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The Teaching Response
Teaching about internet safety is more complex than road safety. There are more issues to cover and there are technical elements to being safe. It's not sensible to attempt to cover every issue. Also too much information in too much detail will only lead to fear and confusion. The teaching approach has to be proportionate to the risk involved and should bear in mind the digital literacy of the students and their existing knowledge of the issues.
So for students in FE there may need to be more emphasis on social networking, copyright and plagiarism issues. For adults there would be more on personal and financial security and keeping PCs free of viruses. While for parents there is a need to keep them aware of child protection issues.
Fortunately there is a huge range of resources available for teaching about e-safety, some of which are pointed to in the course materials above, so there should be no shortage of appropriate resources. Many of the resources are also backed by teaching plans and sample lesson plans.
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