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Interland by Google - A game to help kids be safe, confident explorers online

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Interland is a web-based game from Google that helps teach kids fundamental digital safety and citizenship skills. The game is just one piece of the Be Internet Awesome program, which aims to help kids be safe, confident explorers of the online world.

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Is it weird that I want to play this?
Maker
definitely not! we built Interland to appeal to a wide range of users :)
This game is so well designed, amazingly done
This is great! I'm adding it to my Digital Citizenship unit to begin the school year! I'll share with my PLN. Thanks!
I played this, it was fun.
great game guys!!!
As others have already mentioned, this is awesome and seems like it will be incredibly helpful in improving students' understandings of how to be safe online. I'm wondering if there are any plans to scale this endeavor to concepts beyond just internet safety. For example, I could see this approach being very effective at teaching broader social emotional learning concepts (a la ClassDojo's recent work). Is this something that's in the pipeline? Or is the focus just on digital citizenry?
Maker
Thanks for the question, Jared -- it's a great thought. We're thinking about expanding the program in a variety of ways, but don't have concrete plans to share just yet. We'll keep you posted!
hi