When planning, school leaders shall include digital citizenship into the school division’s broader goals, especially in the areas of safe and responsible use of social networking websites, including the advantages of social media use, as well as the potential harms including addiction, publication of misinformation, negative effects on mental health, and the permanent nature of content created on social media.
Provides students with information about digital citizenship, cyberbullying, and avoiding online risks so that they can safely socialize online.
Provides kids with information about digital citizenship, cyberbullying, and avoiding online risks so that they can safely socialize online.
A quick guide for parents and educators about the issues with internet pornography and its harm to children.
This is a resource on the 5Ws of Livestreaming.
Provides students with tips for online safety as well as a live chat and welcoming environment to engage information about and receive help in developing healthy relationships and personal safety.
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.
Offers quiz that helps students assess the impact of their personal social media habits.
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.
Lists healthy relationships and sex conversation starters for health care providers, counselors, social workers, mentors, and other adults who work with Muslim high school and college-aged youth. Students can also use the card to help their friends and consider cultural and religious factors in their decision-making.
This is a resource that describes the 5 Ws of Online Enticement.
“Into the Cloud” is an animated digital safety web series intended for children ages
10 and under. Season 1 focuses on issues including cyberbullying, online privacy,
online distractions, misleading information, and inappropriate online behavior.
Season 2 tackles livestreaming and gaming and dives deeper into the issue of inappropriate
online behavior and the potential consequences and dangers lurking online.
The following activities are meant to be led by mature middle and high school students acting in a
mentorship role with a younger student. They are best practiced in a 1:1 or small group setting. This format
fosters closer relationship building between the students and their mentors and encourages more honest and
open conversations.
Facilitating these activities with younger children may count towards community or school service hours,
check with your program coordinator for more information. Each activity may take between 30 minutes and
1 hour.
NOTE: Activities marked with Ages 8+ are best conducted with children who are at least 8 years old.
All videos are available on YouTube or on the kid-safe site NetSmartzKids.org/videos.
Cyber S.W.A.T. is a peer-to-peer program designed to educate youth about online safety. Program facilitators use the provided curriculum and activities to help facilitate tough conversations about bullying, online predators, and other online risks. The peer mentors then reach out to other school-aged students to share what they’ve learned and present projects they have created to tell real stories about online safety and online risks.
This is a resource for students that describes sharing information appropriately.
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.
When adults respond quickly and consistently to bullying behavior they send the message that it is not acceptable. Research shows this can stop bullying behavior over time.
Parents, school staff, and other adults in the community can help kids prevent bullying by talking about it, building a safe school environment, and creating a community-wide bullying prevention strategy.
TeachersFirst is an online community for teachers by teachers. With thousands of lessons, units, and reviewed web resources for K-12 classroom teachers, our website is designed to enrich teaching and learning for both teachers and their students.
Each episode consists of:
A short three-minute animated video
A conversation guide to support teachers/parents (It’s basically a Q&A for kids)
A Kahoot! Quiz to reinforce the learning
A popular and fun activity sheet| a great homework activity to engage all the family at home.