Ed Tech Magazine – Erin Cunningham
“One reality of the increasingly connected K–12 classroom is even the youngest students are routinely going online, using email and engaging with mobile apps that collect their information. But how do you teach a child as young as 5 how to safely navigate such technology? “Kids have a hard time understanding there is someone on the other end of a computer,” says Laurie Salvail, a curriculum development specialist with the National Integrated Cyber Education Research Center (NICERC), a division of the Cyber Innovation Center in Louisiana. The key to teaching young children about correct online behavior, she says, is to adopt age-appropriate lessons and strategies — and not scare them.” (more)