This website, by Common Sense Media, provides free materials and curricula around Internet Safety. Parents, teachers and others can access this website and get their free Internet Survival Guide for Parents. Common Sense Media will be offering a free curriculum to public schools in New York City and Omaha in the fall. Other school districts are considering its adoption, including Denver, the District of Columbia, Florida, Los Angeles, Maine and Virginia.
The Internet Survival Guide for Parents is available now by going to their website.
(Please see previous posting about our Internet Safety forum on May 3 at Lowell High School. For more information on this event, please contact Roxane Howe at rhowe@lhs.lowell.k12.ma.us)
The New York Times today has an interesting article that discusses Harvard's Howard Gardner's research around internet usage among kids. With the advent of the "Smartphone," more and more students are finding the internet readily available and "online" as much as 7 hours a day.
The New York Times article can be found here. If you do read the article, please consider subscribing to the New York Times.
Lowell Public Schools Instructional Technology Specialists are reviewing the Internet Survival Guide for Parents now. For more information about what your child's school is doing in the area of Internet Safety, please contact Anne Sheehy at asheehy@lowell.k12.ma.us.
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