Safety Skills
Safe is a new programme of practical, activities to develop primary children’s skills, self-confidence and safety awareness when using social network sites.
Safe brings together the FREE social network for schools, Radiowaves, with leading safety organisations Childnet International and The I in Online.
Combining a safe, social network, downloadable materials and teacher resources, the programme will enable any primary school to easily deliver fun activities which develop their pupils’ digital literacy skills. By completing theprogramme pupils gain a Safe certificate as evidence of their learning.
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Social networking and sharing content online is now an integral part of young people's lives. It provides many opportunities for them to develop creative and communication skills in ways that are relevant to them, in school or at home.
However, with these new opportunities come many new choices; how do we help children make positive and informed choices when creating and sharing online?
Safe aims to provide practical activities and a framework to help pupils develop as aware and active digital citizens.
Get Involved
Over the next few months we will be developing and testing resources in schools before a national launch in October.
You can be part of this process by sharing your views and ideas with us. Please sign up to be kept up to date, post a comment or contact us direct.
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How it works
All Safe tasks are linked closely to the English Primary Curriculum and Scottish Curriculum for Excellence. The tasks are supported by teacher packs which include how to guides, discussion topics and learning outcomes.
Radiowaves, the social media network for schools, is providing FREE websites and tools so that all primary schools can easily deliverSafe activities. Find out more.
The 3 Ws
Safe is based around 3 core concepts that encourage pupils to ask questions before they share information or media.
Who?
Who will see what you share? How do you control who can see it?
What?
What are you sharing? Is it yours to share? What personal information are you sharing?
Where?
Where are you sharing things? Is this the best place for you and your work?
How to join
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The programme will launch fully in autumn 2010 - sign up now to be kept informed and help make Safe.
Tell others:
"Safe is a really good combination of very practical resources for teachers and fun, engaging activities for pupils. It gives teachers the support they need to guide their pupils with confidence."
— Primary School Teacher
"Safe embraces the positive opportunities afforded by the internet, encouraging young people to think about their role as digital citizens as well as how to stay safe online. The Who? What? Where? messages are important for primary pupils to consider, empowering them to think about how they share their content and preparing them for interacting on social networking sites."
— Lucinda Fell, Childnet International Policy and Communications Manager
"The I in online is delighted to support Safe. The need to educate children about responsible use of social media is as important as teaching them road safety."
— Robert Bond
Contact Us
For more information please contact:
hello@digitalme.co.uk
0113 2469989
Safe is developed by DigitalMe with support from: Childnet International, The I in Online and Radiowaves.