Author: Lee, Lin-Chiou

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Go to Common Sense
Media Resources for
Parents at https://
www.commonsense
media.org/educators/
Parents
All Fulton County Office
365 and GAFE accounts
comply with laws
regarding privacy of
Student data (FERPA,
COPPA, CIPA).

Digital Relationships
Don’t dismiss digital talk and underestimate the power of texts, IMs, and other digital media to strengthen existing relationships. Teen relationships often move from online to offline.
Talk about what’s private and what’s okay to share. But remind them that intimate posts or messages can be copied and shared with thousands of people in an instant.
Check out ThatsNotCool.com and MTV’s “A Thin Line” campaign, empowering students to take texting and cell phone power back into their own hands.

Digital Citizenship
@ HOOCH
Parent Guide

Ms. Lee
leelc@fultonschools.org

Plagiarism and Piracy
Encourage legal downloading, streaming, and sharing music and movie. Discourage teens from using peer-to-peer (PTP) sharing sites, which not only raise legal risks, but also make computers vulnerable to viruses, identity theft, and spyware.
Help teens give credit to the work they use. Students are taught to include APA or MLA citations, which are descriptions of the sources they use, including information about the author, title, publisher, and year of publication.
Is it fair use? Fair use allows creators to use a small amount of copyrighted material without permission, in certain situations. To help your teens decide if work they use is protected by fair use (https://www.copyright.gov/fair-use/more-info.html).
Challenge teens to take ownership of their work and think about how they would like others to be able to use their photos, writing, artwork, or videos. If they are interested in having their work freely available to others, they can use Creative Commons licenses (https://creativecommons.org).

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Safe Online Behaviors
Connected culture can be positive or negative. It’s important for teens to understand that they have a choice in all of their online relationships. They can say something positive or mean. They can definitely create great community support around activities or interests.
Talk about cyberbullying because it’s real. It’s everywhere. Students sometimes will tell you about a friend’s problems rather than their own experiences. Talk about how to deal with a cyberbully and urge them to tell a trusted adult about it.
Encourage positive posting to the online world. Are your teens fans of YouTube? Have they said something encouraging about what they’ve seen and loved? Have they added knowledge to a wiki or tweet?
Remind teens that texts and IMs may not persist, but they still have impact. Anything they say or do with their phones may seem to disappear when the devices sleep or shut down, but the impact on others remains – whether for good or bad.

Online Security
Create strong passwords to protect accounts (strongpasswordgenerator. com or LastPass). Teens should never share passwords with friends. They should update their passwords often.
Think twice before downloading from non-secure sources that can plague a computer with spyware and viruses.
Be careful when sharing information such as full name, address, date of birth and account numbers. Messages that ask teens to share private information are red flags for scams.
See what phishing and clickjacking look like to avoid being tricked. Check out the examples at www.consumerfraud reporing.org.
Install the latest security updates to be protected from viruses, spyware, and other security problems by using up-to-date security tools.
Consider limiting data collection to help teens control their own information by disabling Internet “cookies” so companies cannot track online behavior, limiting clicking on ads, and examining a website’s privacy policy before revealing any information on it.