Along with parents, teachers have or should have a determining role in children’s and adolescents’ lives. They need to become more involved in on-line interests of their pupils / students so as to better understand the youngsters and be able to identify and, later on, encourage the strong and unique features of each generation.
Tips for Teachers:
- Talk to students in order to find out what their interests and needs are regarding their social and personal lives;
- Make sure you know and understand what filters are installed in your school and discuss with your students/pupils why these safety measures are so important for the school and for them as persons;
- Involve them in online activities, using the computer as a didactic tool for diverse teaching purposes; place great value and praise on any student that uses the computer and Internet for proactive and interesting reasons;
- Encourage students/pupils to use and download legit application and make them realize the importance of copyrights;
- Closely supervise students’ activities in front of the PC: if they turn off the PC, quickly change windows, or laugh while in groups in lab hours, then you should look for inappropriate sites;
- Tell your students that not everything they see or hear on the internet is true – and that the information people give away about themselves are not always trustworthy and that ill-intentioned individuals could use a great variety of methods to mislead credulous PC users for lucrative purposes;
- Explain your students and pupils why they shouldn't accept to meet people they don’t know and why it is so important to always discuss about this proposals with adults they trust;
- Involve parents in students’ school activities; they are definitely extremely interested in taking the right precautions to protect their children from cyber criminals;
- Put parents and children in contact with the authorities directly involved with protecting children from illegal activities – pornography, drugs, data theft.
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