TeacherTECH and the San Diego Police Foundation Present: Bridging the Digital Divide - What Teachers and Administrators Need to Know

Middle School, High School, Community College and Continuing Education Educators and Administrators are invited to attend a special TeacherTECH Tools Series offered in collaboration with the San Diego Police Foundation and the San Diego Crimes Against Children Task Force. The workshop is focused on keeping you and your students safe in Cyberspace. 

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

4:30pm - 6:30pm

San Diego Supercomputer Center, Auditorium

University of California, San Diego

Workshop Overview 

In this workshop, you will be provided with the tools you need to keep your students safe in cyberspace. You will also learn about the legal issues educators must be aware of in cyberspace and the boundaries you may want to keep surrounding online relationships with students and their parents. Come learn about the latest trends and dangers in cyberspace and get your questions answered

Expect to be shocked.

Expect to be disgusted.

Expect to feel overwhelmed.

and

Expect to feel Empowered.

The seeming anonymity of the Internet has opened the door to new threats.

Would your students tell you if they were “in trouble” online?  Most students say they would not tell a parent or teacher. The San Diego Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force and San Diego Police Foundation are providing teachers with the tools they need to facilitate smart cyber choices for our fist online generation.     

Young people aren't receiving adequate instruction in America’s classrooms to use digital technology and navigate cyber space in a safe, secure and responsible manner and are ill-prepared to address these subjects, according to a new poll released by the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) and supported by Microsoft Corporation.

Zogby International, surveyed more than 1,000 teachers, 400 school administrators and 200 technology coordinators in the United States between December, 2009 and January, 2010. They discovered that more than three quarters of U.S. teachers have spent fewer than six hours on any type of professional development education related to cyberethics, cybersafety, and cybersecurity within the last 12 months. Despite this lack of professional development and consistent teaching of Internet safety, the survey shows that America's teachers, school administrators, and technology coordinators strongly agree that cyberethics, cybersafety and cybersecurity curriculum should be taught in schools. San Diego educators now have the opportunity to learn firsthand from the Internet Crimes Against Children task force and the San Diego Police Foundation’s SafetyNet program how to keep their students and themselves safe in the cyberworld.

The SafetyNet program has proven workshop outcomes:

• 87% of educators rated the activities as "very valuable" or "extremely valuable".
• 28% increase in student willingness to tell an adult if something made them uncomfortable online.
• 95% of students said they learned something from teachers relaying the information they had learned.

Please join us for an exciting and informative discussion and hands-on learning presented by the San Diego Police Foundation and the San Diego Internet Crimes Against Children task force and the Cybersecurity Team at the San Diego Supercomputer Center.

Registration is free. Refreshments will be served.

CLICK HERE to register.     For questions, please contact Ange Mason at 858-534-5064 or amason@ucsd.edu to reserve your space.

For information on other TeacherTECH workshops, including summer workshops for students, please see http://education.sdsc.edu/teachertech.