The issue of cyber safety

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We continue this week looking at the issues associated with safety and delve further into the issue of cyber safety. As teachers, we have a responsibility to ensure our students are equipped with the skills and awareness of safe practices online. Additionally, you will also be exploring a great online tool, Canva, which hopefully you will see as a useful tool for your future teaching.

Primary Educations

By the middle to upper primary, most of today’s young people are fully fledged internet users. The following paper concludes that there is a “…need for school-based digital learning to move beyond the protectionist discourse of cyber safety in order to address the challenges and opportunities pre-teens face through their everyday use of digital media” (p.62).

  • What is your opinion of this statement?

 

Pangrazio L, Gaibisso LC. Beyond cybersafety: The need to develop social media literacies in pre-teens. Digital education review. 2020;(37):49-63. doi:10.1344/DER.2020.37.49-63