What is Digital Safety?

What is Digital Safety and Privacy?

Cyberbullying – “Cyberbullying is bullying that takes place over digital devices like cell phones, computers, and tablets. Cyberbullying can occur through SMS, Text, and apps, or online in social media, forums, or gaming where people can view, participate in, or share content. Cyberbullying includes sending, posting, or sharing negative, harmful, false, or mean content about someone else. It can include sharing personal or private information about someone else causing embarrassment or humiliation.”

Why is it important to understand Digital Safety and Privacy?

The internet contains a wealth of information that you and your children can benefit from. The internet can also be a dangerous place where you’ll need to protect your privacy and data.

Common Sense Media has a page on their website especially for parents about how to protect their kids’ privacy and internet safety.

Reviews.com also features information on their site regarding the effects of too much screen time on children and how you, as a parent, can monitor your child’s screen time.

 

More Digital Safety and Privacy Videos

https://www.commonsensemedia.org/video/advice/privacy-and-internet-safety

 

Top 10 Online Safety Tips

Supporting Articles

Parents’ Ultimate Guide to Parental Controls

How Parents and Educators Can Protect Children’s Online Privacy

Safety in my Online Neighborhood

Sources

“What Is Cyberbullying.” Stop Bullying.Gov, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2020.

Privacy and Internet Safety Parenting Videos, Common Sense Media, www.commonsensemedia.org/privacy-and-internet-safety#csm-topics-related-videos

“Digital and Civic Literacy Skills.” Teaching Tolerance, www.tolerance.org/frameworks/digital-literacy.

Privacy and Internet Safety Parenting Tips, Common Sense Media, www.commonsensemedia.org/video/advice/privacy-and-internet-safety.

Knorr, Caroline. Parents’ Ultimate Guide to Parental Controls, Common Sense Media, 8 June 2020, www.commonsensemedia.org/blog/parents-ultimate-guide-to-parental-controls.