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Students on the Internet

Students on the Internet

From the course: Teacher Tips

Students on the Internet

Hello, educators, and welcome to another week of Teacher Tips. This week, we're starting a two-week series that is all about internet safety. Specifically, we will explore the ideas of teaching proper internet use to our students. We're not going to talk about schools filtering content or how to monitor student internet use, those are school and district actions, we're going to focus on student actions and attempt to answer the question, are your students internet savvy. Well, what do I mean by internet savvy? Lets take a look at a few questions I like to ask my students in order to determine if they're internet savvy. For example, how can you determine if you are on a secure webpage before typing information? Or why is Wikipedia not considered a scholarly source? And one question that baffles most my students is: who can see your Facebook pictures, even if you have the highest security settings? Now before we dive into the teaching best practices of how we help our students become…

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