1. Online Safety
Coaching Module for Parents
2 Hour Training
By: Amber Burkholder

2. New Media Literacy Skills
Please fill in your graphic organizer with the new
media literacy skills that need to be taught to
your children.
New Media
Literacy Skills

3. New Media Literacy Skills
The New Media Literacies. (2011). Project New Media Literacies: Learning in a Participatory Culture.
Retrieved June 10, 2012, from http://www.newmedialiteracies.org/the-literacies.php.

4. Cyberbullying-Jot Thoughts
Please use the post-its at your table to participate in the
Kagan© structure titled Jot Thoughts. You will jot down
an idea of how to prevent and react to cyberbullying on
each post it. The goal of the activity is to fill up the table.
We will then share our favorite ideas with our groups
when the timer goes off. This will help to activate prior
knowledge and hopefully you will make some
connections to the instruction of cyberbullying
prevention.

5. Cyberbullying-Prevention
• Monitor the software your children use
• Make sure your browsers are “kid-safe”
• Block inappropriate cites
• Place computers in visible areas of your home
• Limit the amount of time students use
technology for recreation
• Encourage your children to talk to you about
any problems they are having with others
• Make your children aware of cyberbullying and
why it’s wrong.

6. Cyberbullying-Case Study
Please see your “Cyberbully Case Study”
handout and discuss the questions and
answers related to cyberbullying prevention.

7. Responsibility of Your Child Related to
Online Safety
• Children should critically look at online
resources
• Children should use their best judgment when
interpreting information from the internet
• Children should take responsibility when they
make bad choices such as cyberbullying or
visiting an inappropriate cite
• Children should stay informed and know the
rules of the house concerning technology

8. Parental Role Related to Online Safety
• Encourage your children to know and use New Media
Literacy Skills
• Inform your children to dangers of cyberbullying
• Take the necessary precautions for online safety
• Monitor the information your children are exploring at
home.
• Encourage open communication with your children
concerning online safety.
• Inform your children about the importance of online
safety and their responsibility relating to this.

9. Online Safety-Quiz Quiz Trade
Use the Kagan© Quiz Quiz Trade structure to practice
what you have learned today. You must take a card and
stand up, hand up, pair up with someone that is not at
your table. Then one partner is going to ask a question
and the other is going to respond, if they get it correct
praise them, if they get it incorrect coach them. The
partners then switch roles, trade cards, and find a new
partner.

10. Thanks for Participating!
Please remember to do the quiz before leaving,
these are the questions you practiced during Quiz
Quiz Trade. Also remember to do the evaluation
form survey found on surveymonkey.com to
express how you felt about this coaching module.