Julia Gillard, the Australian Prime Minister, recently introduced an educational cybersafety initiative within primary schools. I believe a lot of schools are discussing and dealing with cybersafety already but this initiative was included within the curriculum’s Life Education Program and therefore can’t be missed by any student now.
This is all good news for kids and parents. Fortunately there are plenty of good interactive learning game environments already set-up for helping kids become more cyber aware. Here are a few from Australia, the USA and Canada:
- budd:e cybersecurity builder – I’ve blogged about this in the past HERE
- FBI Cyber Surf Islands– for the middle years; grade 3 to grade 8
- Media Smarts Educational Games– Canada’s centre for digital and media literacy
But these learning games and government initiatives will not work alone! I think we all need to be on-board with teaching kids about online safety and…
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