On top of teaching new technology skills applicable in the classroom and the software and hardware that could be used thence, this "Technology Application for Education" course should also emphasize much of the digital safety skills that teachers and students should learn. This set of Digital Safety presentations fulfills the latter part and could go into much more depth with a larger set of minds coming together to produce ample creativity and add ideas from different perspectives. With the four separate presentations, students had the opportunity to research their assigned topic, make concise presentations summarizing the issues of the topic, and become something short of a "professional" on their topic. Topics covered include sexting and textual harassment, cyber-bullying, phishing and pharming, & copyright and fair user practices. In this increasingly digital age, children need to be increasingly media literate and more "tech savvy" th...
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