Computing and E-Safety Awareness Meeting

1. Computing and E-Safety Awareness Meeting How we can keep children safe online as well as ensuring they get the most out of the technology they use.

2. Repton Primary School Computer and E-Safety MeetingObjectives • Forms of Communication and how they are used, • Social Media, • Cyber bullying, • E-Safety, • Gaming, • Computing Curriculum 2014.

3. Questions to consider… As a parent have you: • Researched the site and games your child is about to use? • Understood the potential consequences of allowing your child to access cyberspace unsupervised? • Explained what your child should do if they are subjected to anything offensive at home. Will you report it to the online service (CEOP) or the police? • Discussed stranger danger, so would you allow a stranger to walk into your house and talk to your child? So why allow them the opportunity to speak to a stranger online? • If you want further information after this evening please refer to: thinkuknow.co.uk for E-Safety.

4. Forms of Communication • Ipads/Tablets, • Mobile Phones with Internet Access, • Xbox Live and Play Station Bluetooth headsets, • Facebook, • SnapChat, • Twitter, • Face Time, • Skype,

5. Social Media • Facebook is an online website that is for children of 13 or over. • By having Twitter and Facebook accounts that are not private children are allowing themselves to become open to bullying or contact from older people. • Many children can also now access the internet on their mobile phones as well as other devices that they have. • Snap Chat is also an app that many of the Year 6’s said they had seen or had on their own devices. • Newsround Video • Newsround created a short episode detailing how children can get swept away in the online world and can put themselves in danger.

6. Cyber - Bullying • Using apps like Snap Chat and Facebook as well as Face Time can allow children to become the victim of cyber bullying. • Online communication can mean people mistake the tone that a message is being typed in. • Take 5… Put down the phone or step away from the computer!

7. E-Safety • CEOP safe search engines: • http://kids.yahoo.com/ • http://www.askkids.com/ • http://www.kidsclick.org/ • Report anything that they feel uncomfortable about on the web to CEOP, • Children only talk to people that they know online, • Never give out personal details to someone you do not know, • Face Time is only used with people that they know in person, • They are encouraged to share who they have spoken to online and if anyone who they do not know has tried to speak to them, • Any elder siblings or parents phones/tablets etc. are controlled when used by children.

8. Gaming • Popular games from a survey carried out at Repton Primary School and their content (all for over 18): • Ryse: Son of Rome – a gladiator style game in which the limbs of barbarians are cut of with graphic detail by the player, • Mortal Kombat – opponents compete in different ways to kill each other, ranging from gouging and strategic amputation, • Grand Theft Auto 5 - Players are invited to choose instruments of torture in one particular scene to use on their chosen victims, • This game also involves players randomly killing people on the street to get more money in the game and kidnapping women.

9. The effects of Gaming • Middlesex University carried out research involving children who played these violent games and children who did not. • Children aged between 12 and 14 became more markedly aggressive the longer they played more violent games. • Those up to the age of 5 were found to be most affected by the images they saw on the games, closely followed by those in the 6-11 age bracket. • More than a third of ten year olds in England play computer games for more than 3 hours a day. Child Development Psychologist DrAricSigman pointed out that studies have shown a link between high use of computer games and more erratic behaviour.

10. In May, a Glasgow court heard how a 13 year old boy slashed the throat of a Gears of War 3 gaming rival in a way, reminiscent to the game where they competed against each other.

12. Computing 2014 • A brand new ICT curriculum which will now be called Computing. • Focusing much more on children understanding computers, how programs are created rather than how to use them as well as understanding the concepts of computer science. • Also focusing on how children can stay safe online and behave responsibly.

13. Key Stage 1 • Understand what algorithms are and how they are implemented, • Create algorithms for different purposes, • Recognise common uses of information technology beyond school, • Use technology safely and respectfully, keeping personal information private, understand and identify where to go for help and support.

14. Key Stage 2 • Design, write and debug programs that accomplish specific goals, • Understand computer networks, including the internet, and how it provides multiple services, • Use search engines effectively and appreciate how results are selected and ranked, • Use technology safely, respectfully and responsibly; recognise acceptable and unacceptable behaviour; identify a range of ways to report concerns about content and contact.

15. Questions to consider… As a parent have you: • Researched the site and games your child is about to use? • Understood the potential consequences of allowing your child to access cyberspace unsupervised? • Explained what your child should do if they are subjected to anything offensive at home. Will you report it to the online service (CEOP) or the police? • Discussed stranger danger, so would you allow a stranger to walk into your house and talk to your child? So why allow them the opportunity to speak to a stranger online?

16. Thinkuknow.co.uk • Thank you for listening. • If you would like further information about anything to do with E-Safety please refer to the thinkuknow website.