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How can I help learners stay safe online?
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Resources for teaching and learning about online safety
In October 2026 we facilitated a 3-part exploration of how of how to stay safe in the digital world.
We looked at curriculum resources and tools that support teaching and learning about how to protect ourselves, our devices and our data from online harms. These lessons will help literacy instructors and learners develop knowledge and practices to:
- Implement basic security measures
- Identify and avoid potential dangers such as scams, fraud and phishing.
- Identify the Personally Identifiable Information that needs to be protected.
- Recognize privacy risks in online activities.
These resources include teacher-facing guides, instructions, objectives and/or teaching tips.
You can find links to all the resources we used in the workshops in these documents.
Curriculum Resources are lessons and modules on various topics covered in the workshop series. We did not use all of the resources in this list but included all the resources we found so that teachers can see the full scope and make their own judgements about what will work for the learners in their programs.
Teachers can supplement these lessons with Teacher Resources. Teacher Resources are not lessons and modules. They are tip sheets and guides that will help teachers answer learner questions or broaden the topics and themes covered in the curriculum resources.
Workshop 1:
What is online safety?
We started with learning activities that
- introduce learners to the topic of online safety; and
- provide an overview of some of the places where we need to set up protections for ourselves.
Keeping accounts safe
Then looked at some ways we can create good passwords and how to implement multi-factor authentication solutions and explored lessons about the difference between passwords and passphrases, how to use password managers, and how to set up multi-factor authentication for our accounts; and test some tools for creating and testing passwords.
Workshop 2:
Identifying and avoiding scams, phishing, and fraud
We looked at
- lessons about identifying different online dangers (such as social engineering and phishing) and introduce learners to practices that can protect them from online scams and fraud; and
- resources that provide tips safe web browsing habits and how to protect your device.
Workshop 3:
Protecting our privacy and personal data
We looked at lessons and tip sheets that help us understand:
- what online privacy means;
- our rights and protections; and
- how we can protect our data and privacy.
We provided an annotated list of resources for teaching possible online safety next steps:
- search engines and tracking;
- staying anonymous online;
- email and message encryption; and protecting ourselves on social media sites.
This resource from AlphaPlus was created by Tracey Mollins after a Learn Together workshop series called Teaching and Learning about Online Safety.
Learn Together
Learn Together workshops cover those topics where, as teachers, we may not be comfortable with our level of content expertise or our ability to stay current with constantly evolving developments. These workshops focus on a learn-together approach where teachers and learners can explore the topic together and expertise may be distributed differently. The teacher remains the expert in how to design the learning experience and curate the most effective resources to support that experience. In Learn Together workshops we explore curriculum resources that include teacher-facing guides, instructions, objectives and/or teaching tips and support instructors to:
- Cover a topic comprehensively.
- Build a series of lessons that flow together.
- Learn content alongside learners rather than feel pressure to be the expert.
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