As young people are proactive members of online communities, it is important to provide them with the knowledge and skills needed to behave responsibly and to gain the maximum benefits from ICT.

This website responds to a frequently voiced request of the educational communities – it is developed for them, by them, in interaction with pedagogical and safety experts and leading actors from industry. Together they will develop the site to keep apace with technology and the issues it raises, in order to create a safer online environment.

TeachToday places children at the heart of technology and builds around several key themes that teachers underline as being the major issues of concern today: cyberbullying, searching the internet, well-being and health and privacy and personal safety. It provides users with best practice resources developed by leading experts across Europe. These are complemented by out-of the-box lesson plans ready for immediate implementation in either primary or secondary school classes.

A multi-strand forum offers school staff opportunities to interact with peers, safety experts and industry across Europe, to exchange information and practice and find just-in-time responses to their queries. An integrated opinion poll constantly gauges top safety priorities for school communities to ensure that the site meets evolving needs.

Participating companies are AOL, BEBO, Buongiorno, Deutsche Telekom /T-Mobile, Facebook, Google, GSMA Europe, Microsoft, MySpace, Orange, 02/Telefonica, Telecom Italia, Vodafone and Yahoo! Europe.
More information at: http://www.saferinternet.org/ww/en/pub/insafe/news/articles/0408/teachtoday.htm