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10 Things Your Students Should Know About Their Digital Footprints | TeachHUB

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Building a digital legacy is an issue I believe doesn't garner enough attention in our personal and professional lives. In fact, some of the heaviest users of online tools and social media, are our young students, who are growing up as a generation of visual learners and visual attention seekers. This is in fact the Facebook and YouTube generation, and the reality is that many teens are unconcerned about the dangers of sharing personal information online.

A highly respected education advocate, Kevin Honeycutt, once asked me if any of us from our generation (GenX and before), had ever made a mistake in puberty. He then asked if our mistakes are "Googleable."

The reality is that our mistakes from puberty are not "Googleable". But our students' mistakes are. "They're on the record you see, " Kevin continued, "so if they're gonna do it (live online) anyway, I think it behooves us as educators to help our students shape and build a positive legacy."

With that in mind, I have developed some important facts and opinions that our students should be completely aware of as they live in their digital world, creating digital footprints along the way.

10 Things Your Students Should Know About Their Digital Footprints

College admissions and employers do read your online profiles and they do make decisions based upon information they find out about you online. In fact, college's will make decisions based upon many forms of questionable involvement. Scott Cornwell, College and Career Adviser at Ladue Horton Watkins High School in St. Louis, Missouri said, "I had a case where a parent sent an email to a college suggesting they look at the Facebook page of a student who was applying to the same school as her daughter. The Facebook page showed the other student at a party with alcohol. The mother's goal was to get rid of some of the competition her daughter would have at this selective school. In the end, both the student at the party and the daughter of the mother were rejected (the first in part because of the Facebook page, the second because the college was concerned about dealing with such a manipulative mother for four years).

As illustrated in the example above, educators and parents do see, read, and hear about your online escapades, even though you go to great lengths to hide them from us. There have been many times I wish I hadn't stumbled upon a student Twitter or Facebook post, but I have. These experiences, which included foul language,cyberbullying, and basic immaturity, have only reinforced to me that digital citizenship needs to be taught in our schools as early as possible.

3.) Educate yourself on the basics. What does Digital Citizenship mean to you? What should it mean? These are important lessons that students can research on their own. However, wouldn't it be fantastic to offer some of this education in our schools as well?

Create a profile that says simple, non-specific details about yourself, but that is still identifiably you. Ultimately, we are all personally responsible for our digital reputation, but many of our students, and quite frankly many adults, don't know how to accomplish this important task.

5.) Create separate accounts so you can consistently remain positive in public online spaces. If you have already developed a full identity online, you don't necessarily need to " scrub it clean", but it would make sense to create a professional identity, and limit the amount of personal information you share publicly. Increase your privacy settings on all of your personal information, and publicly share all the wonderful things you are contributing to the world.

Learn from others. Find teenagers, professionals, or reputation resources who are doing things the right way and model your online presence in a similar manner. Read the surveys that have been conducted and make informative decisions on what personal material is appropriate to share publicly, and what is not.

Keep private information private. Have you heard the saying the " Internet is forever?" You may think you can easily hit delete, and what you sent goes away. But it truly doesn't. Be aware and learn why the Internet is permanent.

The Golden Rule. Never has this rule applied more than to how you speak to others online. What are you truly accomplishing by saying things behind the veil of a computer screen, that you would never say to someone in person? Treat others as you would like to be treated. Simply put, if you don't have something nice to say, don't say anything at all. Remember, you can't truly delete when you SEND.

9.) Don't be afraid to make a mistake, but be mindful that being careless, too open, too trusting, and realize spending too much time on the Internet, has real consequences.

Build your own positive image and brand yourself in a great way. I created a wonderful lesson for my class by asking them who they are as people, not as students. I then asked them to create a short video to show me who they are. It was a great success and I learned a lot about my students in a very positive way.

I hope you will find this information helpful. I would love to hear your feedback in the comments section.

Good luck!

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Building a digital legacy is an issue I believe doesn't garner enough attention in our personal and professional lives. In fact, some of the heaviest users of online tools and social media, are our young students, who are growing up as a generation of visual learners and visual attention seekers.

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Digital Citizenship Homeroom Activities - AHS Technology Integration

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Digital Citizenship Resources - The Digital Dog Pound

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VideoAmy explores the topic of digital citizenship with this playlist of videos on the importance of online safety, manners, privacy, and responsibility.

"Digital citizenship" is an umbrella term that covers a whole host of important issues. Broadly, it's the guidelines for responsible, appropriate behavior when one is using technology. But specifically, it can cover anything from "netiquette" to cyberbullying; technology access and the digital divide; online safety and privacy; copyright, plagiarism, and digital law, and more. In fact, some programs that teach digital citizenship have outlined no less than nine elements that intersect to inform a well-equipped digital citizen. It's an overwhelming array of skills to be taught and topics to explore.

But while there is much talk about the importance of teaching digital citizenship in this information society, not many are sure what that really looks like. What tools are out there for teaching it? And how in the world can teachers make time in an already overcrowded curriculum? This playlist is intended to offer tools to make the case that it's critical to teach this, and then launchpad videos to seed classroom discussions once you've carved out that precious time.

Video Playlist: Teaching Digital Citizenship

Watch the first video below, or watch the whole playlist on YouTube.

1. What is Digital Citizenship? (05:19)
This succinct video from BeCyberwise describes why digital citizenship is so important. Includes a clip of Howard Gardner speaking about his GoodPlay project and a peek at Common Sense Media's comprehensive Digital Citizenship curriculum.

2. Be a Digital Citizen (02:13)
Need a quick and simple clip to introduce the concept of digital citizenship to parents or students? This video gives some statistics about internet and social media usage and then describes the many ways in which we are all affected on a daily basis by our technology use.

3. Go Figure 2 -- Online Safety Version (04:15)
Produced by the international Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI), this animated video zips through a flurry of statistics about young people and online safety. It paints a powerful picture of how important it is to get these conversations started.

4. Out Of Your Hands (01:06)
Watch in dismay as an inappropriate photograph travels from one poor naive teen girl to an online stalker, ending with the admonition "Think before you post." This interactive series of videos was produced by public service announcement (PSA) veterans the Ad Council.

5. TEDxUIUC - Sherry Turkle - Alone Together (16:24)
Thought-provoking TED Talk by MIT professor Sherry Turkle, who has spent much of the last 30 years researching how people relate with technology. It's a long clip at sixteen minutes, but would make a fabulous discussion starter for a lesson on how we function in this culture of connectivity.

6. Digital Dossier (04:24)
This fascinating narrative follows the digital journey of the fictional "Andy" from pre-birth to adulthood by tracking his "digital footprint." It can be illuminating to stop and think about how much personal information we're putting out on the Web. Produced by the Digital Natives Project.

7. YouTube Digital Citizenship Curriculum (01:35)
Another option for free digital literacy curriculum is this one developed by Google and YouTube, who have strong motivations for training young people to be savvy tech users. If YouTube is blocked in your school, please do check out YouTube for Schools, a portal that allows your school to access white-listed educational YouTube content safely and securely.

8. Invasion of the Data Snatchers: How To Protect Your Online Privacy (04:02)
This animated video from Reputation.com manages to be at once cute and menacing. Though geared towards adults, it's a great wake-up call about online privacy issues, and although they're ultimately pushing a paid product, they have some good free resources and privacy protection tools.

9. Our Kids' Connected Culture - Overview for Parents and Teachers (05:56)
This is a great video from Common Sense Media. The MySpace references make it feel little dated, but the issues the teen girl is talking about are just as typical today. It's nice to hear directly from young people about their experiences, and there is a section of tips at the end that are really useful. Also worth watching: this video on their cyberbullying curriculum.

10. Digital Citizen (01:00)
Here's a great idea for a classroom project that teaches about copyright and usage issues while also exploring the themes of digital literacy: have kids create a slideshow video with Creative Commons images about the big questions of digital citizenship.

11. Netiquette - Playing Nice on the Internet (03:20)
Look past the slightly cheesy opening -- this video is a tidy roundup of the basics of good netiquette, something all of us could use a refresher on. Did you know the rules of netiquette pre-date the Web as we know it?

More Resources for Learning About Digital Citizenship

While we haven't solved the problem of finding time in the schedule to teach these essential topics, there is a wealth of great free resources to be found -- many of them aligned to standards, either the Common Core ELA standards, or ISTE's NETS, or both. Whatever the angle you'd like to focus on, you should be able to find some strong materials to supplement your work. Here's a list of resources, organizations, and reading materials to help you get started.

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VideoAmy explores the topic of digital citizenship with this playlist of videos on the importance of online safety, manners, privacy, and responsibility. "Digital citizenship" is an umbrella term that covers a whole host of important issues. Broadly, it's the guidelines for responsible, appropriate behavior when one is using technology.

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Recently, I was told by a teacher that she doesn't have time to teach digital citizenship because she has to cover too many other content-specific standards. I get it... the Common Core-state tests-AP/IB/SAT/ACT madness eats up so much of our time.

Still, there is no excuse for allowing students to enter into the digital world without a toolkit for not only safety but also success.

Beyond that, there is such a wide range of options for truly integrating digital citizenship objectives that the argument given by teachers who claim a lack of time is simply unfounded.

Here are a few ways we all can bring digital citizenship to our classrooms seamlessly.

Digital Teaching Tip 1: Use an LMS

Edmodo and Schoology are free learning management systems which provide teachers with platforms for discussions, resource sharing, grading, messaging and networking. More to point, however, they offer a school-oriented, safe, and age-appropriate space where students can learn how to connect through social media.

If students learn how to interact online from a strictly social platform first, say through their personal Facebook accounts, they have a disconnect between this type of interaction and learning and thus have to be reconditioned later to understand the learning value. Furthermore, they fail to understand that who we are online should be who we are in person.

If we introduce LMSes early on, we seize the opportunity to teach social interaction through the learning and identity lens first. If students are old enough to meet the requirements for using social media platforms such as Facebook, use that! It's where they live, so ...if we show them how to use the same technology to learn through a class group, they can see how their online and offline lives and selves are interconnected in a multidimensional way.

Digital Teaching Tip 2: Model Good Citizenship by Setting Age-Appropriate Expectations

Students under the Facebook age requirement of 13 should not be on Facebook, and there is a good reason for that beyond the fact that they would be breaking the rules.

Therefore, teachers should not encourage a class group to form on Facebook if students are under that age--yes, even if they already have an account. If we do so, we dismiss the rule and encourage a lack of respect and accountability to the community guidelines...the very opposite of encouraging citizenship.

Digital Teaching Tip 3: Connect and Collaborate

We all have networks outside of our geographic area, and chances are, we know someone who may have a class or know of a class that wants to connect. There are other options, however, such as using ePals or Skype in the Classroom to find partnerships.

Collaborating on language learning, historical perspective sharing, or service projects further the objective of broadening the definition of citizenship to include both global and digital awareness.

Digital Teaching Tip 4: Use Google Apps

I do not remember a time when such a wealth of resources was made available to teachers for FREE before now. Google Apps is another great example.

Students can create, share, publish, collaborate, and connect through the use of Google Apps for Education. Both Edmodo and Schoology are Google Apps integrated now, allowing for students and teachers to pull resources from their folders in Google Docs into the LMS platform to either create or submit work for grading.

Through the use of Google Apps, students learn how to collaborate with people online towards a shared goal, whether it's collaboration with others in a group or with a teacher for feedback. With people connecting and working with others they have never even met from all over the globe, teaching students how to do this is critical.

Another bonus is the ability to go paperless as students are easily able to receive, create, and submit work without ever opening a half-broken binder. Even if a school has not integrated Google Apps at the school level, teachers can still use the platform by helping students set up Gmail accounts if they don't already have them. It's absolutely amazing that this is available!

Digital Teaching Tip 5: Maintain Balance

Technology is so ubiquitous; we can hardly escape. As a result many teachers have become frustrated and taken the stance of banning it completely to preserve their space as a sort of sanctuary. On the other hand, we have teachers who have become so dedicated to using technology that they rarely offer students a chance to disconnect. Both are the wrong approach.

Just as students must learn how to interact safely and respectfully by watching us model such interaction, so too must they learn how to balance. Balance is a skill innate to a few but not to most; I believe it is learned. By showing our students when to be connected and when to be unplugged based on purpose, we model how this can look in their lives. Part of digital citizenship is understanding how to contribute to the online communities to which we belong while still contributing to our offline communities.

The very first thing we talk about when we discuss citizenship is the balance of rights and responsibilities. These rights and responsibilities are dictated by the communities we are a part of, including online communities. Expecting students to learn the nuances of online communities and the balance of rights and responsibilities within them solely by happenstance in their own social lives is tantamount to expecting children to learn how to serve, lead, and be nice without ever giving them a chance to be door-holder, class rep, or friend in school. Of course, that sounds absurd...and so it is.
Share your tips for integrating digital citizenship into your classroom in the comment section!

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Recently, I was told by a teacher that she doesn't have time to teach digital citizenship because she has to cover too many other content-specific standards. I get it... the Common Core-state tests-AP/IB/SAT/ACT madness eats up so much of our time.

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ISTE | Top 3 challenges of teaching digital citizenship

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To effectively teach with technology, educators must be able to set boundaries for appropriate use and help students take responsibility for their actions in the digital realm.

But in a world where technology changes faster than teachers can keep up, and students face different expectations for technology use at home than at school, many educators are struggling to develop a cohesive digital citizenship curriculum.

"It's like having a teacher education program without teaching teachers how to manage a classroom," said technology infusion and professional development coordinator LeeAnn Lindsey. "You can't do all the pedagogical things in a classroom that you want to be able to do if you don't know how to manage a classroom.

"Well, similarly with technology, we can teach teachers how to make learning engaging and effective using devices, but we really can only do that if the teachers and students have a foundation for using that technology responsibly so that we're keeping kids safe and we're keeping teachers safe."

Below, Lindsey explains the three biggest challenges of teaching digital citizenship.

Want to learn more about weaving digital citizenship into your curriculum? Collaborate with your peers in our Digital Citizenship Network and take our self-paced Digital Citizenship Academy.
Nicole Krueger is ISTE's inbound content strategist and lead blogger for the ISTE Connects blog. A former journalist, she has more than a decade of experience as a news reporter and professional blogger.

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Top 3 challenges of teaching digital citizenship

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To effectively teach with technology, educators must be able to set boundaries for appropriate use and help students take responsibility for their actions in the digital realm. But in a world where technology changes faster than teachers can keep up, and students face different expectations for technology use at home than at school, many educators are struggling to develop a cohesive digital citizenship curriculum.

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ISTE | Know the ISTE Standards for Teachers: Model digital citizenship

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Standard 4 of the ISTE Standards for Teachers focuses on the concept of digital citizenship. The past decade has seen an exponential increase in digital tools and opportunities, which carry the need for students to master a new set of life skills for behaving responsibly online. Even as they sit in their classrooms, they are able to connect with people across the globe instantaneously via chats, email, blogs, social media, virtual conferences, comments and more. This new capability brings great opportunity but also some risk. Many of these connections happen with strangers, who could potentially pose some of the same dangers as strangers they meet in the street. And the anonymous nature of the internet can make negative personal interactions, such as cyberbullying, even more likely.

Contrary to popular belief, however, digital natives don't pick up these skills through osmosis. It falls on parents and educators to teach them how. Just as a teacher would talk to students about etiquette and safety before they enter a public place on a school trip, so must they remind students of what's expected of them online.

Students are much more likely to understand good digital citizenship - the norms of appropriate, responsible technology use - when teachers model it on a regular basis. It is also important for all educators to spend time directly teaching and actively promoting digital citizenship. And keep in mind that it's not just one person's job to teach digital citizenship in a school, but everyone's shared responsibility.

The three social studies activities described in the table below are designed for students in grades 5-7. The objective of the lesson is to help students explore another culture and share traditions, events, customs and rituals from their own culture. There are different ways to address these objectives, but not all of them take advantage of the prime opportunity to promote and model digital citizenship.

Standard 4: Promote and model digital citizenship and responsibility. Teachers understand local and global societal issues and responsibilities in an evolving digital culture and exhibit legal and ethical behavior in their professional practices.

Activity 1: The teacher starts the lesson by using books and posters to present information about England. The students then write pen-pal letters to students in a class in England about their cultural traditions, events, customs, and rituals.

Activity 2: Using books and posters, the teacher starts the lesson by presenting information about England to the class. The teacher then has students use email to connect with British students. Teachers ask students to create a digital presentation, using the digital tool of their choice, to share cultural traditions, events, customs and rituals. The students develop their presentations in class time to ensure equitable access to all.

Activity 3: The teacher starts the lesson by showing the students a presentation about England that includes proper citations for sources and images. After meeting with a class from England on Skype, the teacher asks the students to use the safe email program ePals to connect with British students. The teacher then asks the students to create a digital presentation to share cultural traditions, events, customs and rituals, which they develop during class time to ensure equitable access to all.

Activity 1 shows no evidence of addressing Standard 4. To present information to the students about England, the teacher uses books and posters rather than digital resources. The students interact with the British students via the postal service, again missing the opportunity to engage with students of other cultures using digital age communication tools. Clearly, the teacher is neither modeling nor promoting good digital citizenship, since he doesn't even use digital tools.

In Activity 2, the teacher again starts with books and posters to present an overview of England to the students. This method does not exploit any digital tools to enable students to see more of the country and does not meet any of the indicators. The next part of the lesson, however, is more aligned to the standards. The teacher asks the students to use email to connect with their peers in England, and they can choose the digital tools they want to use to share more about their own cultures. The main component missing from Activity 2 is modeling of good digital citizenship.

Activity 3 meets all the indicators for this standard. The teacher begins the lesson by using technology to present information about England to the students. He models good digital citizenship by including citations for the images he uses. The teacher also promotes and models digital tools by using Skype with the whole class. Next, the teacher has the students use a safe internet program, such as ePals, that monitors activity between students to ensure that the interactions taking place are responsible. This gives students the opportunity to practice their digital etiquette in a secure environment. Ideally, the teacher would have already introduced this email program to the students in the context of a direct lesson about digital citizenship and responsible social interactions on the internet. Finally, the teacher lets the students choose which digital tool they would like to use to present their cultural traditions.
Elizabeth Leetch, an instructional assistant of special education at Captain John Smith Elementary in Hampton, Virginia, assisted in writing this article. Helen Crompton is an assistant professor of instructional technology at Old Dominion University, Virginia. She is a researcher and educator in the field of instructional technology. She earned her Ph.D. in educational technology and mathematics education from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Know the ISTE Standards for Teachers: Model digital citizenship

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To meet the fourth ISTE Standard for Teachers, educators can't assume that their digital natives will automatically become good digital citizens. It falls on teachers to model good digital citizenship for their students and to actively promote the fine points of online safety, law, ethics and etiquette.

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ISTE | Infographic: Citizenship in the digital age

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There has never been a better time to be a young creator!

Free and low-cost digital tools allow students to write blogs, share their photos and art work on social media, create videos and develop a YouTube following, and collaborate on projects with peers around the world.

These are just a few of the ways today's young citizens - digital citizens - are taking advantage of the opportunities of living, learning and working in an interconnected digital world. But along with those opportunities come responsibilities. Students must learn to act and model behavior that is safe, legal and ethical.

The elements of digital citizenship, it turns out, are not so different from the basic tenets of traditional citizenship: Be kind, respectful and responsible, and participate in activities that make the world a better place.

Just as all kids throughout the centuries have needed help from their parents, teachers and mentors along the path to becoming good citizens, our digital natives need guidance as they learn how to apply the elements of citizenship to the realities they encounter in a connected world.

"As many educators know, most students want to do the right thing - and will, if they know what that is," said Mike Ribble, author ofDigital Citizenship in Schools and co-founder of the new Digital Citizenship Network. "Let's help them do great things with technology while avoiding the pitfalls."

Check out the infographic below to see how the characteristics of a good citizen parallel - and differ from - those of a good digital citizen.

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There has never been a better time to be a young creator! Free and low-cost digital tools allow students to write blogs, share their photos and art work on social media, create videos and develop a YouTube following, and collaborate on projects with peers around the world.

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ISTE | 3 ways to weave digital citizenship into your curriculum

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In the famous words of Spider-Man writer Stan Lee: With great power comes great responsibility.

Actually, Voltaire might have said it first. Or possibly Jesus.

The point is, if we're going to empower students to create and share online, we've also got to teach them how to responsibly wield the power of connectivity. When we don't, we end up with misattributed quotes like the one above - or worse. Cyberbullying, plagiarism and a detrimental digital footprint are just a few of the problems that can arise when kids treat the internet as an information free-for-all.

Every school approaches digital citizenship a bit differently. Many teach it as a separate unit, often as part of health or character education classes. While any amount of digital citizenship education is better than none, it's most effective when it's integrated into the curriculum across all grades so the message gets reinforced again and again.

"You want to create a positive culture in your school, so the more teachers who can address it across subjects and grade levels, the better," said Kelly Mendoza of Common Sense Media, which offers a free K-12 digital literacy and citizenship curriculum for educators, available online or as iBooks. "It has to be ongoing. You have to keep doing it and reminding your students."

Fortunately, in a classroom where students already use technology, it's a simple matter to incorporate a digital citizenship component into any lesson - all while meeting both the ISTE Standards and the Common Core. For example, teachers have the opportunity to address digital citizenship whenever students:
1. Create digital presentations
Anytime students create content to share online, teachers can supplement the lesson with an age-appropriate discussion about copyright and fair use. Mendoza suggests going beyond simply showing students how to properly cite ideas and images.

"Flip the tables on them. When they're creating and sharing their work with the world online, ask them: How do you want other people to use your work? Would you want other people to make a profit off it, share it or alter it? That's when it really hits home," she said.
2. Study historical figures or literary characters
Prompt students to think about how they present themselves online - and what it means to leave a digital footprint - by creating fake social media profiles for the characters they're studying in history or English classes.

"If Lincoln had a Twitter feed, what would he tweet? Get students to think about how these characters might present themselves online," Mendoza said. "Reframe social media to look at how the characters might have exemplified themselves in a digital world and how it might have impacted them."

Add another dimension to this activity by using characters that have two very distinct sides to their personalities, such as Jekyll and Hyde.

"It helps them think about how sometimes people present themselves online in a whole different way than they really are in person and why we might share things about ourselves that might not really be in line with who we are in person."
3. Research a project
If a project requires students to perform research online, help them develop information literacy skills by introducing effective search strategies and discussing how to determine whether a website is credible.

Want to learn more about weaving digital citizenship into your curriculum? Join our Digital Citizenship Network.

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In the famous words of Spider-Man writer Stan Lee: With great power comes great responsibility. Actually, Voltaire might have said it first. Or possibly Jesus. The point is, if we're going to empower students to create and share online, we've also got to teach them how to responsibly wield the power of connectivity.

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NSTeens.org - Making Safer Choices Online

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National Center for Missing & Exploited Children

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Since 1998, NCMEC has operated the CyberTipline, a place where the public and electronic service providers can report suspected online and offline child sexual exploitation. The millions of reports made each year uniquely situate NCMEC to identify trends and create prevention resources to address the evolving needs of kids and teens online.

NetSmartz is NCMEC's online safety education program. It provides age-appropriate videos and activities to help teach children be safer online with the goal of helping children to become more aware of potential online risks and empowering them to help prevent victimization by making safer choices on- and offline.

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Since 1998, NCMEC has operated the CyberTipline, a place where the public and electronic service providers can report suspected online and offline child sexual exploitation. The millions of reports made each year uniquely situate NCMEC to identify trends and create prevention resources to address the evolving needs of kids and teens online.