Google improves their online education tools for teaching kids to be safe online...

Google improves their online education tools for teaching kids to be safe online.

Four years ago Google lunched ‘Be Internet Awesome’, an online training program designed to assist teachers and parents teach young children about safe internet behaviours. Today they have announced an expansion to the program introducing 11 new lesions and refinements to the original content.

Google commissioned the University of New Hampshire’s Crimes Against Children Research Center to evaluate the program. From this evaluation, it seems that participants do indeed show an improvement in their comprehension around online behaviours.

The enhanced program now offers more content targeted at specific ages, imprved teacher and parent tools and expandedthe contetn to cover the increasingly important topsic of online video and gaming. IS this goign to be the single panacea for all of our internet behavious isseus? of course not, but it’s a lot better tha nhaving no tools at all.

Like any program like this, this should be a starting point. Parents and teachers can use these tools to start a childs awareness and as a srtating point for discussion of rhese topics. All of our kids a 4 years older now and I know for my self that I’ll be sitting down with my 8 year old this weekend and doing the program with her.

You cna access Be Internet Awesome here.