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E-safety issues
Key messages for today
• Young people and ICT
• Relevant policies and legislation
• Issues and risks
• Role of the school/organisation
• Support available
• What do you need to do?
For young people ICT is not a novelty but the way they engage with their world - 21st century culture
• Communication via email, chat rooms and message boards, IM, SMS, weblogs, social networks, Skype, podcasting……..
• Entertainment – watching films on DVD, downloading music, playing games, taking, storage and retrieval of digital images.
• Education – research, word processing, data manipulation, modelling, design, creativity, recording thoughts
• Personal management – diary, appointment calendars and address books, alarm clock and personal reminders, finding the best party locations!
• Shopping• ...all at the same time!
What are the risks?
• Content - sexual, racist, violent unreliable/bigoted ie safety of children’s minds• Commerce - scams, phishing and pharming, bluejacking, downloads which
steal information - children’s and parents!• Contact - via interactive technologies – IM, chat, multiplayer games• Culture - bullying, camera phones, blogging, moblogging, social networking …..
• The ‘C’ of ICT is the most dangerous ie Communication which can lead to Contact
• Approx 40 - 50 cases in the last 4 -5 years compared to 500 serious road casualties per year!
• The biggest Internet danger is that we concentrate on the dangers and forget the benefits!
• Balance and perspective
Schools and parents should be raising awareness of:
• Internet safety – keeping personal information secret across all technologies – email, chat,
IM, mobile– bullying across all technologies including camera phones & blogs– people online may not be who they say they are
• Internet security– spotting copycats websites and scams– viruses and spam via email– if it looks to good to be true it generally is
• Media literacy– evaluating reliability/validity of information– copyright and plagiarism– P2P networks - allow anyone to publish videos and large files to anyone
who needs them eg Napster and Gnutella, music and porn!
Issues for schools and parents to consider
• Who is responsible for teaching e-safety?– In primary phase?– Whole-school issue of child safety not ICT!– Technological issues
• At what age should internet safety lessons start?• How can parents be involved?• What support is there in schools for teachers in the event of
a ‘disclosure’?• Advent of 3G and ‘mobile internet’• Protection for staff – AUP• Identifiable/contactable/pupil email addresses/images on
web sites• Accessing inappropriate web content at school• External issues being brought into school – eg cyberbullying
Educational resources - what help is available?Educational resources - what help is available? www.becta.org.ukwww.becta.org.uk/publications/publications
Primary:
• The Internet Proficiency scheme for KS2
• Smartsurfers for KS2
• Others…
Secondary:
• Signposts to Safety for KS3/4
• Childnet International -
‘Know IT All’ for KS3
• Think U Know
• Others….
Parents:
• Parentscentre
• KnowITAll for Parents
Concerns are shifting from what children are ‘downloading’ in terms of content to what they are ‘uploading’ to the net.
...no-one is safe!
What help is available for the Primary phase?What help is available for the Primary phase?
Education and training
• The Internet Proficiency scheme for KS2 (UK)
• Netsmartz (US)• Disney (US)• Faux Paw (US)• Internet Superheroes (US)• Smart Surfers (UK)• CBBC – Stay Safe (UK)• Hector Protector (NZ)
Know It Allwww.childnet-int.org/kia/
www.websafecrackerz.com/
Parentscentrewww.parentscentre.gov.uk/usingcomputersandtheinternet/