CYBER SAFETY MEETING
Cyber Safety Meeting—Wednesday, November 29, 2017
The Internet and World Wide Web is an integral and routine part of instruction in our classrooms throughout the school day and most students also use these resources at home. Additionally, we know that some of our upper elementary aged students are using social media (even though the guidelines for these platforms state that users must be 13 years or older). In order to teach them about the appropriate and ethical uses of these resources, library teachers and instructional technology specialists partner with classroom teachers to instruct students about Cyber Safety. The lessons are constantly revised to accommodate the quickly changing world of technology.
Each year we have an incident or two where children misuse technology by either accessing another student’s account or by posting or sharing content that is hurtful to a peer. We use these unfortunate incidents as a window for teaching as we firmly believe that all mistakes are opportunities for learning. In most cases, the inappropriate use of technology occurs outside of school hours, so it is important for parents and teachers to partner in helping educate the children to keep them safe and to prevent incidents that may be harmful to their social emotional health. With this important goal in mind, I invite you to join me and Burr librarian, Ms. Patino and technology specialist, Ms. Vancans, for an informational session on CyberSafety and preventing Cyber Bullying. This session will be held in the Burr Cafetorium on November 29th at 7:00 PM.
The session is most important for the parents of 4th and 5th graders, but all are welcome. I look forward to seeing many of you there.
Each year we have an incident or two where children misuse technology by either accessing another student’s account or by posting or sharing content that is hurtful to a peer. We use these unfortunate incidents as a window for teaching as we firmly believe that all mistakes are opportunities for learning. In most cases, the inappropriate use of technology occurs outside of school hours, so it is important for parents and teachers to partner in helping educate the children to keep them safe and to prevent incidents that may be harmful to their social emotional health. With this important goal in mind, I invite you to join me and Burr librarian, Ms. Patino and technology specialist, Ms. Vancans, for an informational session on CyberSafety and preventing Cyber Bullying. This session will be held in the Burr Cafetorium on November 29th at 7:00 PM.
The session is most important for the parents of 4th and 5th graders, but all are welcome. I look forward to seeing many of you there.