Keeping Our Students

Safe Online
Let's Educate Ourselves and our
Students About Online Safety
There are several programs we can use to
help educate one another on how to be more
safe online, here are a few: (REMS Technical
Assistance Center, n.d.)
-Stop.Think.Connect
-NetSmartz Workshop
-OnGuard Online Program
Be Open
Teachers who model safe and
appropriate internet behavior influence
their students to do the same. This
allows teachers and parents to see if
students are spending too much or too
little time on the internet and if they
are being exposed to content that is
Teach Students What it
unsafe. Allowing students to talk about
their internet habits without
Means to be a
judgement or punishment will tell us Responsible Digital
more about what they’re doing online Citizen
and how to better protect them An effective digital citizenship
(Prodigy, 2020). curriculum should include
topics such as privacy/security,
relationships/communication,
cyberbullying, digital drama,

digital footprints, reputation,

self-image, identity, information
literacy, and creative credit/
copyright (REMS Technical
Assistance Center, n.d.)
Statistics:

40 % of kids in grades 4-8 reported they connected or chatted

online with a stranger.
Out of those 40 percent
53 % revealed their phone number to a stranger

21% spoke by phone with a stranger

15% tried to meet with a stranger

11% met a stranger in their own home, the stranger’s home, a

park, mall or restaurant

30% texted a stranger from their phone

 Resources:
https://enough.org/stats_internet_safety

https://www.prodigygame.com/main-en/blog/keeping-
students-safe-online/

https://rems.ed.gov/docs/Cyber_Safety_K-
12_Fact_Sheet_508C.pdf

Olivia Drennan and Jylene Guaba