Digital safety and security is protecting yourself
and others from phishing websites, malware, spyware, spam and junk mail. These
programs are not always obvious; they look respectable programs. Unless we are
careful, they could cause hardware damage and identity theft. You’re putting
your child/student, yourself and your data at risk.
Best practices to protect ourselves and our students
are:
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Create strong passwords that cannot be
guessed easily. The least we can do in creating passwords is to use
combinations of letters, numbers, and symbols.
·
Your private information should remain
private. Unless you know for sure who the company is that is asking for your
private information, never give your full name, address, phone number, social security
number and information about your banking account and credit card information.
In order to download certain programs, most of the time, they don’t require all
these information. If they do, probably you’re dealing with bad guys who want
to do you harm. Never put these information in an email. Emails can easily be
scanned by the bad guys.
·
Check the website each student is
surfing and if you think it is inappropriate and not good for the student, talk
about it and use it as teaching moment.
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Teachers must make sure that they
monitor discussion forums. All contributors must log in in order to comment.
This promotes accountability.
The following websites with rich
information on Digital Safety and Security
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