Educators
Librarians
Pediatricians and Counselors
Community Organizations
Religious Schools and Institutions
Internet Service Providers
Nancy Willard’s professional resources for educators are available on the Center for Safe and Responsible Use web site. Information about online professional development workshops is also available on the Center’s site.
Youth Risk Online - Insight for Professionals Who Work With Youth - Presentation Notes
Please feel free to reproduce the booklets for parents or teens for distribution within your school community.
Coming soon:
Powerpoint presentation for parent workshops.
Powerpoint for middle and high school students.
Check out Nancy’s articles that appear monthly on Education World.
Nancy Willard’s professional resources for educators may also be of interest to librarians. These are available on the Center for Safe and Responsible Use web site. Information about online professional development workshops is also available on the Center’s site.
You might find the information in these presentation notes helpful:
Youth Risk Online - Insight for Professionals Who Work With Youth - Presentation Notes
Please feel free to reproduce the booklets for parents or teens for distribution within your school community.
Coming soon:
Powerpoint presentation for parent workshops.
Powerpoint for middle and high school students.
Check out Nancy’s podcast for YALSA’s Teen Tech Week, March, 2007.
In this interview with Nancy Willard, Frances Jacobson Harris asks Nancy about social networking, DOPA, and issues related to teen privacy and safety.
Check out Nancy’s articles that appear monthly on Education World.
You might find the information in these presentation notes helpful:
Youth Risk Online - Insight for Professionals Who Work With Youth - Presentation Notes
Please feel free to reproduce the booklets for parents or teens for distribution within your school community.
Screening Questions to Assess Youth Risk Online (under development)
You might find the information in these presentation notes helpful:
Youth Risk Online - Insight for Professionals Who Work With Youth - Presentation Notes
Please feel free to reproduce the booklets for parents or teens for distribution within your school community.
You might find the information in these presentation notes helpful:
Youth Risk Online - Insight for Professionals Who Work With Youth - Presentation Notes
Please feel free to reproduce the booklets for parents or teens for distribution within your school community.
Because I respect and honor all religious and spiritual paths, I worked very hard to ensure that the material presented in Cyber-Safe Kids, Cyber-Savvy Teens did seek to promote my personal values. Rather, I sought to strongly encourage parents to clarify their own values and to communicate these values to their children. For many parents, religious and spiritual values are part of those values. I do believe that it is no coincidence that there is a version the “Golden Rule” in every religion and spiritual doctrine.
In Chapter 21, I note that there are a number of sources of values and standards to guide decisions about online behavior, including family values, religious or spiritual values, school rules, Internet terms of use agreements, civil laws, and criminal laws. Additionally, rather than create a prewritten <Internet use agreement> for teens to sign, I created a document that requires teens to express their personal values and standards.
There are likely advantages to addressing these issues within the context of a youth group. This can combine the positive influences of your religious and spiritual values with positive peer influences. Here are my two suggestions for a group activity for teens in association with a religious organization of school.
Comparison of Values
Ask students to compare the values and standard related to Internet use from three sources: parents, school rules, and Internet terms of use agreements. After a set of common values and standards has been developed, ask the students to compare these values and standards with your specific religious or spiritual teachings. This could be expanded to an analysis of philosophy and ethics.
Completion of Parent-Teen Internet Use Agreement
Ask students to work together to complete the teen sections of theParent-Teen Internet Use Agreement and as they are doing so to consider how the values and standards of their religious or spiritual teachings are incorporated.
Strategies for Internet Service Providers
Nancy Willard and Peak Internet, a regional Internet Service Provider located in Corvallis, Oregon, are collaborating to develop strategies for ISPs to address safe and responsible Internet use with their service population. Check back here for updates and examples.
Youth Risk Online - Insight for Professionals Who Work With Youth - Presentation Notes