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So how best to ensure students make good decisions online? Regulations? Contracts? Codes of practice? Here's Nancy Willard: "The basic format I am now recommending is that you survey students at the school location about their standards and why they adhere to these standards. Schools will find that the vast majority of students are making positive choices. Then you tell students what the majority of their peers are saying - and this should result in a greater number of them choosing to make positive choices." As per, she says, Craig and Perkins. I've been following Nancy Willard's work on internet safety for two decades now, and I'm not sure there's anyone in the field better informed.

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