Road to Grammar
Techonology
Technology is a hot topic, so why not discuss it with your English language learners? There are three viewpoints from students included on this page, along with vocabulary words and ten tech-related questions to discuss.
Curated Video
Privacy Part 2
Why is online privacy so important? Explore privacy with a group assignment for which pupils create word clouds with words they associate with privacy. A discussion and online activity follow. Learners will read articles, explore the...
Curated Video
Reporting - Safety and Abuse Tool
Keep your charges safe online with instruction on how to report problems on YouTube. After providing learners with information on the Safety and Abuse Tool, demonstrate how to use the tool and discuss the feature. In groups, learners...
Curated Video
Reporting - Flagging
While it may feel like you can post just about anything on YouTube, that's not the case. Teach your class about flagging inappropriate content. Learners watch a demonstration, practice flagging, and answer questions about online content.
Curated Video
Policy - The Community Guidelines
Following a site's community guidelines is just one step toward being an excellent digital citizen. After a brief introductory video, small groups come up with their own community guidelines and present their ideas to come up with a...
Curated Video
Detecting Lies & Harmful Links
Who and what can you trust online? How do you know? After viewing a pair of introductory videos on positive and safe online conduct, learners discuss the content and put it into practice during an online search activity about alien life.
Curated OER
Promoting Ethical Behaviour Online — Our Values and Ethics
Students explore Internet safety practices. In this online privacy lesson, students examine their digital footprints in order to assess their online privacy and ethics.
Other
Pc World: Privacy 2000 in Web We Trust?
PC World provides an enormous article on internet privacy. Includes examples, problem areas, and tips and solutions resulting in more safety and privacy on the Internet.
Other
Common Sense Media: Strong Passwords [Pdf]
In this instructional activity, students learn how to create secure passwords in order to protect their private information and accounts online.
Other
Common Sense Media: Private and Personal Information [Pdf]
For this lesson young scholars learn the difference between private information and personal information, distinguishing what is safe and unsafe to share online.
PBS
Pbs Frontline: Growing Up Online
Information and analysis on the practices and habits of children and teens who live their lives online. Focus is on teen culture in the digital age and on how online media have intensified fears of the dangerous dimensions of adolescence.
PBS
Pbs News Hour Extra: Cloud Computing
Wouldn't it be great if all of our documents could be stored on the internet rather than eating up our hard drive space? The concept is 'cloud computing' and this issue provides some concern over this new type of computing.
Curated OER
Kids Health: Online Identity
What is your online identity? Do you share too much on social networking sites like Facebook or MySpace? Learn safe behavors to follow when you are online to prevent cyberbullying and identity theft.
Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media: Education: Lesson: That's Private!
[Free Registration/Login Required] Staying safe online is a lot like staying safe in the real world. By helping a Digital Citizen sign up for a new app, 2nd graders learn about the kinds of information they should keep to themselves when...
Next Gen Personal Finance
Next Gen Personal Finance: Financial Pitfalls Data Crunch
Data Crunches feature one chart or graph followed by five scaffolded questions to guide students through analyzing the data and drawing conclusions. These sets of data help students understand financial concepts.
Other
What Students Need to Know: Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy
This lesson unit published by the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario has four activities that explore the concept of privacy and prompt the discussion of privacy issues in students' own lives. The lessons refer to privacy...
Media Smarts
Media Awareness Network: Privacy Pirates
Sail away on the open seas in order to protect your online privacy from the privacy pirates. This animated game helps students become responsible digital citizens as they learn how to keep their personal information secure.
Get Safe Online
Get Safe Online: Protect Your Privacy
Many people that use the internet seem to be more willing to give out personal information than they would in other settings. This can be very dangerous. This resource describes how to protect your privacy while using the internet.
Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media: Education: Keep It Private (K 2nd Grade)
This lesson plan for young students will teach them the basics of staying safe online. Students review what information is private and should not be shared without a trusted adult's permission. Students then view sites that ask them to...
Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media: Education: Strong Passwords (3 5)
Students learn how to create secure passwords in order to protect their private information and accounts online. They learn tips for creating safe passwords. They explore scenarios in which two characters choose passwords, and they use...
Other
Azoomee: E Safety Lesson 4: Digital Permanence
For this lesson, students learn about digital permanence and talk about how hard it is to remove something from the Internet once you put it out there. (Video length: 1 min. 57 sec.]
Other
Uk Information Commissioner's Office: What Is Personal Information? [Pdf]
In this lesson plan, learners will develop their understanding of what is meant by 'personal information' and will create a chart with their own personal information. The exercise will help them to understand how to be careful with...
Other
Uk Information Commissioner's Office: Who Needs to Know? Why? [Pdf]
In this instructional activity, children will consider what personal information is appropriate to share and how this depends on that person's relationship with them. The exercise will help them to understand how to be careful with...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Multi Factor Authentication
Find out about the security of the most common form of authentication, multi-factor authentication.