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Webwise offers excellent advice for parents on Internet Safety. There are 4 main areas in the parents section – Advice, Explainers, How to and Publications. As part of our SPHE curriculum we look at some webwise lessons over the year.
Webwise also offers up to date information on apps that you may hear your child mention. It is worthwhile being informed – Explainers .
Parents Guide to a Better Internet: This booklet will help parents to help their children have a positive experience when they are online. It provides information, advice and conversation starters about the benefits and risks they need to be aware of when using the internet. Topics explored in the guide include cyberbullying, screen time, sexting, social media and online pornography.
Other Resources
The Digiduck® collection has been created to help parents and teachers educate children aged 3–7 about online safety. The collection includes a ebooks, PDFs, a poster and an interactive app – Digi Duck Stories
Jessie & Friends is a series of three animations that follow the adventures of Jessie, Tia and Mo as they begin to navigate the online world, watching videos, sharing pictures and playing games. Jessie and Friends Videos
Play Like Share is a three part animated series aiming to help 8 – 10 year olds learn how to stay safe online; Think you know
On the Internet Book: On the Internet Book.pdf
This is a book for children to read at an age-appropriate level about being on the internet. The book contains many decodable words and could be used as part of a series of digital citizenship lessons.
The resource can be accessed here https://www.childnet.com/resources/a-learning-to-read-book/.
Kiddle - a safer alternative to Google search
Kiddle.co: Kiddle is powered by Google Safe Search but is not affiliated with Google LLC. Kiddle search results satisfy family friendly requirements, they filter sites with explicit or deceptive content. Kiddle also has filtered Google Images to have more child-appropriate results. The Images tab has Google Images. The Kimages tab has images from the Kiddle Encyclopaedia which can be used if attributed/cited that they were sourced from Kiddle Encyclopaedia. This could be set as the default search engine on your home devices.
Swiggle
Swiggle is another child friendly search engine, ad free. It gives child oriented results and uses Google Safe Search.
HTML Heroes; Play HTML Heroes and make your way through lots of fun interactive puzzles and activities.
Teach pupils the importance of digital citizenship and online safety with the help of the HTML Heroes!
Lessons explore themes such as being safe online, finding reliable information, privacy, chatting, playing and learning online.
The programme is supported by fun activities, animations, short illustrated stories and more. There is one programme for 1st and 2nd class and another for 3rd and 4th Class.
Monitor your child’s iPad Use: Apple have produced a great list of the features available for iPad and iPhone to help parents become aware of the parental controls. With a few taps you can keep your kids from accessing movies, TV shows, music, apps, books, or podcasts that contain things you don’t want them to see or hear, restrict certain websites and more – Apple.Com Families
10 Internet Safety Tips for Parents can be downloaded Webwise-Parents-Online-Safety-Checklist
Zeeko – Internet Safety Guide – http://zeeko.ie.
Download it here – Zeeko – Internet Safety Guide. Zeeko provide resources for parents, teachers and schools to empower their children with the tools to protect themselves online. The Zeeko Internet Safety Guide will help parents and teachers navigate the internet and teach their children how to use the internet responsibly. They will find out how to protect their children online and get peace of mind.
Discover how to:
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- Set safety settings
- Protect your child’s digital footprint
- Talk your kid’s language
- Protect against cyberbullying and stranger danger
- Defend against excessive internet use
- Safeguard against inappropriate content