This website serves as a clearinghouse of information concerning the ways adolescents use and misuse technology. It is intended to be a resource for parents, educators, mental health professionals, law enforcement officers, counselors, and others who work with youth (as well as for youth themselves!). Here you will find facts, figures, and detailed stories from those who have been directly impacted by online aggression. In addition, the site includes numerous resources to help you prevent and respond to cyberbullying incidents. All of the information on this site is informed by over fifteen years of research.

Students work to create a new original composition using ‘samples'’ or snippets of other students' work. Students create a consent form to collect permission from the original creators of each sample. After choosing which instrument to perform the finished composition on, and practicing, students perform the finished product for the class. A possible extension could be to include opportunities for student collaboration in the form of revisions and edits.

This is the first epiode from the ActiVAtED Learning Podcast series featuring renowned Blended Learning author and educator, Catlin Tucker.

The goal of FBI-SOS is to promote cyber citizenship and help students learn about online safety while engaging in fun, interactive games. The program was designed to address current Internet safety threats while keeping each grade level's online usage and knowledge in mind. We hope that you find the program beneficial and that your students use the information to make themselves safer digital citizens.

To make the most of the Internet, kids need to be prepared to make smart decisions. Be Internet Awesome empowers kids with tools and education to confidently and safely explore, grow, and play online. Kids can play their way to being Internet Awesome with Interland, an online adventure that puts the key lessons of digital safety into hands-on practice with four challenging games.

Teach and learn practical digital skills needed for the jobs of today and tomorrow with our video lessons that are free of charge.

To promote creative expression and give students experience with the basic idea of copyright.
To introduce the concept of fair use.

To give students an experience that helps them understand the challenges and benefits of
respecting ownership and copyright, particularly in digital environments

To encourage students to respect artists’ rights as an important part of being an ethical digital citizen

To explore the concept of fair use

To help students understand how to interact with the creative work all around them.
To give students an experience identifying copyrighted works.
To introduce students to Creative Commons for finding creative work.
To encourage students to respect artists’ rights as an important part of being an ethical digital citizen.

Provides kids with information about digital citizenship, cyberbullying, and avoiding online risks so that they can safely socialize online.

Offers a free, 14-module curriculum that educates youth ages 10-20 on alternatives to running away, unsafe behaviors, and how to build life skills that can resolve problems. It includes the module "Internet Safety and Fun," which provides youth with tools for safe online behavior.

The intent of these resources is to support teachers in implementing digital literacy into their teaching practice and to help them to develop digital literacy lessons and activities that suit their students' needs.

Bring the Monsters to your classroom!

NAMLE and Makefully are excited to present the Media Monsters Media Literacy Lesson Plan for Grades 3|4|5! Educators can use this plan to inspire relevant, rich, and age appropriate discussion in their classrooms about how we all consume and interact with different types of media. Students will begin to identify, reflect and recognize behaviors and media practices in themselves, and identify the media literacy skills needed to improve the ways they engage with media and think critically about the media messages around them.

NetSafe Utah provides online videos and resources for kids, teens, parents and educators, including Internet Safety information that Utah schools need to meet the Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) requirements.

This is a pilot – a test – with Ruff Ruffman videos looking at the red-hot topic of how kids can and should use media and technology. Our first videos focus on texting, sharing photographs, using search, and finding an appropriate balance of technology use.

This is a resource that is used to explain the appropriate use of Social Media for students.

Welcome to Social Media TestDrive, an educational program for teaching digital citizenship skills and online prosocial behaviors! TestDrive prepares young people for real-life experiences in the digital world through learning and practicing within a realistic social media simulation.