The MPAA is working with a number of well-established, well-respected organizations to develop and distribute educational materials for teachers and students.
Parents and educators are mostly able to monitor the places kids go and the people they see in the physical world. But in the unseen digital world, we are often unaware of the sites they visit and the strangers they meet in chat rooms. Getting into trouble is easy, even for kids who try really hard to do the right thing.
"It's vitally important for people – especially parents and educators – to understand the risks of the online environment," said MPAA Chairman and CEO Dan Glickman. "Kids are subject to everything from being exposed to pornography or tempted by piracy to, most severely, being preyed upon by child predators. That's why we are devoting resources to educational outreach and working with organizations like Wired Kids and Weekly Reader to get information to parents, teachers and internet users.
Weekly Reader
The MPAA is working with Weekly Reader to provide 5th–7th graders in 20,000 schools with educational materials about the importance of protecting copyrights. The new curriculum features Lucky and Flo – the world’s first-ever DVD sniffing dogs – to get the message about intellectual property to children in a fun way.
The Weekly Reader curriculum will educate children about copyright theft and various forms of piracy, how to identify counterfeit DVDs, the consequences of film piracy, and most importantly, why protecting copyrights is important to them. The curriculum includes: a teacher’s guide, workbook for students, and posters for classrooms and libraries.
Educator’s Guide Student’s Guide Poster
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The MPAA is partnering with Wired Kids, the largest online safety and help group in the world, to help in their effort to educate kids and parents about the 4Ps of Internet awareness: privacy, predators, pornography and piracy.
Wired Kids has developed a educational program which is available online at www.peers2peers.org. It provides a start-to-finish class project aimed at getting kids to think about the issue of piracy by developing an ad campaign or public service announcement about responsible technology use and respect for intellectual property in cyberspace.
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