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Digital Literacy Portal for the entire family
As more of our life happens online, Internet skills are crucial to living responsibly. What are the skills needed to navigate today’s Internet society? How can parents and educators teach themselves, their families, and their communities about important topics like identity protection, fraud detection, and digital citizenship?
ThinkB4U is a collaboration between Google and expert safety partners Common Sense Media, ConnectSafely, and the National Consumers League. Together we are tackling some of the biggest learning curves thrown at the average user in a fun and interactive way.
There is still much to be done to achieve high levels of digital literacy for everyone. We hope that projects like ThinkB4U will boost advocacy for online safety education, the importance of which is invaluable in a deeply connected world.
Resources for kids
Here are links to some useful resources from our partners that you can use with your children.
Faux Paw the Techno Cat internet safety series for children
Meet Faux Paw, the Websurfing Techno Cat, who teaches young children the safe and responsible use of technology through stories developed in collaboration with child psychologists, educators and law enforcement. The four Faux Paw storybooks and animated films may be downloaded at no cost.
Video series about managing your online reputation and keeping safe
Connect Safely has created a series of videos about online safety with a character called Kate. Follow the links below to watch these on YouTube.
- Kate’s Very Public Party: Kate learns that party photos can wind up online and be seen by – of all people – her own parents.
- Kate’s Reputation Problem: Kate doesn’t get a job she wanted because of a video her would-be employer saw on the web.
- Is Kate a Web Addict?: Kate’s experience shows that the amount of time kids should spend online isn’t black & white (even though the video is!).
Ad Council’s Beware What You Share campaign
The Ad Council’s Internet Safety Coalition has developed a creative campaign for teaching kids to ‘Beware What You Share,’ by likening an online post to something worn on a shirt the next day. The materials remind teens that online actions can have real world consequences.
Resources for schools
Digital literacy curriculum for schools from iKeepSafe and Google
We’ve teamed up with online safety organization iKeepSafe to develop a curriculum that educators can use in the classroom to teach what it means to be a responsible online citizen.
The curriculum is designed to be interactive, discussion filled and allow students to learn through hands-on and scenario activities. On this site you’ll find a resource booklet for both educators and students that can be downloaded in PDF form, presentations to accompany the lesson and animated videos to help frame the conversation: www.google.com/educators/digitalliteracy.html