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Internet Safety Posters for Schools

Online activity now plays a large part in most children’s lives. There are many positive benefits to this – in terms of social interaction,  learning and development. However, online activity can also mean exposure to potential  online risks and harms 

To reduce the number of risks, it’s essential that children know how to keep themselves safe online and what to do when something isn’t quite right. If you are a teacher, displaying, and referencing, internet safety posters in your classroom can be a good way to inform students and keep them regularly reminded.

We’ve made a set of internet safety posters for schools that you can download, print and display as you wish.

Social Media Safety Poster for Schools

Social networking is a hugely popular online activity. Despite most social media platforms carrying age limits of 13, many children and young people regularly access social media. This includes websites and apps, such as Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat, where users can share content, interact with content generated by others and network with people online. 

Social media can expose children to all four of the categories of online risks defined by Keeping Children Safe in Education . These are:

• Content risks – being exposed to illegal, inappropriate or harmful content.
• Contact risks – being subjected to harmful online interaction with other users.
• Conduct risks – online behaviour that increases the likelihood of, or causes, harm.
• Commerce risks – risks with a financial implication.

Social media can bring risks of child on child abuse, including bullying and harmful sexual behaviour, accessing inappropriate content and grooming, amongst others. Groomers often use social media to target children. Grooming is when somebody builds an emotional connection with a child and gains their trust for the purpose of abuse, including sexual abuse (online or in person), sexual or criminal exploitation, or radicalisation.

Therefore, teaching children the importance of social media safety is essential. We’ve made a social media safety poster that demonstrates the often ‘dark’ world of the internet. It shows a child taking a picture of themselves and sending it to someone else. This person then screenshots the image and shares it around, before it eventually ends up with a suspicious looking character. The aim of this poster is to make children think twice before they send pictures. You can download this poster below.

Social Media Safety Poster

Top 10 Tips to Stay Safe Online Poster

We’ve created a poster showing our top 10 tips for staying safe online. You could put this on the wall of your classroom or in a corridor where everyone can see it – it’s a good reminder for children to be cautious in their online behaviour, reinforcing your teaching around online safety within the curriculum. You can download the poster below.

Tips to Stay Safe Online Poster

Keeping Safe Online: Log Out Poster

It’s crucial that children know the importance of logging out of computers and their accounts, such as email and gaming accounts, on shared devices. If they don’t log out, then somebody may easily gain access to the data contained on that computer, including photos and personal documents.

We’ve made an internet safety poster for children that shows the importance of logging out of computers. It shows a stereotypical image of a robber, stealing from a computer – comparing staying logged in to leaving your front door wide open. You wouldn’t leave your home open for anyone to wander in, so you shouldn’t do the same with your computer either. You can download this poster below.

Log Out Poster

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Password Safety Poster for Children

Computer security is important for everyone for a variety of reasons, such as to avoid your accounts being hacked or having strangers gain access to your personal information and documents. Children should be taught the importance of computer security at a young age, so that they can protect themselves online and carry this knowledge through into their adult lives.

We’ve created an internet safety poster for schools that introduces children to the importance of having strong passwords. It shows a child writing a ‘weak’ password on a board in the classroom, which another child can see. This shows that you should never write your password down and that it shouldn’t be an obvious one or one that is easily guessed. You can download this poster below.

Password Safety Poster

E-Safety Poster: Masked Man

When we are online, we never really know who is at the other side of the screen. We can usually be sure that our friends are who they say they are, but this isn’t the case for everyone. The lack of face-to-face contact that comes with the internet gives groomers the anonymity they need to target children. They can lie about their name, age, and occupation and they can pretend that they know the child’s friends or family to try and build a relationship with them. Often, groomers will use information a child has posted to make a connection. Details such as school uniforms in posts or regularly ‘checking in’ to places on social media feeds can provide them with a great deal of information. It’s crucial that children know the importance of not connecting with strangers and understand that not everyone online is who they say they are.

We’ve created an online safety poster that demonstrates this. The poster shows a masked figure sitting behind a computer screen. It illustrates that people are not always who they say they are and so you shouldn’t talk to somebody unless you are certain who they are. You can download this poster below.

Masked Man Poster

Children can encounter a range of online harms and risks, and it is part of a school’s safeguarding duty to make sure that they know how to keep themselves and others safe online. Displaying, and regularly referring to, internet safety posters in your school, like those we have shared with you in this article, acts as a constant reminder of online risks and how children can protect themselves from harm.

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Display age-appropriate online safety advice for kids and young people in your classroom and around your school.

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Get an online safety discussion going in your classroom and send home the conversation starters so students can use them with their parents or carers.

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Internet Safety Posters for Teachers, Students, Schools, and Parents

Please note, this post was last updated in 2018 and I no longer update this website.

Back in the days when technology lived in a computer lab, students were often advised on the narrow topics of cyber safety/internet safety as well as cyberbullying.

While still vital concepts, changes in technology use have given rise to a broader range of important concepts such as digital reputation, etiquette, copyright, health and wellness, and more.

These concepts are generally now defined as coming under the umbrella of digital citizenship.

Digital Citizenship Posts And Resources

To find out more about the best approach to teaching digital citizenship, check out my post from November, 2017

I have also written a post about communicating with parents on the topics of technology use, digital citizenship and internet safety.

Want to learn more about digital footprints? Check out this 2018 post  that breaks down how to cover this important topic in the classroom.

These four posts all contain posters (PDF and PNG) which you are free to display, print, or share.

10 Replies to “Internet Safety Posters for Teachers, Students, Schools, and Parents”

Dear Kathleen,

As usual, you have created clear and simple to use materials for our classrooms, school, and even home now! The tips are fantastic and the posters are simple and will be really effective I think.

In the teacher’s poster, I love your tip about teaching internet safety authentically. It has to have a place in the real world for it to make sense to students.

In the parent’s poster, my favourite tip is to remind children that not everything you read on the internet is true. We used this video and this list of fake websites recently in the classroom and we fooled MOST of the class! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBfi8OEz0rA&feature=player_embedded http://www.180techtips.com/124.htm

My favourite tip from the student’s poster is the YAPPY acronym. I have never heard it before and I will be sharing it with my class this week!

Thanks again for great resources and thoughtful posts! Áine

Thanks for commenting!

I hadn’t seen those resources before for teaching about not believing everything you see/read. I have put them in my Diigo and will be sure to use them!

I’m glad you’ll be using YAPPY in your classroom too. We originally found it on a Garfield cartoon. You can find the link here http://4kmand4kj.global2.vic.edu.au/2012/02/08/safer-internet-day/

Hi Mrs. Morris, I’m Stephanie Gomillion, an EDM310 student at the University of South Alabama. I think you did a great job on the posters! My favorite tips came from the parent poster. The YAPPY tip I’ve never heard of before, that’s a pretty neat idea. The tip on not allowing children to spend all of their free time online is a super good tip!!! Lastly, not allowing children to make accounts on websites that aren’t age appropriate is another great one; I feel like some teachers forget about things like that and have their students make accounts for instagram and such.

Hi Stephanie,

Great to hear from you! YAPPY certainly is a useful acronym to use in the classroom. It is quite sad when you see a lot of children spending nearly all of their leisure time indoors on the computers. Balance is always good! I think a lot of teachers are quite unaware that many websites come with age restrictions. It’s very important that teachers are educated about this.

Hope to hear from you again and good luck with you studies.

Hello! Thank you so much for posting these posters. I found them very helpful and informative! I am about to spend the remainder of the school year teaching a technology class to primary grade students and plan to use this information to help them, myself, and their parents out with their internet safety! Thanks for the tips!

Thanks, Rosemary. Enjoy!

Wonderful set of guidelines for responsible Internet users. As an educator, I am always mindful of my personal behavior on social networking sites and feel it is important for all educators to follow your guidelines as well. I also agree with several others who have liked the acronym YAPPY. Did you coin this yourself, and if so, kudos! What a catchy way to remember what information not to give out. Great job with content and design of the posters, and thank you for sharing them with us.

Thank you! I didn’t make up YAPPY. I discovered it on the Professor Garfield site. Not sure if that is where it originated from but it really resonated with my students.

Thanks for creating and sharing them, Just printed 6 to post around our school 🙂

Fantastic! So glad they were helpful and thanks for letting me know. 🙂

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Internet Safety Campaign

Students create workshops, along with print and digital materials, to create a school-wide campaign to raise awareness and promoting online safety..

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After investigating what it means to be safe online, students will develop a school wide online safety campaign. Students will work in teams to create workshops, along with print and digital materials, for a specific online safety issue they feel passionately about. Teams will deliver the workshops and materials to other students at the school to raise awareness and help students respond safely and appropriately in a range of online situations.

Tweens don’t want to be lectured. Rather than telling them about online safety, start a discussion on this topic by sharing information on how tweens use devices and media. For example, you might show them this infographic from Common Sense Media .

Next, ask students how often they think about safety as they do these activities. By now students should be aware of basic things like not sharing passwords and private information online, but they are probably just at the beginning stages of using social media and all that it entails.

If you want to gently expose students to topics like cyberbullying, watch a video together, like this one from PlanetNutshell .

Work together to come up with a list of safety issues, such as:

• password safety
• inappropriate content
• socializing online
• online etiquette
• cyberbullying

Once students have brainstormed online safety issues, let students know they will inform other students about one of these issues by leading a discussion or activity in person with their class and supporting that work with both print and digital materials, such as a poster and public service announcement.

Work as a class to talk about materials they might use in an Online Safety workshop. Work together to develop a list of products they can create to raise awareness and inform other students. Students may come up with ideas like: posters, badges, stickers, digital stories, comics, trading cards, or public service announcements (PSAs).

Talk about tools and resources, such as Wixie and large format printers, you have at your site for them to create and publish the materials. Share examples of print materials and talk about features the designers used to share the message.

Divide students into teams to create their campaign materials. You could assign a specific topic to each group or let students form teams around the topics that most interest them.

Once teams are formed, team members should begin conducting additional online research, interviews, and/or surveys about the issue they will be responsible for teacher. Once they have developed strong foundational knowledge about their issue, the teams should brainstorm how they might engage other students in the topic using relevant contexts, questions, and situations.

Make sure students have thought about:

• Times they have already encountered the issue personally.
• Other situations that will be familiar to students who may not have encountered the issue.
• Questions and activities that will engage students in this issue.
• Materials they can give to participants to facilitate their workshop, both during and after the event.

Teams should develop a plan for how they will inform students in another class about this issue. Students can use a digital tool, like Wixie , to develop original print and digital materials this topic to support student learning.

Create printed copies of campaign materials to hang in the school hallways, computer lab, media center, or other place students will see them. Have students distribute stickers, posters, and trading cards during free time before and after school, or during lunch.

Share digital materials at a school assembly or on your school’s news station. You can also send digital stories and publics service announcements to your local access television station or online news site to inform a broader audience.

Ask students to use their materials to develop and teach mini-lessons on their online safety issue to other classrooms. They can distribute print materials to students, present their digital work to the class, and facilitate student discussions.

Begin informally assessing student experience with online safety issues as they share a bit about their online experiences. Continue formative assessments of their understanding as you watch and discuss videos or complete your site’s online safely program.

Once the print and digital media campaign materials are complete, you can use them as a summative assessment to determine student understanding of how to stay safe online. You may want to create a rubric or checklist to clarify your expectations for knowledge of safety precautions, clarity of writing, and product aesthetics.

Be sure to use formative assessments during their research and design process. Ask students to share or turn in research notes, graphic organizers, and storyboards to make it easier for you to facilitate effective conversations and identify misconceptions before they share work with other students.

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2. Digital Citizen Students recognize the rights, responsibilities and opportunities of living, learning and working in an interconnected digital world, and they act and model in ways that are safe, legal and ethical. Students:

a. cultivate and manage their digital identity and reputation and are aware of the permanence of their actions in the digital world.

b. engage in positive, safe, legal and ethical behavior when using technology, including social interactions online or when using networked devices.

c. demonstrate an understanding of and respect for the rights and obligations of using and sharing intellectual property.

d. manage their personal data to maintain digital privacy and security and are aware of data-collection technology used to track their navigation online.

d. build knowledge by actively exploring real-world issues and problems, developing ideas and theories and pursuing answers and solutions.

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Internet Safety  - Introduction to Internet Safety

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Internet Safety: Introduction to Internet Safety

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There's almost no limit to what you can do online. The Internet makes it possible to access information quickly, communicate around the world, and much more. Unfortunately, the Internet is also home to certain risks , such as malware , spam , and phishing . If you want to stay safe online, you'll need to understand these risks and learn how to avoid them.

Adopting a safer mindset

Computers can often give us a false sense of security . After all, no one can physically harm you through a computer screen. But to stay safe online, you'll want to take a more cautious approach. Here's one way to think about it: Treat the Internet as you would a shopping mall .

Most people don't consider a mall to be an especially dangerous place. You can go there to shop and meet up with friends. But there are also small things you may do to stay safe, even if you don't think about them very often. For example, you probably wouldn't leave your car unlocked or give your credit card number to a stranger.

Apply this same mindset whenever you're online. You shouldn't be afraid to use the Internet, but remember that it comes with many of the same risks you'd face in the real world. Throughout this tutorial, we'll show you how to prepare for these risks so you can be online without putting yourself in danger.

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Create an Internet Safety Poster

The #up2us anti-bullying resource comes complete with a interactive poster-making kit. This is a great actviity to incorporate as part of Safer Internet Day!

Leading the Interactive Poster Activity

Order your UP2US anti-bullying kit here . Kits come complete with colourful stickers and supplies for creating interactive poster campaigns. If you’re planning to lead an interactive poster making activity as part of your anti-bullying campaign here’s what you should know.

Time needed:  60 minutes

Supplies needed per poster:

• 1 poster sheet
• 1 alphabet sticker sheet
• 1 images sheet
• 1 design sheet
• Colouring utensils (if desired)
• Divide the class into groups of three or four students (working on the posters in small groups will ensure that the posters get completed in the given time). Distribute the supplies, as listed above, to each group.
• Encourage groups to discuss the messages of their posters. Suggest that their posters might contain positive, uplifting messages or some anti-bullying advice . Also encourage the group members to take on different roles . One person might be in charge of cutting out the different design elements, another might be in charge of the message while another might be in charge of the overall design of the poster and might stick the different pictures and designs in place.
• When posters have been completed encourage the students to take photos of the posters and to share the photos online using #Up2Us . Students might also try animating their posters for increased interactivity!
• Leave at least 5 minutes for clean-up and putting the posters on display.
• Remember that any group who runs an anti-bullying activity will be rewarded with FREE wristbands and badges. Just get in touch with us!

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