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Teaching Cyber Skills to Middle School Students
You can successfully teach Cyber Skills with the help of Everyday Speech! Learning an advanced conversation skill like Cyber Skills can be challenging but is incredibly important for growth, development, and safety! Everyday Speech’s Cyber Skills goal teaches nuanced digital etiquette. Learners will begin to recognize the intent of online/digital messages and craft appropriate responses while remaining stay and being responsible and respectful. These lessons cover communicating over text, using social media platforms, and talking on the phone.
Lesson Plan – Using Your Free Cyber Skills Activity
1. Introduce the ‘Cyber Skills’
Everyday Speech’s Cyber Skills focus on the importance of staying safe online while also cultivating positive experiencing when communicating with others digitally. The cyber skills include understanding that there is a time and place for when it is appropriate to communicate online and when it is better to talk in person, practicing sharing conversation and not dominating the conversation, practicing the art of thinking it or saying it, and prioritizing safety by not communicating with people we don’t know, sharing our location or personal information, or doing anything that makes us feel uncomfortable or unsafe.
2. Watch Our Cyber Skills Video (click here for a free 30-day trial)
This middle school modeling video teaches students the skills and strategies they can use to improve their cyber skills and stay safe online with a live video model of what it looks like to do so! Check out the free sample clip below! All of our video lessons come with companion worksheets and the ability to share as homework so parents or other educators can be clued into the important work your students are doing!
3. Use Our Free Cyber Skills Activity
Our free middle school Cyber Skills activity is a question and answer worksheet called ‘Cyber Skills: Texting” For this activity, students will read each scenario and write down what text message they should send to prevent miscommunication over text.
Sample Elementary Conversation Topics Video:
This sample cyber skills video is a great enhancement to this lesson! Everyday Speech provides real-life scenarios as age-appropriate actors model new skills. We offer a 30-day free trial for all of our social skills materials!
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