Cyber wellness has been important part of MOE‘s drive since 2007 and this programmes have been incorporated into the Civics and Moral education and English curriculum. Cyber Wellness refers to the positive well-being of internet users. It involves an understanding of the norms of appropriate, responsible behavior with regard to technology use as well as knowledge, skills, values and attitudes on how to protect oneself and other internet users in the cyber world. It looks into the positive physical and psychosocial well-being of students in their use of mobile and internet technologies. Our children today belong to an internet generation who are constantly connected. The open nature of the internet poses a danger to our students as it can expose
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The Secondary School Syllabus is designed with the students’ developmental needs in mind and aims to build up from what the students have learned in Primary schools, to progress from the Awareness stage, to the Application stage, and finally to the Advocacy stage. Social network sites, online games, video-sharing sites, and gadgets such as iPads and mobile smart phones are now fixtures of our children ‘culture. Students use them as a platform to explore their friendships, interests and learning (Ito, et al., 2008). At the secondary level, students use the Internet as a platform to explore their identity as they seek to understand how they fit into the world around them. The participatory culture of new media has given rise to new sets of skills beyond just being an internet user but an active producer and contributor in Cyberspace. Regardless of changing technology and evolving issues, the fundamental values and social and emotional competencies for safe and responsible navigation online remain the same across all issues. The Cyber Wellness module focuses on the acquisition of enduring knowledge, skills, attitudes and values to enable our students to manage issues faced while navigating the cyber …show more content…
Its purpose is to examine the impact that different Cyber Wellness programmes (in terms of content, mode of delivery, frequency) have on students risky online behavioural outcomes. Although the results of 3 years of data analyses are reported here, different schools participated over the 3 years. Hence, the study is not longitudinal in nature. The programme variables used in the three studies varied according to the different responses from the different schools that participated in the surveys. Research revealed that teachers tend to lack awareness of the threats of children’s Internet usage, and are short of confidence in their ability to provide appropriate prevention information to children and parents. Besides that, they often find themselves inadequately prepared to assist children in the classroom. Teachers’ lack of confidence and competence may affect the ability to deliver a programme successfully as they are the primary instructors and implementers. Many schools have recognized the importance of their role and have taken on the responsibility. There is a variety of interventions that schools have conducted to promote safe Internet usage among children. From the analysis, school lessons seemed effective for reducing cyber bullying and the incidence of offline meetings, but had no significant effect on other
The Secondary School Syllabus is designed with the students’ developmental needs in mind and aims to build up from what the students have learned in Primary schools, to progress from the Awareness stage, to the Application stage, and finally to the Advocacy stage. Social network sites, online games, video-sharing sites, and gadgets such as iPads and mobile smart phones are now fixtures of our children ‘culture. Students use them as a platform to explore their friendships, interests and learning (Ito, et al., 2008). At the secondary level, students use the Internet as a platform to explore their identity as they seek to understand how they fit into the world around them. The participatory culture of new media has given rise to new sets of skills beyond just being an internet user but an active producer and contributor in Cyberspace. Regardless of changing technology and evolving issues, the fundamental values and social and emotional competencies for safe and responsible navigation online remain the same across all issues. The Cyber Wellness module focuses on the acquisition of enduring knowledge, skills, attitudes and values to enable our students to manage issues faced while navigating the cyber …show more content…
Its purpose is to examine the impact that different Cyber Wellness programmes (in terms of content, mode of delivery, frequency) have on students risky online behavioural outcomes. Although the results of 3 years of data analyses are reported here, different schools participated over the 3 years. Hence, the study is not longitudinal in nature. The programme variables used in the three studies varied according to the different responses from the different schools that participated in the surveys. Research revealed that teachers tend to lack awareness of the threats of children’s Internet usage, and are short of confidence in their ability to provide appropriate prevention information to children and parents. Besides that, they often find themselves inadequately prepared to assist children in the classroom. Teachers’ lack of confidence and competence may affect the ability to deliver a programme successfully as they are the primary instructors and implementers. Many schools have recognized the importance of their role and have taken on the responsibility. There is a variety of interventions that schools have conducted to promote safe Internet usage among children. From the analysis, school lessons seemed effective for reducing cyber bullying and the incidence of offline meetings, but had no significant effect on other