{"id":51563,"date":"2016-10-17T10:02:12","date_gmt":"2016-10-17T20:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=51563"},"modified":"2020-01-16T14:26:50","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T00:26:50","slug":"school-internet-safety-initiative-informs-hawaiis-youth-about-responsible-online-practices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2016\/10\/17\/school-internet-safety-initiative-informs-hawaiis-youth-about-responsible-online-practices\/","title":{"rendered":"School Internet Safety Initiative informs Hawai\u02bbi&#8217;s youth about responsible online practices"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p>As October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month, the <a href=\"http:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/crdg\/\">Curriculum Research and Development Group<\/a> (CRDG) in the <a href=\"https:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at M&#257;noa<\/a> College of Education is urging all digital citizens to think about how their online decisions and actions affect their safety. The <abbr>CRDG<\/abbr> School Internet Safety Initiative encourages students, parents, educators and community members to be safe, responsible and respectful online.<\/p>\n<p>Cyber security is about the safety of our devices and digital content and how to protect these from unauthorized access. With today&#8217;s reliance on companies to protect personal data&#8212;everything from medical information to bank accounts&#8212;the initiative reminds that the first step of cyber security begins with the individual.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;With so many different kinds of information on our devices, it is crucial for us to protect our content, so it doesn&#8217;t fall into the wrong hands,&rdquo; shared <a href=\"https:\/\/coe.hawaii.edu\/directory\/?person=nguyen\"><strong>Truc Nguyen<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/coe.hawaii.edu\/directory\/?person=lmark\"><strong>Lauren Mark<\/strong><\/a> in a joint interview. &ldquo;Some important tips include protecting and changing our passwords regularly, backing up our data frequently, refraining from opening files from strangers and installing virus protection software.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Internet safety also includes modeling appropriate behaviors&#8212;teaching children the importance of security, ethics, healthy social skills and emotional expression; and practicing smart decision-making, problem-solving and responsibility for one&#8217;s own actions.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about internet safety, please contact the <a href=\"http:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/crdg\/year-in-review\/year-in-review-2012\/school-internet-safety-initiative\/\">School Internet Safety Initiative<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;By Jennifer Parks<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Curriculum Research and Development Group is urging digital citizens to think about how their online decisions and actions affect their safety. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[95,9],"class_list":["post-51563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","tag-college-of-education","tag-uh-manoa","entry","no-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51563"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109505,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51563\/revisions\/109505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}