Our Cyber Awareness & Safety Education (CASE) is an Internet safety curriculum made up of a series of lesson plans and targeted at elementary and middle schools. The curriculum is specifically designed to effectively teach students about Internet safety in a fun, interactive way. It encourages small group discussions of real life Internet experiences with a feedback loop to school parents. This approach leads to better student retention and understanding and enables students to effectively apply these lessons to their online life.
CASE curriculum topics include cyberbullying, Internet predators, and digital citizenship, among others. The curriculum can be delivered by one of our cyber safety experts or by your school’s staff. If your school or organization would like to learn more about our Internet Safety curriculum, please sign up for one of our free 30 minute consultations to determine how best to incorporate our curriculum into your school.
Our cyber safety experts have answered the simple question – What is the best way to teach children about Internet safety and the dangers that they encounter while interacting with people online? While traditional presentations are effective, we were looking for a way to get students to connect the dots regarding the dangers that are online and appropriate online behavior. There needed to be a way for them to really ‘get it’. For example, students can tell you that it is wrong to talk to people they do not know online. However, they do not understand how an online predator connects with them.
The objective of our Internet safety curriculum is for students to develop a deeper understanding of the dangers of the Internet and inappropriate online behavior thus making the connection between online actions and consequences of those actions. While students gain a better understanding through the initial student presentation, this 5 session course pushes the students to the next level of learning. They will engage in active learning techniques to personalize the topics covered.
The Internet safety curriculum utilizes a pretest to assess the students’ current understanding of the material to be covered. The instructor uses this information to tailor the course to increase its effectiveness.
We have learned that students need to connect the instruction with their own unique experiences for it to truly sink in. Traditional presentation styles in which an instructor lectures to a class are not 100% effective. To connect the dots, they need to understand why Internet safety is important to THEM.
The majority of material is delivered using a student-centered approach to learning. While the instructor is an authority figure, the students play an equally active role in this course. The instructor’s primary role is to coach and facilitate student learning and overall understanding of the material. The material is taught through a number of different activities including videos, case studies, small and large group discussions, and small group projects.
A test is given at the end of the course to measure the students’ mastery of the material. This can also be used by the school to record a grade for an ‘Internet safety’ unit of the class.
CASE, our Internet safety curriculum, consists of independent classes with each class building on the previous class and continually reinforcing the information presented. CASE is designed to be taught by your instructor or our cyber safety experts and all of the background materials and exercises are included with the purchase of the CASE Internet Safety curriculum.
The CASE Primary topics include:
The CASE Middle topics include:
A typical session lasts for approximately 45 minutes but can be adapted to the length of a typical class period as necessary.
We are so pleased with Cyber Safety Consulting. Their common sense approach to our 6th grade students resonates with young teens, and gets them to truly self-reflect about their own actions and the implications of social media in their lives. The lessons and discussions do not scare kids, or lecture them. It educates them and opens their minds and their eyes, with humor and real life stories from personal experiences. Cyber Safety Consulting is making a positive difference in the choices kids make, and as a teacher and parent myself, what more can one want?
