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What you can use from Online Wise in the classroom, and how to use it well.
What you can use
Everything published on Online Wise may be printed, projected and shared within your school for teaching purposes, free of charge. You do not need to ask permission, and there is no licence to register for.
You may quote from an article in your own materials provided you credit Online Wise and link to the page you took it from. You may not present the content as your own, or republish it in full on a school website without asking first.
What it is not
These articles are written to inform, not to be delivered as a lesson. They are not a scheme of work, they carry no assessment, and they are not mapped to a specific curriculum. They are a source a teacher can read in five minutes before a tutor period, and a reference a pupil can be pointed to afterwards.
Using an article in a lesson
The articles that work best in a classroom are the issue explainers, because they are written to be read by a young person directly rather than paraphrased by an adult. Several are written for a young person who is in the middle of the situation, not for one learning about it in advance.
If you are discussing a real incident that has happened in your school, do not use an article as the starting point in front of the pupils involved. Handle it through your safeguarding process first.
Before you use anything here
Online safety information dates. Every article shows when it was last reviewed, and settings described in an article may have changed since. Check the date at the top of the article before you build it into anything you will reuse next year.
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