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Childnet: Online Safety: Privacy Settings

For Students 9th - 10th
Privacy settings (sometimes called privacy controls) are the tools provided as part of an online account to protect the information and content you are sharing. This site features questions, answers, and tips about privacy settings.
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Childnet: Online Safety: Privacy and Data

For Students 9th - 10th
Privacy is the ability to keep certain things to yourself, for them not to be seen by or shared with others. Personal data is information about you collected by the apps and websites you visit (like the things you like and open). This...
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Childnet: Online Safety: New Online Accounts

For Students 9th - 10th
You often need to register or sign up for a new account to use different platforms or sites online. To do this, you will need to enter your personal details and make good use of privacy settings to keep your information safe and secure....
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Childnet: Online Safety: Bullying

For Students 9th - 10th
Online bullying, sometimes called cyberbullying, is any behavior that uses technology and devices to deliberately target or upset someone. It includes a list of questions you might ask and the answers as well as five tips to address...
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Childnet: Online Safety: Fake News

For Students 9th - 10th
Fake news most often describes inaccurate or false information spread online by either news services or via social media. However, the phrase is sometimes used in other ways such as to describe anything thought to be false, misleading or...
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Childnet: Online Safety: Video Calls

For Students 9th - 10th
Video calling allows us to speak to our friends and family, and see their faces, which is especially valuable when we are unable to see them in person. It has also allowed lessons, and contact with schools, to continue during the...
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Childnet: Online Safety: Social Media

For Students 9th - 10th
Social media are apps and websites where you can connect and share content with friends. On these services you are often able to share and view a whole range of media such as video, photos, music and chat. Popular social media services...
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Childnet: Online Safety: Screen Time

For Students 9th - 10th
Screen time is the amount of time we spend using devices and technology. There are some concerns that we are spending too long looking at screens and many devices now provide tools to track our screen time. This site features questions,...
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Childnet: Online Safety: Star Films

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Four animated learning films to support and reinforce the key messages from the teaching toolkit. Each film contains: A short 2-3 minute animated film covering issues related to each section of the toolkit, a pause function to prompt...
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Childnet: Online Safety: Medical Misinformation

For Students 9th - 10th
Misinformation is inaccurate information shared by accident. It can sometimes confuse, mislead, or influence people. COVID-19 is a new virus, which means it is sometimes easy for people to misunderstand information, interpret it...
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Childnet: Online Safety: Livestreaming

For Students 9th - 10th
Live-streaming is a way for people to broadcast themselves online. Apps such as Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, Twitch, and YouTube all offer live-streaming services. This site provides a list of questions, answers, and tips about the...
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Childnet: Online Safety: Gaming

For Students 9th - 10th
Gaming involves playing 'video games' on a games console (such as a PlayStation 4, XBOX One, or Nintendo Switch) a PC or mobile games on a smartphone or tablet. This site includes a list of questions, answers to the questions, and tips...
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Childnet: Online Safety: R for Respect

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This section has been developed to help generate discussions about respect, friendship and online conflict including cyberbullying. Download R for Respect toolkit resources.
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Childnet: Online Safety: A for Action

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This section has been developed to help generate discussion about positive actions and strategies young people can take to ensure they thrive online. Download A for Action Toolkit resources.
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Childnet: Online Safety: T for Trust

For Students 9th - 10th
This section has been developed to help generate discussions about the trustworthiness of content and contact online and help develop critical thinking skills. Download T for Trust Toolkit resources
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Childnet: Online Safety: Phishing and Scams

For Students 9th - 10th
Phishing and online scams are ways that people try to trick you into giving up your personal information, login details or money. This site features questions, answers, and tips to be safe from phishing and scams.
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Childnet: Online Safety: Online Reputation

For Students 9th - 10th
The things online that you have liked, shared and commented on, as well as what others have shared about you, may shape what other people think about you; this is your online reputation. This site features questions, answers, and tips to...
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Childnet: Online Safety: Online Grooming

For Students 9th - 10th
Online grooming is when someone builds a relationship with a young person online because they want to trick or pressure them into doing something that may hurt or harm them. This site provides questions, answers, and tips about online...
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Childnet: Online Safety: Nudes (Sexting)

For Students 9th - 10th
Sending nudes, sometimes referred to as 'sexting', means taking or sharing naked, partially dressed or sexually explicit images of yourself or others, using technology. This site provides .questions, answers, and tips about posting...
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Childnet: Online Safety: Get Answers

For Students K - 1st
Got questions about how to stay safe online and what to do when things go wrong? Get answers here! It includes questions concerning cyberbullying, meeting people from online, online gaming, time spent online, what does the report button...
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Childnet: Online Safety: Film Competition 2021: International

For Students 1st - 9th
This year, Childnet is introducing the brand new International Category, to enable young people who attend school outside of the UK to also enter. Whilst this will run alongside the UK competition, please note that the International...
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Childnet: Online Safety: Film Competition 2021

For Students 1st - 9th
For the last 12 years, the Childnet Film Competition has challenged young filmmakers to create a short film or a storyboard in response to a given theme. All entries must contain a positive message and be able to educate other young...
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Childnet: Online Safety: Smart Rules Quiz

For Students K - 1st
Do you know how to be SMART online? Take our quiz and find out how SMART you are online. Read the questions and decide what the right answers are. Each question might have more than one right answer. For children ages 6-11 years old.
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Childnet: Online Safety: Just a Joke?

For Students 4th - 8th
This site provides lesson plans, quick activities, a quiz and teaching guide designed to explore problematic online sexual behavior with 9-12 year olds.

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