21st Century Learning and Teaching

Keeping students safe while online and using their phones is critical in modern education. Here's a teacher's guide that should help out.

Online gaming used to be an activity confined to dimly lit arcades, but it can now be enjoyed by anyone and everyone.

A MUST read for parents and teachers:

http://about-threats.trendmicro.com/ebooks/keep-your-children-safe-online/#/1/

SWGfL Staying Safe provides e-Safety information and resources for parents, schools and young people, whilst also presenting the latest e-Safety news.

Curriculum in a Nutshell 
Digital media and technology are evolving at a dizzying pace, bringing with them extraordinary opportunities as well as real risks for young people. Young people are using the immense power of the Internet and mobile technologies to explore, connect, create, and learn in ways never before imagined. These technologies have changed the pattern of social relationships, their construction, negotiation and scope. The concept of “friends” and friendship has changed with the boundaries of privacy changing and evolving. Issues that emerge with this 24/7 “connected culture” – from identity theft, to cyberbullying, to uncertainty about which information to trust online – are surfacing both in schools and at home.

SWGfL is providing this FREE Digital Literacy and Citizenship Curriculum to help educators empower their students and their school communities to be safe, responsible, and savvy as they navigate this fast-paced digital world. 

The curriculum:

- Introduces reliable, research-based information to students about digital media and their impact

- Helps pupils / students explore the complex issues of our connected culture

- Empowers pupils /students to think critically about the ways they use digital technologies as they build digital literacy skills for life

- Develops a resilience in pupils / students to act appropriately and safely in their use of digital technologies

European Commission - Press Release - European Commission MEMO Brussels, 20 November 2012 European Commission Vice President for the Digital Agenda Neelie Kroes and the U.S.

Digital Agenda: EU and US sign joint declaration to make the internet safer for kids

European Commission Vice President for the Digital Agenda Neelie Kroes and the U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano have today signed a Joint Declaration in London, committing to make the Internet a safer and better place for children.

In the Declaration, Vice President Kroes and Secretary Napolitano:

- agree to implement joint campaigns on the occasion of an annual Safer Internet Day. As a first step, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security intends to participate in the EU’s Safer Internet Day for young people on February 5, 2013.

- commit to contribute to international cooperation in fighting child sexual abuse online in the immediate future. This will build on existing work by the Virtual Global Taskforce and Interpol on law enforcement collaboration to combat child sexual abuse worldwide. International cooperation is essential if we are to be effective in fighting child sexual abuse online.

- acknowledge that parents and guardians need to trust the content and services their children access and commit to continue working with industry and other stakeholders so that parents and children can make informed choices online.
This declaration complements other European Commission initiatives to keep children save and confident in the digital world. These include the EU Strategy for a safer internet and better internet content for children and teenagers presented earlier this year (see IP/12/445) and a Commission-brokered coalition of top tech & media companies to make the internet a better place for our kids. see IP/11/1485)

Read more, a MUST:

http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_MEMO-12-881_en.htm