YORKTON – Students at Yorkdale Central School were treated to an internet safety presentation courtesy of the RCMP May 2.
"Today we have Adeel [Zaman] coming from the RCMP in Regina to do an internet safety presentation with our grade five, six, seven and eight students," said Dennis Nesseth, Principal at Yorkdale Central School.
"We've done these things in the past just because technology is always changing," said Nesseth, adding, "different platforms come up with different things...there are lots of safety issues with them."
"Most recently in the news people may have been reading about a lot of the artificial intelligence aspects to things like Snapchat and Google," said Nesseth, "there are lots of safety concerns around that."
"Kids are having conversations with AI or Artificial Intelligence forms on Snapchat and I think they're getting advice from it sometimes," said Nesseth, adding, "it just makes sense to educate them and who better to do that than an expert."
Zaman's presentation included subjects such as safe and informed online behaviour, related laws, how to protect themselves and how to report issues they may encounter online.
Nesseth said that a presentation for parents on the subject will be available to attend later in the month.
"May 17, in the evening, 6:30 PM, I've got somebody else coming in to talk to parents and guardians about safety concerns on the internet," said Nesseth, adding, "not only with some of the things that are happening on different apps but also on child exploitation and that sort of thing."
For those interested in their own internet safety, a self-assessment tool is available online through the .
