Internet Safety
Blogging brings the curriculum to life
4 May 2012
Primary teacher Emma Hallinan, Culleens NS Mayo explains how using a Scoilnet Blog in the classroom has added fun to learning and teaching. Blogging with her pupils promotes collaborative learning and higher order thinking skills. Displaying the pupils’ Art work and Photo Stories gives an added purpose to their learning and allows parents and the wider community to share in their successes.
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6 February 2012
Safer Internet Day 2012, an EU wide initiative to promote a safer Internet for all users, especially young people, will be celebrated in Ireland on Tuesday 7th February 2012.
This year, Safer Internet Day, which is promoted in Ireland by the National Centre for Technology in Education NCTE), is urging families to get ‘webwise’ and to ‘discover the digital world together...safely!’.
2 February 2012
Safer Internet Day (SID) will be celebrated around the world on Tuesday 7th February. Webwise, the Safer Internet Ireland Awareness Centre has arranged a number of events to mark the day. Webwise and the NCTE work with partners in Ireland and the 27 Safer Internet Centres of the European Union’s Insafe Network to celebrate SID. See how you and your child or school can join in the celebrations at webwise.ie
21 September 2011
This is a call to action for parents to get involved in what their children are doing online from Webwise, Ireland's home for internet safety advice and tools.
2 February 2012
In this clip an experienced parent discusses her experience of implementing the National Parents Council's advice on negotiating boundaries and communicating with children about their use of the internet.
Talking to Your Child about the Internet
2 February 2012
Parenting expert, Áine Lynch from the National Parents Council, talks about the importance of having good, open communication with your child about their internet lives and provides some practical advice on how to achieve this.
Webwise: What Children Do Online
2 February 2012
This clip shows children in Ireland between the ages of 8 and 12 years talking about what they do online.
Webwise: Negotiating an Internet Contract
2 February 2012
Parenting expert, Áine Lynch from the National Parents Council, discusses the benefits and practicalities for setting rules and boundaries for your child's internet usage.
2 February 2012
This short clip shows you how to enable YouTube's safety mode. YouTube is one of the most popular websites with children in Ireland. You can very easily switch on the safety mode that blocks access to adult content on this site.
2 February 2012
In this presentation at an Insafe regional conference in Dublin in 2009, dutch academic Hubb Nils outlines how recent advances in our understanding of how teenagers' brains work can explain some of their risk taking and poor decision making online.
2 February 2012
This short clip from webwise demonstrates how to enable Google's safe search mode. If you are a parent and your children are using the intenret, you should do this. It is free, it's
easy to switch on and only takes about a minute, and it is actually pretty effective.
