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Internet Safety Plan for Sophomore Year: Navigating Risks and Responsibilities in 21st Century Communication

Equip students with essential knowledge on identifying online risks, dangers, and ethical responsibilities, including cyber-smart practices, social networking use, sexting implications, and cyberbullying awareness. Learn about safe and responsible internet usage, recognize red flags, and make informed decisions to protect personal and community reputation.

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Internet Safety Plan for Sophomore Year: Navigating Risks and Responsibilities in 21st Century Communication

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  1. Internet Safety Plan Sophomore Year

  2. Essential Questions • How will I know what risks I am exposing myself to when I make decisions online? • How will I be able to identify those who mean to do harm to me? • Am I as cyber-smart as I think I am? • What are the downsides of the freedoms presented to me by the cyber-world? • What are my moral and ethical responsibilities in this society

  3. 21st Century Communication • Social networking sites and digital handheld devices (cell phones, PDA’s) allow the user to: • Express themselves • Describe who they are and their interests, • Maintain blogs, diaries, photos, creative writing, artwork, videos, • Connect (and close the gap) with friends, family and seek like-minded individuals.

  4. Sexting • Defined: “the act of sending sexually explicit messages or photos electronically, primarily between cell phones.” • Implications: Prank or Pornography? • School • Legal • Beyond What You Have Considered http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mEky0KdHPk (VIEW FIRST) http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=7080436 http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4723169n&tag=related;photovideo

  5. Social Networking Tools Defined: • A blog (a contraction of the term "Web log") is a Web site, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. • A wikiis a page or collection of web pages designed to enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or modify content, using a simplified markup language. • Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read other users' updates (otherwise known as tweets), which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length. • Instant messaging (IM) are technologies that create the possibility of real-time text-based communication between two or more participants over the internet.

  6. Safe and Responsible Use • Use versus Misuse (Freedoms vs. Downsides). • False sense of security (would you do it in public?) • “Tagged Photos” across the Internet • Online footprint tracking…years from now • Personal, Community and Family Reputation (s) • Athletic and Activity Code Violations How do you think your online activities will affect the future? REGRET IT!

  7. Teens as Targets • 66% were female; 34 % were male • 97% of offenders were people youth first "met" online • 65% of incidents happened in chatrooms • 24% in Instant Messages Play ID the Creep

  8. Cyberbulling • Defined: “the use of e-mail, instant messaging, chat rooms, pagers, cell phones, or other forms of information technology to deliberately harass, threaten, or intimidate someone.” • “Broken Friendship” • Quiz: Are You a Cyberbully? Online Resource: CyberTipline

  9. Essential Questions • How will I know what risks I am exposing myself to when I make decisions online? • How will I be able to identify those who mean to do harm to me? • Am I as cyber-smart as I think I am? • What are the downsides of the freedoms presented to me by the cyber-world? • What are my moral and ethical responsibilities in this society

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