E-Safety

E-Safety: Risks

What are the e-safety issues for the following school stake-holders?

• School Management

• Pupils

• Teachers

The 3 ‘C’s

Half (49%) of young people questioned say they have given out personal information, such as their full names, ages, email addresses, phone numbers, hobbies or names of their schools, to someone they met on the internet.

By contrast, only 5% of parents think their child has given out such information. (Source: UK Children Go Online.)

Prior to the launch of the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP), there was no centralised collection of details of internet-related abuse in the UK, and not all victims reported incidents.

The need for e-safety education

Contact

•CEOP - Child exploitation and online protection

•Childnet International

•Watch CEOP film ‘Jigsaw’

Jigsaw – Discussion Points

• How could children behave differently online to offline?

• How could they put themselves at risk?

• Other than engaging with strangers, what are the other risks of being online?

• What advice would you give children to help them keep safe?

Content•Inappropriate - How

would you respond?

•Inaccurate - How do you know?

•Plagiarism/Copyright

•User generated - “Produsers”

Commercialism

•E-commerce

•Privacy

•Junk/Spam

•premium rates

Research & Reports

•The Byron Review

•UK Kids Go Online

•Ethical issues for schools

What children say“Kids don’t need protection we need guidance. If you protect us you are making us weaker. We don’t go through all the trial and error necessary to learn what we need to survive on our own… don’t fight our battles for us just give us assistance when we need it.”

Byron Review, 2009

Teaching Practice• Whose responsibility is it to tackle issues of e-safety? (Parents

Teacher? Whole school?)

• How do we address the issues through our practice?

• Responding to incidents

• Pre-emptive approaches

• School policy – Acceptable Use Policy (AUP)

• Your own professional conduct

• Confidentiality of pupil information

• Your personal/professional online presence

Digital Dirt

Professional vs Personal Life

Ofsted – ICT Subject Guidance

Useful Resources• CEOP - Child exploitation and online protection

http://www.ceop.police.uk

• Childnet International http://www.childnet-int.org/

• Thinkuknow resources for children of all ages as well as for parents/carers and teachers) http://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/

• Kidsmart (resources for young children) http://www.kidsmart.org.uk

• Jenny’s Story DVD (an Internet safety resource for KS3)

http://www.childnet-int.org/jenny/index.html

• KnowITall for trainee teachers

http://www.childnet-int.org/kia/traineeteachers/

References

• Byron, T. (2008) Safer Children in a Digital World: Report of The Byron Review, Available: http://www.dcsf.gov.uk/byronreview/pdfs/Final%20Report%20Bookmarked.pdf

• Child Exploitation & Online Protection Centre CEOP - http://www.ceop.police.uk/

• Chilnet International - http://www.childnet-int.org/

• Livingstone, S. & Bober, M (2005) UK Kids Go Online, London: LSE, available: http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/children-go-online/

Weebly

Task• Create a Weebly e-safety resource page

• What are the relevant challenges that children face?

• How could you design page so that it’s a coherent resource and is engaging for pupils?

• Think carefully about the quality for your resources

• How do your resources connect / combine on your page?

• How do you educate rather than frighten children?