The White Hatter Programs List
This session is designed to help youth online understand the basics when it comes to privacy and security in the connected world. No amount of filtering or monitoring tools are as effective as critical thinking skills, and the understanding of behaviours and their potential consequences.
Emotional, professional, legal, and reputation challenges students may encounter online at this age and beyond into adulthood. To make choices to protect and create better experiences. How can this effect opportunities, and future personal or professional relationships? We aim to empower youth and allow them to critically think about the impact of their digital choices and their effects on those around them resulting in positive or negative outcomes.
Critical information to protect students from challenges they may come across online: hackers, scammers, predators, and cyberbullies etc. Not every bad thing is a criminal police matter. Aggressors from other countries may not face consequences. A successful hack or scam may not have easy recovery. Students will learn what the most common challenge are and how they can empower themselves to avoid and overcome difficult or dangerous situations online.
Middle school plays a pivotal role in shaping students' academic and personal development, equipping them with essential skills for future success. During this phase, it is common for students to have already established an online presence. However, navigating the digital landscape, where limitless possibilities exist, requires an understanding of the nuances for safe and fruitful online experiences.
Focuses exclusively on two subjects, sharing nudes and bullying. Both subjects are independent but oftentimes coincide. Online aggression, violence, and threats are not something that should be ignored given their prevalence online. Victimization can occur from schoolmates, friends, family, and random anonymous interactions.
Through a balanced approach, we will discuss how to safeguard privacy, manage data, and prevent exploitation, while also emphasizing the importance of stepping away from screens to maintain overall well-being, such as improving sleeping habits and keeping the phone off to maximize personal achievement, both online and offline.
This presentation is designed to provide students with proactive reflective online critical thinking and decision-making strategies, that youth can immediately put to good use. This virtual live training offers the knowledge, information, and empowerment, based on academically peer-reviewed research, case studies, and our online investigative experience that teens and young adults need to know.
This session focusses exclusively on two subjects - sexting and bullying. Both topics are independent of one another but often inter-connected. The social and legal circumstances of these behaviours can often be misunderstood, we aim to clarify the facts and risks.
This program will provide students with proven techniques to optimize and leverage their social media presence when it comes to university, college, sport, and career opportunities.
This program is designed for a Gr 11 or 12 law studies class. Many students are not aware of the relatively new legal consequences of today’s online world, and how their actions online can lead to an arrest and conviction under the Criminal Code of Canada, or the associated civil law consequences. This program will provide students with the current case law surrounding a variety of criminal and civil consequences to online behaviour.
Helping parents to proactively understand the enabling power of technology and mobile communications, but also how to mitigate the sometimes unintended consequences of high risk or undesirable online behaviour.
An overview of the various tools and resource available for families to help manage online connection and communication. No software or hardware tool is 100% effective, but learn about the products and resources that we recommend to families.
This program covers teen “sexting” based on academic peer-reviewed research, laws, and our investigative experience to help teens understand consent, choices, consequences and how they can take specific actions to reduce legal liability and reduce harm emotionally, psychologically, physically and socially specific to this subject.
This program aims to help parents and caregivers support youth who may find themselves subject to various forms of aggression online. We will outline concerning signs to looks for.
Anecdotally, and from a peer reviewed research perspective, we know that technology can have a less than desirable effect on sleep patterns. Research has also provided evidence that there is a correlation between sleep deprivation, inhibited learning and being able to self-regulate emotions. In this webinar we will be looking at the correlation between technology, sleep challenges, inhibited learning, and emotional self-regulation and what parents can do overcome these challenges.
Parents love to share and promote, through pictures and posts, how proud they are of their children in their social media. However, could these pictures and postings have unintended consequences to their child later in life? In this webinar, we talk about, and provide examples of something called “sharenting.”
This parent and caregiver presentation covers information specific to understanding what online predation and exploitation is, what is looks like, and what parents and caregivers can do to help reduce the risks to pre-teens and teens.
The session focuses on four key areas of concern—online predation, hate/radicalization, pornography/hyper-sexualization, and public shaming. Parents will learn practical strategies to address these issues through education, active participation, open communication, and understanding the difference between mentoring, monitoring, and spying.
This session will help families create healthy gameplay boundaries based upon credible peer-reviewed research, stories, and first-hand examples of the positives and negatives of online gaming. We will also examine the research surrounding the debate of gaming addiction.
Working professionals are not exempt from the threats posed by hackers and scammers. Individuals who handle private client information, manage substantial sums of money, or possess privileged access have a heightened responsibility to adhere to the best security practices.
Helping older adults to navigate the online world with confidence and security. This program aims to equip seniors with the knowledge and skills they need to harness the benefits of technology while staying safe.
Great add-on to any virtual program, or as an addition to the video on demand education videos that we now offer. Presently, we coordinate for a 15-minute Q&A at the end of all our virtual presentations. With our live broadcasting platform, students and educators can type in pre-questions before any virtual presentation to get the most out of the virtual experience