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Cyber Savvy - Book Cover Look Inside

Cyber Savvy

Embracing Digital Safety and Civility

The author integrates expertise in risk prevention, law, and education to provide a collaborative and positive process for teaching secondary students media literacy, safety, and “netiquette.”

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Cyber Savvy - Book Cover Look Inside
Product Details
  • Grade Level: 6-12
  • ISBN: 9781412996211
  • Published By: Corwin
  • Year: 2011
  • Page Count: 176
  • Publication date: December 05, 2011
Price: $35.95

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Description

Description

How to teach students online safety and citizenship

Concerns about children's online safety have evolved from protecting them to focusing on encouraging positive social norms, transmitting effective skills, and encouraging students to be helpful allies. In fact, federal law now requires schools that receive funding to educate students about cyber safety. Nancy Willard integrates her expertise in risk prevention, law, and education to provide a collaborative process for teaching secondary students media literacy, safety, and "netiquette." She lays out the steps for school staff to team up with students to build an effective program that will teach young people how to:

  • Keep themselves safe
  • Disclose and consume information wisely
  • Respect the rights, privacy, and property of others
  • Take responsibility for others' well-being when needed
  • Respond to inappropriate or dangerous situations

The author's companion website provides access to surveys, stories, and news articles that spark student discussions and support the book's activities. Cyber Savvy will show you how to turn techno panic into techno power!


Key features

The book will include
· Figures
· Exhibits
· (to be added to Part II) Case situations illustrating each of the issues discussed
Author(s)

Author(s)

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Nancy Willard
Nancy Willard, M.S., J.D. is the director of the Center for Safe and Responsible Internet Use. She has degrees in special education and law. She taught “at risk” children, practiced computer law, and was an educational technology consultant before focusing her professional attention on issues of youth risk online and effective management of student Internet use. She has focused on issues of youth risk online and effective Internet use management since 1995.

Nancy is author of several books. Among them are; Cyberbullying and Cyberthreats: Responding to the Challenge of Online Social Cruelty, Threats, and Distress (Research Press- 7,288 units sold) and Cyber-Safe Kids, Cyber-Savvy Teens, Helping Young People Use the Internet Safety and Responsibly (Jossey Bass, at 6,000 units sold). Nancy’s focus is on applying research insight into youth risk and effective research-based risk prevention approaches to these new concerns.
Table of Contents

Table of Contents

About the Author

Acknowledgments

Preface

I. Teaching Digital Safety & Citizenship

1. Let Them Teach Each Other to Swim

2. Making Positive Choices Online

3. The Dangers of Techno-Panic

4. Targeted Youth Risk Online Prevention & Intervention

5. Law Enforcement Officers as Instructors

6. School Staff Online

7. Providing Parent Guidance

II. Digital Safety and Citizenship Issues

8. Cyber Safe Kids

9. Avoid the Impulse - Remember What You Do Reflects on You

10. Read With Your Eyes Open - Assess the Credibility of Information

11. Keep Your Life in Balance - Avoid Addictive Use

12. Think Before You Post - Protect Your Reputation & Respect Others

13. Connect Safely - Interact Safely With Others Online

14. Keep Yourself Secure - Implement Security & Avoid Scams

15. Abide by the Terms - Act in Accord with Laws, Policies, & Terms

16. Stay Out of the Garbage - Avoid Objectionable & Illegal Material

17. Don’t Sell Yourself - Disclose & Consume Wisely

18. Protect Your Face & Friends - Be a Savvy & Civil When Networking

19. Embrace Civility - Prevent Hurtful Digital Communications

20. Cyberdate Safely - Avoid Exploitation & Abusive Relationships

Index

Reviews

Reviews

Quote by Aimée M. Bissonette, JD, Little Buffalo Law & Consulting, Richfield, MN: "Willard provides the reader with a critical understanding of why we need a more effective approach to teaching teens about Internet safety and citizenship. The guidelines and strategies she describes make the reader believe that implementation of a more effective, Cyber Savvy approach is not only feasible, but easily accomplished."
"Willard provides the reader with a critical understanding of why we need a more effective approach to teaching teens about Internet safety and citizenship. The guidelines and strategies she describes make the reader believe that implementation of a more effective, Cyber Savvy approach is not only feasible, but easily accomplished."
Aimée M. Bissonette, JD
Little Buffalo Law & Consulting, Richfield, MN
Quote by Christopher Wells, Director of IT Policies and Communications, Gwinnett County Public Schools, Suwanee, GA: "This book's approach is both interesting and outside the common tactics used by many schools to address cyber-citizenship issues. Instead of issuing mass edicts for school districts that will 'protect' students and staff by preventing access to valuable online information, Nancy Willard has developed a balanced methodology around making wiser choices and stronger long-term decisions."
"This book's approach is both interesting and outside the common tactics used by many schools to address cyber-citizenship issues. Instead of issuing mass edicts for school districts that will 'protect' students and staff by preventing access to valuable online information, Nancy Willard has developed a balanced methodology around making wiser choices and stronger long-term decisions."
Christopher Wells, Director of IT Policies and Communications
Gwinnett County Public Schools, Suwanee, GA
Quote by Jason Ohler, Professor Emeritus and Author, University of Alaska, Juneau:

“As the clear, informed, expert voice on cyberbullying, Nancy Willard shows how to make informed decisions that reflect reality. Her work is inspiring and extremely important to the national debate about digital citizenship.”

“As the clear, informed, expert voice on cyberbullying, Nancy Willard shows how to make informed decisions that reflect reality. Her work is inspiring and extremely important to the national debate about digital citizenship.”
Jason Ohler, Professor Emeritus and Author
University of Alaska, Juneau
Quote by Courtney Williams: "This book will help educators teach their students media literacy, safety, and 'netiquette.' Willard's expertise in risk prevention, law and education provides educators with the tools fo build an effective program for teaching students online safety and citizenship."
"This book will help educators teach their students media literacy, safety, and 'netiquette.' Willard's expertise in risk prevention, law and education provides educators with the tools fo build an effective program for teaching students online safety and citizenship."
Courtney Williams
Quote by Sara Marcus, Web Librarian, Queensborough Community College, New York: "This well-researched and documented book is laid out for easy reading and understanding of often complex materials and sensitive subjects."
"This well-researched and documented book is laid out for easy reading and understanding of often complex materials and sensitive subjects."
Sara Marcus, Web Librarian
Queensborough Community College, New York
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