Cyber Savvy

Embracing Digital Safety and Civility
Cyber Savvy
December 2011 | 176 pages | Corwin
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How to teach students online safety and citizenship

Concerns about children's online safety have evolved from protecting them to focusing on encouraging positive social norms, transmitting effective skills, and encouraging students to be helpful allies. In fact, federal law now requires schools that receive funding to educate students about cyber safety. Nancy Willard integrates her expertise in risk prevention, law, and education to provide a collaborative process for teaching secondary students media literacy, safety, and "netiquette." She lays out the steps for school staff to team up with students to build an effective program that will teach young people how to:

  • Keep themselves safe
  • Disclose and consume information wisely
  • Respect the rights, privacy, and property of others
  • Take responsibility for others' well-being when needed
  • Respond to inappropriate or dangerous situations

The author's companion website provides access to surveys, stories, and news articles that spark student discussions and support the book's activities. Cyber Savvy will show you how to turn techno panic into techno power!

Contents

About the Author

About the Author

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

Preface

Preface

I. Teaching Digital Safety & Citizenship

  • 1. Let Them Teach Each Other to Swim
  • 2. Making Positive Choices Online
  • 3. The Dangers of Techno-Panic
  • 4. Targeted Youth Risk Online Prevention & Intervention
  • 5. Law Enforcement Officers as Instructors
  • 6. School Staff Online
  • 7. Providing Parent Guidance

II. Digital Safety and Citizenship Issues

  • 8. Cyber Safe Kids
  • 9. Avoid the Impulse - Remember What You Do Reflects on You
  • 10. Read With Your Eyes Open - Assess the Credibility of Information
  • 11. Keep Your Life in Balance - Avoid Addictive Use
  • 12. Think Before You Post - Protect Your Reputation & Respect Others
  • 13. Connect Safely - Interact Safely With Others Online
  • 14. Keep Yourself Secure - Implement Security & Avoid Scams
  • 15. Abide by the Terms - Act in Accord with Laws, Policies, & Terms
  • 16. Stay Out of the Garbage - Avoid Objectionable & Illegal Material
  • 17. Don’t Sell Yourself - Disclose & Consume Wisely
  • 18. Protect Your Face & Friends - Be a Savvy & Civil When Networking
  • 19. Embrace Civility - Prevent Hurtful Digital Communications
  • 20. Cyberdate Safely - Avoid Exploitation & Abusive Relationships

Index

Index

Description

How to teach students online safety and citizenship

Concerns about children's online safety have evolved from protecting them to focusing on encouraging positive social norms, transmitting effective skills, and encouraging students to be helpful allies. In fact, federal law now requires schools that receive funding to educate students about cyber safety. Nancy Willard integrates her expertise in risk prevention, law, and education to provide a collaborative process for teaching secondary students media literacy, safety, and "netiquette." She lays out the steps for school staff to team up with students to build an effective program that will teach young people how to:

  • Keep themselves safe
  • Disclose and consume information wisely
  • Respect the rights, privacy, and property of others
  • Take responsibility for others' well-being when needed
  • Respond to inappropriate or dangerous situations

The author's companion website provides access to surveys, stories, and news articles that spark student discussions and support the book's activities. Cyber Savvy will show you how to turn techno panic into techno power!

Contents

About the Author

About the Author

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

Preface

Preface

I. Teaching Digital Safety & Citizenship

  • 1. Let Them Teach Each Other to Swim
  • 2. Making Positive Choices Online
  • 3. The Dangers of Techno-Panic
  • 4. Targeted Youth Risk Online Prevention & Intervention
  • 5. Law Enforcement Officers as Instructors
  • 6. School Staff Online
  • 7. Providing Parent Guidance

II. Digital Safety and Citizenship Issues

  • 8. Cyber Safe Kids
  • 9. Avoid the Impulse - Remember What You Do Reflects on You
  • 10. Read With Your Eyes Open - Assess the Credibility of Information
  • 11. Keep Your Life in Balance - Avoid Addictive Use
  • 12. Think Before You Post - Protect Your Reputation & Respect Others
  • 13. Connect Safely - Interact Safely With Others Online
  • 14. Keep Yourself Secure - Implement Security & Avoid Scams
  • 15. Abide by the Terms - Act in Accord with Laws, Policies, & Terms
  • 16. Stay Out of the Garbage - Avoid Objectionable & Illegal Material
  • 17. Don’t Sell Yourself - Disclose & Consume Wisely
  • 18. Protect Your Face & Friends - Be a Savvy & Civil When Networking
  • 19. Embrace Civility - Prevent Hurtful Digital Communications
  • 20. Cyberdate Safely - Avoid Exploitation & Abusive Relationships

Index

Index

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Cyber Savvy

Embracing Digital Safety and Civility


December 2011 | 176 pages | Corwin

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How to teach students online safety and citizenship

Concerns about children's online safety have evolved from protecting them to focusing on encouraging positive social norms, transmitting effective skills, and encouraging students to be helpful allies. In fact, federal law now requires schools that receive funding to educate students about cyber safety. Nancy Willard integrates her expertise in risk prevention, law, and education to provide a collaborative process for teaching secondary students media literacy, safety, and "netiquette." She lays out the steps for school staff to team up with students to build an effective program that will teach young people how to:

  • Keep themselves safe
  • Disclose and consume information wisely
  • Respect the rights, privacy, and property of others
  • Take responsibility for others' well-being when needed
  • Respond to inappropriate or dangerous situations

The author's companion website provides access to surveys, stories, and news articles that spark student discussions and support the book's activities. Cyber Savvy will show you how to turn techno panic into techno power!


Table Of Contents:

  • About the Author
  • Acknowledgments
  • Preface
  • I. Teaching Digital Safety & Citizenship
  • 1. Let Them Teach Each Other to Swim
  • 2. Making Positive Choices Online
  • 3. The Dangers of Techno-Panic
  • 4. Targeted Youth Risk Online Prevention & Intervention
  • 5. Law Enforcement Officers as Instructors
  • 6. School Staff Online
  • 7. Providing Parent Guidance
  • II. Digital Safety and Citizenship Issues
  • 8. Cyber Safe Kids
  • 9. Avoid the Impulse - Remember What You Do Reflects on You
  • 10. Read With Your Eyes Open - Assess the Credibility of Information
  • 11. Keep Your Life in Balance - Avoid Addictive Use
  • 12. Think Before You Post - Protect Your Reputation & Respect Others
  • 13. Connect Safely - Interact Safely With Others Online
  • 14. Keep Yourself Secure - Implement Security & Avoid Scams
  • 15. Abide by the Terms - Act in Accord with Laws, Policies, & Terms
  • 16. Stay Out of the Garbage - Avoid Objectionable & Illegal Material
  • 17. Don’t Sell Yourself - Disclose & Consume Wisely
  • 18. Protect Your Face & Friends - Be a Savvy & Civil When Networking
  • 19. Embrace Civility - Prevent Hurtful Digital Communications
  • 20. Cyberdate Safely - Avoid Exploitation & Abusive Relationships
  • Index

Recent Product Reviews:

"This well-researched and documented book is laid out for easy reading and understanding of often complex materials and sensitive subjects."
Sara Marcus, Web Librarian, Queensborough Community College, New York
"This book will help educators teach their students media literacy, safety, and 'netiquette.' Willard's expertise in risk prevention, law and education provides educators with the tools fo build an effective program for teaching students online safety and citizenship."
Courtney Williams
“As the clear, informed, expert voice on cyberbullying, Nancy Willard shows how to make informed decisions that reflect reality. Her work is inspiring and extremely important to the national debate about digital citizenship.”
Jason Ohler, Professor Emeritus and Author, University of Alaska, Juneau
"This book's approach is both interesting and outside the common tactics used by many schools to address cyber-citizenship issues. Instead of issuing mass edicts for school districts that will 'protect' students and staff by preventing access to valuable online information, Nancy Willard has developed a balanced methodology around making wiser choices and stronger long-term decisions."
Christopher Wells, Director of IT Policies and Communications, Gwinnett County Public Schools, Suwanee, GA
"Willard provides the reader with a critical understanding of why we need a more effective approach to teaching teens about Internet safety and citizenship. The guidelines and strategies she describes make the reader believe that implementation of a more effective, Cyber Savvy approach is not only feasible, but easily accomplished."
Aimée M. Bissonette, JD, Little Buffalo Law & Consulting, Richfield, MN

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