- FAMILY TIP SHEET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
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ONLINE SECURITY/ TIP SHEET / DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP / REV DATE 2016
www.commonsense.org/educators | CREATIVE COMMONS: ATTRIBUTION-NONCOMMERCIAL-SHAREALIKE
What’s the Issue? Children may not realize they are putting their information in jeopardy, because the
warning signs aren’t always obvious.
- Teach them:
• Not to use passwords that are easy to guess, such as their nickname or their pet’s name.
- These are harder to crack than regular words
because there are more combinations to try.
- Teach them that spam is Internet junk mail.
- They should
not open this mail, because if they do, they wil...
k-5-familytip-onlinesecurity.pdf 
