Internet Safety

Children's Partnership Releases Online Safety Report

An Internet safety task force, which includes representatives from various interested groups, has issued a report about ways to improve online safety for children. The report, titled PointSmart.ClickSafe: Task Force Recommendations for Best Practices for Online Safety and Literacy focuses on three areas:

• education before a child goes online
• control while the child is online
• having established procedures if problems do arise

The report offers best practices in cyber safety, as well as recommends ways that policy makers and industry leaders can help to increase Web safety and security for children. "Children need to learn how to use technology efficiently, effectively, and ethically so that they can participate fully in social, economic, and civil life in the digital age," the report states.

 

Please read the report at PointSmart.ClickSafe

 

Cyber Safety Initiative- CSI

On February 8,9 and 12 a representative from the Attorney General Office of Michigan came to Summit Schools and presented to the K-8 students age-appropriate information on Cyber Safety. For the Elementary Students three rules are stressed:

 

I Keep Safe

I Keep Away

I Keep Telling

 

For the MS students information was presented on Internet Predators and Cyber Bullying.

 

For more information please see CSI information on Attorney General's site .