"Before learners are turned loose on the web to search for information or entertainment they should receive lessons about Internet safety."

Internet Safety With Professor Garfield provides Family Learning Practitioners with an engaging set of lessons that learners and their parents/guardians/carers etc., should remember. Practitioners will also find a teaching guide and printable certificates of completion for their learners.

This engaging and useful site for web safety lessons was produced by The Virginia Department of Education.

Internet Safety With Professor Garfield currently offers...

  • an animated lesson on cyberbullying; and
  • an animated lesson about online safety.

Two further resources are planned...

  • an animated lesson on what Internet sites users can trust; what's true and what's not; and
  • an animated lesson on different forms of media; are the messages good or bad?

The lessons feature Garfield (I bet that didn't surprise you!) and follow the same model; learners...

  • watch a cartoon;
  • take an informal quiz; and
  • then try to apply their new knowledge to a few different scenarios.
Find out more and/or give it a try at http://www.infinitelearninglab.org/.