Winners of the Cyber Wellness Student Ambassador Recognition (Star) Award from Yuhua Primaru, West View Primary and Radin Mas Primary. -- ST PHOTO: TED CHEN
A GROUP of 16 pupils from Radin Mas Primary School got to be teachers for two weeks earlier this year when they went around classrooms in their school to explain to their peers how they can use the Internet safely and responsibly.
The pupils made presentations on topics such as cyber bullying, hacking and online etiquette and then took questions from their schoolmates during the 10-minute sessions. They also directed and produced a cyber wellness video which was uploaded on the school's portal.
Radin Mas Primary was among three primary schools which won the inaugural Cyber Wellness Student Ambassador Recognition (Star) Award for their efforts in spreading cyber wellness messages. The other two winning schools are : Yuhua Primary and West View Primary.
The awards were given out as part of the Cyber Wellness Student Ambassador Programme, a joint initiative started in 2009 by the Ministry of Education, the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore and Microsoft Singapore. Under the programme, yearly conferences are organised to train students or student ambassadors to explain to their schoolmates issues ranging from copyright to password protection and cyber bullying.
Microsoft staff teach the students how to plan and execute cyber wellness awareness projects in their schools during these conferences.
So far about 1,000 student ambassadors have been trained.
