Street violence, school violence, street safety, internet safety, internet stalking and harassment - these are all critical issues facing our kids today. From our streets to the information superhighway, kids face risks and challenges as they negotiate the modern high tech world. More than ever before our kids need to develop the skills of critical thinking, awareness, avoidance and conflict resolution, and need to find empowerment, self confidence and inner calmness - both on and offline. Two San Jose organizations, New School Aikido and SafetyEd International, with sponsorship from San Jose City College, have responded to these fundamental needs by combining their vast experience to create the world's first combined Aikido-Internet Camp for kids, designed to teach safety, awareness and avoidance skills for both online and offline situations. While others have been theorising year after year about the importance of teaching kids safe internet skills, SafetyEd has clocked up thousands of hours of practical experience teaching hands on Internet skills and critical thinking to kids, with a strong safety component.
All children deserve to be safe on our streets.
The concepts and techniques we teach give them the tools to be aware of and to avoid violence, without traumatizing themwith violent acts or violent images. As an Internet teacher he has taught more than 10,000 hours of practical, effective, amusing and realistically focused Internet skills and safety classes online in real time to kids, teens and adults, using original, innovative and pioneering programs. He is an internet advisor to both California State and US Federal Government, an instructor to Law Enforcement Agencies, and is regularly seen on TV speaking on Internet topics. He is also an instructor with New School Aikido and regularly teaches Aikido to K-12 kids in a number of public and private schools in Silicon Valley. Our 4-day Internet skills and safety course is age appropriate, great fun and is sensitive to the issues at hand.