society for Technology in Education and looks at six subscales for technology integration in the classroom with one of them being an ethical piece. The established scale examines the existing concerns for technology, pedagogy and professional development at once with a new addition of ethical and safety issues, which demand growing attention in teachers of future generation.

The conflict between keeping students safe and interfering with educations. Explains the CIPA act but also how some inappropriate content still comes through the filters. Some schools use a variety of methods to prevent the dangers of the web from infiltrating the classroom, including acceptable use policies, internet filtering software or a combination of both.

This article looks at how parental guidance can reinforce digital etiquette and safety for children and teens with regard to technology use. The results supported that teens developed better digital citizenship with the direction of parents in higher economics circumstances.

Ten guidelines of computer ethics, online resources for teaching ethics and Internet safety, and eight tips for establishing a "culture of proper use" of technology in the classroom!

"The impact of bullying in all forms on the mental health and safety of adolescents is of particular interest, especially in the wake of new methods of bullying that victimize youths through technology. The current study examined the relationship between victimization from both physical and cyber bullying and adolescent suicidal behavior. Violent behavior, substance use, and unsafe sexual behavior were tested as mediators between two forms of bullying, cyber and physical, and suicidal behavior...."