*Please Note: As a professional teacher, I have years of experience working with students with special needs, i.e. Autism, ADD, ADHD, Dyslexia, Stuttering, etc. All students are welcome in my classes!*

I am SO STOKED to offer this one-of-a-kind, all-inclusive internet safety course! This course takes my popular internet safety class and expands it based on the many parent requests I have received! This 4-week course covers literally everything kids and parents need to know about online safety!

This class helps BOTH kids and parents understand the dangers and preventive strategies that exist to keep our kids safe online.

*Please be aware that there is not pressure to finish the HW every week. It is a choice and not a requirement.*

 
This course covers my in-depth safety training along with the basics that everyone else teaches, AND real life stories of victims and their experiences, and things they would have done differently. (Age appropriate of course) I also include a cheat sheet for parents that gives a quick breakdown of the content and preventive measures. 

A lot of parents have told me that they are very good at monitoring their childrens' online activity, which is awesome, but not enough! Why? Experienced predators don't leave a trace. With apps like snapchat that delete content, there's no way of knowing your child is being secretly groomed by an experienced online predator, or even by someone else they have met in real life, like possibly a teacher. Yikes! Let's dive in, learn together, and keep our kids safe everywhere they go!

HOW THIS COURSE WORKS:

Every Sunday I will post one or two new videos for the week. Videos are about 30 minutes long, sometimes a little more, to give students more time to think about and digest the material. By Wednesday, students are to post a short summary of what they have learned in the video. This summary should be at least 2 sentences, and can be longer if they choose. I will post 1-2 Discussion Questions every week that are to be answered by Friday that are designed to get students thinking critically about what they are learning, and they are designed to help students do a simple recall of material taught. 

 Students will be able to ask each other questions, give each other feedback, and interact with me as I join their discussions. 

To end the class, each student will make a list of their take-aways to post in the discussion section.

There will be A LOT of information taught over these 4 weeks, and it is recommended that students stick to the schedule as best as possible to get the most out of class. Of course, being a flex class, students can complete the material on their own schedule, and they will still learn everything they need to learn!

OPTIONAL LIVE MEETING

In this course, I will offer an optional live meeting in case students want to meet each other, meet me, or simply ask me questions live instead of asking questions for everyone else to see. 

I also extend this service to parents who might have additional questions on this topic! Of course parents can still email me, but if they prefer a short live meeting, that is also an option. 


Week 1:

Talking to parents about online activity
Social Networking/Social Media
Personal Information and Passwords
Making "friends" online
Cyberbullying

Week 2:

Meeting up IRL (In Real Life)
Dealing with people who ask personal questions
Spotting scammers (Even kids in this age group are targeted by scammers online)
Everything online is forever
Chat rooms and forums

Week 3:

Online safety stats
Who is a target?
Why grooming is emotional
Why a child's IQ is meaningless when it comes to being groomed
Everything is a puzzle
How predators use all information they get against kids

Week 4:

The Grooming Process
Predators lie about age and why
Predators replace a child's parents with themselves emotionally


This course literally covers everything kids and parents need to know about online safety.

Parents, if you have questions or suggestions, please feel free to message me! Heck, that's how I created a lot of the content for this course, by parent feedback!

THE ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION OF THE FIRST CLASS

This interactive class focuses on the relationship building strategies and techniques online predators use to gain the trust of kids and to trick them. I use the Socratic method, which employs the art of questioning in order to really engage learners, and to make sure the information they learn is impactful, and is actually retained. 

Kids think they're too smart to be fooled online, and they don't understand that intelligence has nothing to do with being groomed. It's all about the emotional connections that predators work so hard to build. 

This is a very unique class because I go beyond the normal internet safety advice. We talk about the basics of not sharing information online, being mindful of what and where we post, and the reality that everything we post online lives forever. We go in-depth to learn about how predators earn the trust of the kids they are grooming through taking advantage of emotional vulnerabilities and emotional needs.

Kids will learn the importance of keeping their personal lives private, and they will learn the reality that there are people who lie so they can hurt children. The internet is a really fun place where kids and adults can learn a lot, and it is my goal to make sure it stays that way for our kids!