Hey Sara!

The internet safety video was a mother's worst nightmare and something I worry about with two daughters who are, like most teens their age, very computer/internet savy. I am concerned about what gets posted however I am most concerned about what gets posted unbeknowst to me rather than what I post myself. A great deal of information is already public and accessible via the internet, more than I think most people realize. For an eye opening lesson on cyber safety check out:
Forensic Problem Solving and Einstein - This lesson addresses a wide range of U.S. core curriculum standards as well as the International Society of Technology Education's National Educational Technology Standards and the American Library Association's Information Literacy Standards. Students will use fifteen seemingly meaningless clues to track down a hacker who has broken into a movie studio computer and stolen three unreleased movies. Based on a puzzle created by Einstein, students will get a clear understanding of the the term "proof" and how to organize and synthesize information. Students will use three different problem solving techniques and solve a puzzle that Einstein predicted could only be solved by 2% of the world's population. This lesson has been used successfully with grades three through college. The powerful cyber safety message of this lesson is delivered to students through the realization that they created complex profiles of all the suspects with seemingly useless fragments of information, and that Internet predators can do exactly the same thing with useless bits of information that children supply.