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Websites for Peer and personal safety
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Websites—Peer and personal safety
Hector’s World™ Episode 1 ‘Online Privacy’: ‘Details, Details’
Hector's World™ offers an engaging group of animated characters with whom children aged 5–9 years old can form strong emotional bonds and use as positive role models.
Hector's World™ offers an engaging group of animated characters with whom children aged 5–9 years old can form strong emotional bonds and use as positive role models. Students learn how to manage giving information online when signing up for a website and about the ways in which data is amalgamated and collected through different online experiences including instant messaging, text messaging, and in-game messaging.
Students view and discuss ‘Details, Details’ which introduces the characters, setting and the theme of personal information online. Teaching and learning activities include a website analysis demonstrating some of the ways in which websites can collect and can use personal information provided by the user, and how some information can lead to precise identification.
(Approximately 90 minutes)
Hector’s World™ Episode 2 ‘Welcome to the Carnival’
Hector's World™ offers an engaging group of animated characters with whom children aged 5–9 years old can form strong emotional bonds and use as positive role models.
Students understand that there are a variety of reasons why their personal details may be collected both online and offline, and to seek advice before entering their details online or providing it to people offline. They learn to question what they find online and not to always trust websites. Students learn to make wise decisions about entering their personal details online.
Students view and discuss ‘Welcome to the Carnival’. The focus is on the concept of ‘trust’, and examples from the video and from class discussion and activities are used to explore how to assess ‘trustworthiness’, and to help students understand the terminology.
(Time: approximately 45 minutes)
Hector’s World™ Episode 3 ‘It’s a Serious Game’
Hector's World™ offers an engaging group of animated characters with whom children aged 5–9 years old can form strong emotional bonds and use as positive role models.
Building on the understanding that not all online sites are trustworthy, the students look at how to find out if a website is trustworthy or not.
Students view and discuss ‘It’s a Serious Game’. Teaching and learning activities include guided discussion and a worksheet to further explore sharing personal details on the internet. Students complete a website survey to judge if particular ‘websites’ could be trusted with their personal information.
(Time: approximately 45 minutes)
Hector’s World™ Episode 4 ‘The Info Gang’
Hector's World™ offers an engaging group of animated characters with whom children aged 5–9 years old can form strong emotional bonds and use as positive role models.
The students learn about two tools they can use to protect themselves and their personal information on the internet—nicknames and passwords.
Students view and discuss ‘The Info Gang’. Students learn about nicknames and password protection by playing a game of hangman using information cards and review their findings. (Time: approximately 45 minutes)
Hector’s World™ Episode 5 ‘Heroes’
Hector's World™ offers an engaging group of animated characters with whom children aged 5–9 years old can form strong emotional bonds and use as positive role models.
Students think about and identify people in their lives that they can turn to if they come across something unsafe or upsetting while online.
Students view and discuss ‘Heroes’. Teaching and learning activities include guided discussion and group activities. Students draw on this and knowledge from previous lessons to complete a worksheet ‘Who are the people in my life who can help me?’ and an extension activity thinking of something they can do to help others be safe online.
(Time: approximately 45 minutes)
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Websites—e-Security
Budd:e E-security Education Package
The Stay Smart Online website hosts the Budd:e E-security Education Package which is designed to raise the e-security awareness of Australian primary and secondary school students and help them stay smart online.
Both modules contain engaging, media rich activities and resources developed in consultation with teachers and subject matter experts.
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