Online+Safety

Internet Safety or Online Safety is taught to inform others about ways to keep themselves secure from liability, free from hurt, injury, and risk. Guidelines and laws are established to help inform and protect individuals from different types of dangers. Topics might be classified by social, ethical, and legal issues. Many laws have been developed by Congress to help facilitate the education of and protection of our children with regards to the internet and internet safety. Our assignment was to create a lesson that we could implement in our own class to discuss internet safety. The issue I chose to discuss was Identity Theft. 



Reflection: The occurrence of Identity Theft is currently on the rise at an alarming rate in our society. With the development of new technologies, the world has become a smaller place. The method in which criminals can now assume your identity is frightening. As our high school students prepare for college, they will be saturated with many schemes via the email that will try and get personal information. I wanted to develop a lesson that would educate my students on the seriousness of identity theft. I think this is a valuable lesson to be implemented in the high school curriculum for internet safety. As students become older, they are under constant exposure to credit card schemes and other “scams” on a daily basis. By educating the students on what identity theft is and how it can be prevented, the students will be more knowledgeable on this ongoing problem in the digital environment.