Internet Safety Lee Hubbard Instructional Technology Facilitator Lee County Schools

Statistics (from Internet Safety: What you don’t know can hurt your child) 1 in 5 children between 10 and 17 years of age have received unwanted sexual solicitation while online 1 in 4 children have seen sexually explicit images while online 1 in 17 children have received threats or been harassed online 1 in 33 children have been solicited to meet somewhere

Internet Safety: What You Don’t Know Can Hurt Your Students Video Segment

What Can We Do? Educate Staff, Students, and Parents –Enforce policies and procedures Monitor Students’ use of computers –Classroom –Labs Internet Filters (Dan’s Guardian) –not perfect (does not take the place of monitoring)

Why We Filter Federal Law –Must filter internet used by students Protect our students –Online predators –Harassment –Themselves Protect our staff –Personal information –Harassment

Tools for Internet Safety Attorney General’s Office – i-SAFE –

References Internet Safety: What You Don’t Know Can Hurt Your Child- Parent’s Guide (Attorney General’s Office) Internet Safety: What You Don’t Know Can Hurt Your Students- Video (Attorney General’s Office)