ISAFE.org
Understanding the realities of our Internet world is essential to educators, parents and students. Our students are "digital natives" (phases attributed to Marc Prensky) who have grown up with cell phones, ipods and wireless connections to the Internet. We "digital immigrants", the old folks, remember typewriters, dial-up Internet access, pagers and phone booths. It is difficult sometimes for us newcomers to understand what our students so easily accept as their "normal" world. Their world is dynamic, evolving, full of promise and peril, good and evil and all shades in between. As educators, we can't try to prevent our students from engaging in this world. It doesn't work. They'll explore anyway. What we CAN do is educate them to be thoughtful consumers of information and not become naive victims of individuals who would wish them harm. We, the adults who care about them, must help them navigate through this new world.
So towards that end three years ago, the NYC Dept of Education joined forces with the iSAFE program to educate students, teachers, parents and the community about how to live in this Internet world safely. Click on the link below to learn more about the ISAFE program.
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http://isafe.org