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Welcome to Session 6! 

Tonight we will talk about the risks involved with online communication and begin work on your group projects.

 

Group Project

This project is intended to give participants in the Internet Safety course an opportunity to engage in at least one in-depth learning experience.

Groups must choose, at least, one of the following topics:

 

Cyber Harassment

Online Bullying and Stalking: focus on definitions of “rules,” “laws,” and “consequences” to victim and perpetrator. Develop a school anti-cyber bullying policy. Host an informative presentation in class.

 

Online Relationships

Focus on the concept of willing participation in online relationships with strangers and the roles that predators play. Develop a strategy to gather data for dealing with Internet Issues and concerns from the school population. Host an informative presentation in class.

Legal Trends in Internet Safety

Focus on the current legal trends concerning the Internet. Write a model letter to a policy maker concerning a legal cyber security/safety issue. Host an informative presentation in class.

 

Culture of the Internet and Online Freedoms

Focus on Internet-related laws in the United States and how other countries compare. Host a presentation for adults about Internet safety issues.

 

Pornography on the Web

Focus on the problems associated with the ease of access to pornography on the Internet. Host a presentation to teach K-12 students about harms of pornography.

 

Cyber Citizenship

Focus on hacking and hactivism, steganography, potentials of terrorist use of the Internet, and associated legal consequences. Host a presentation on techniques to protect computers from external threats.

 

Discussion Document Information:

 

Using the lists of social networking and internet communications (the lists that you created discussion documents 1 and 2) combined with the readings from our book, the articles posted in previous sessions and our discussions in class; create a discussion docuement on your wiki page where you will summarize the risks involved for children using the internet. 

     I would like you to place this summary on your personal wiki page as Discussion Document 3: Summary of Risks.  Here is what I'm looking for, a few paragraphs that summarize the risks involved for students using internet resources.  Please focus your discussion on the age groups that you teach, but you may touch on the risks involved for students in other age ranges.  What this discussion document does for us is helps us wrap the ideas that we have covered so far about Cyberstalking, social networking and internet communication into a few paragraphs of thought and reflection.  Include some strategies for helping students and parents stay protected while using the internet.

 

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