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Net Smart
April is Internet Safety month. I am very concerned about
how much time our children spend on line and with summer coming they could
spend more of their unstructured time online. The purpose of the Net Smart Unit
was to make Fifth and Sixth Grade students at HTRS Middle School aware of dangers online. Students visited the Net Smartz Kids web page
which is an interactive web site that uses shockwave. Students learn how to be
safe using the internet through activities such as videos, music, and by playing 3-D
learning games all dealing with internet safety.
The NetSmartz Workshop focus on these online safety rules.
- I will not share any personal
information ( name, age, sex, address, birthdate, etc.)
- I will tell an adult I trust
if anything makes me feel scared, uncomfortable, or confused.
- I won't meet in person with
anyone I have first "met" online.
On
Monday, April 16, 2007 fifth and sixth grade students participated in a special event where Mr. Gregg
Robke from ESU 4 presented on Internet Safety. He stressed the importance of
keeping personal information private. He suggested that students who have
webpages on myspace or facebook to keep them private and only allow people who
they know and trust to have access. He showed videos about real life people
being harassed and abducted through the use of the internet. He shared with
students how a predictor can take 1 piece of information and find out all about
you and where you live. Mr. Robke also informed students that what they put on
these pages may be on there forever and could affect them later in their adult
life.
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- 1 in 7
children who regularly use the Internet are asked to do things they find uncomfortable
- 1 in 11 are
harassed or threatened
- 31 percent
are asked to meet
- 79 percent
of meetings occur in the child's home
- 56 percent do not tell anyone about the meeting
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To finish up the unit, students created their own internet
safety posters
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