E-safety issues

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2. 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?

3. For young people ICT is not a novelty but the way they engage with their world - 21st century culture • Communicationvia 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!

4. What are the risks? • Content- sexual, racist, violent unreliable/bigoted ie safety of children’s minds • Commerce - scams, phishing and pharming, bluejacking, downloadswhich 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

5. 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!

9. 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 ageshould 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

10. Educational resources - what help is available?www.becta.org.uk/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

11. Concerns are shifting from what children are ‘downloading’ in terms of content to what they are ‘uploading’ to the net. ...no-one is safe!

12. 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)

13. Know It Allwww.childnet-int.org/kia/

14. www.websafecrackerz.com/

15. Parentscentrewww.parentscentre.gov.uk/usingcomputersandtheinternet/Parentscentrewww.parentscentre.gov.uk/usingcomputersandtheinternet/