Internet Safety Tutorials for Kids
The Internet is an excellent resource for children looking to enhance their learning, as well as a place to find entertainment and interact with friends. However, the Internet also has drawbacks, including online predators who can harm a child if the child does not know how to avoid them. Internet safety tutorials prepare a child by teaching them what to look out for online.
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Carnegie Cyber Academy Training Missions
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The Carnegie Cyber Academy features a series of games called Training Missions, which teach children the keys to Internet safety. The Spam game teaches children how to distinguish between real and dangerous emails, while the Personal Information game teaches children not to share information with strangers. The site also features games that cover dangerous websites and Internet bullying.
GCF Learn Free
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The Internet Safety tutorial from GCF Learn Free includes three different sections for teaching children how to use the Internet. The Lessons section offers reading for the child and tells them about the different dangers of Internet use. The Interactives allows children to partake in modules that review the information learned in the lessons. In the Extras section, a child can find tutorials on how to perform specific Internet safety procedures.
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I Keep Safe Fun Factory
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I Keep Safe Fun Factory's "Internet Panic!" game places children in control of a cat character that must avoid the many dangers online while seeking out safety measures. The child must instruct their character to hop over such dangers as inappropriate content or spam emails, while collecting positive items such as parental permission and virus protection.
Kids Health
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Kids Health's Internet Safety section provides children with all the vital information they need to safely browse the Internet and avoid potential predators. Over the course of reading the tutorial, the child is taught about important topics, including Internet safety laws and online protection options. In addition to discussing the basics of online safety, the tutorial discusses a topic that is less frequently addressed in other tutorials by offering safety tips on chat rooms.
The Police Notebook
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Oklahoma University's online Police Notebook is a website that offers safety tips in a broad spectrum of potential hazards in a child's life. The Notebook's online safety tips advise a child to maintain the same caution they would when meeting a stranger in the real world when they are online, to sign off of a website if they are being made to feel uncomfortable, and to never meet up with an individual from the Internet without discussing it with and receiving permission from the child's parents.
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