Teaching kids to be safe online

Lori Getz, MA Internet Safety Expert, shares advice for parents on the most important things to teach your children in order to keep them safe online
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Teaching kids to be safe online

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Internet safety, much like personal safety, draws from three principles. We want to make sure that we teach our kids to keep private information offline. We want to teach them not to draw unwanted attention, and never cultivate a relationship with someone they don't know. Personal information and private information are very different beasts. Personal information is things like their name, address, and phone number. All of this information can be accessed online. Private information is different. That is how we are feeling and the things that we are doing. We need to teach our children that the things that are private to us, need to be kept offline.

Lori Getz, MA Internet Safety Expert, shares advice for parents on the most important things to teach your children in order to keep them safe online

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Lori Getz, M.A.

Technology Expert

Since 2004 Lori has worked as an Instructional Technologist in Los Angeles, CA. She has a Master of Arts in Educational Technology from San Diego State University and is certified by isafe.org as an Internet Safety Specialist. In September 2008 Lori founded Cyber Education Consultants and began speaking to students, parents, and educators about Internet safety, security and ethics.  Since that time Lori has reached out to Internet users across the world!  Her mission is simple- to help bridge the gap between a young generation of digital natives and their parents and teachers. 

Today, Cyber Education Consultants provides workshops, professional development and consulting services to more than 100 schools across the country.

Lori is an educator, mother, and Internet safety expert.  She has appeared on the "Dr. Phil Show," "Today," "HLN," “Dr. Drew” and several other local news and radio programs (including the Ryan Seacrest show on KIIS FM).  She often lectures live, speaking to parents, teachers and students. Lori has been published in several areas including as an online expert for momlogic.com and kidsinthehouse.org.  Most recently was featured in Rachel Simmons’ new edition of “Odd Girl Out” and Lucie Hemmen’s, Ph.D “Parenting a Teen Girl.” She is currently working with the “I Have a Plan” series to develop a children’s book on online safety.  Her insight comes from both her professional and personal life working with children, tweens and teens.  

 

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