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Helping your family to stay in control

Living with technology. Helping your family to stay in control. Key challenges / issues. Did you know…?. * Ofcom UK Children ’ s Media Literacy Report, April 2011. But remember!. YOU. have the. PARENTAL WISDOM. So… what should you do now?.

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Helping your family to stay in control

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  1. Living with technology Helping your family to stay in control

  2. Key challenges / issues

  3. Did you know…? * Ofcom UK Children’s Media Literacy Report, April 2011

  4. But remember! YOU have the PARENTAL WISDOM

  5. So… what should you do now? 1. Get involved in your children’s online activity at home and TALK Check you know what applications they are using, especially chat rooms and games played with others online. Ask who their ‘e-pals’ are. Get them to teach you about how things work. 2. Support the school Sign the Acceptable Use Policy and take an active interest in what your children are doing in ICT rooms at school. 3. Encourage Internet use that builds on offline activities It helps to keep the computer in a family room not tucked away in a child’s bedroom. Help your children to use the Internet for homework and leisure interests. 4. Agree rules as a family Agree rules as a family about not disclosing personal information; create a family email address for registering online; bookmark your family’s favourite websites; add www.ceop.gov.uk to your favourites if you ever need to report online abuse to the police. 5. Use some of the tools on the computer to help you

  6. Tools • Passwords • Google SafeSearchhelps you to keep adult content out of search results by screening websites that contain sexually-explicit content and removing them from the search results. • YouTube Safety Mode • Parental controls on your Internet service so you can make sure they only see content appropriate to their age (by category or by address); to set limits on how long your child stays online and when they go online; can allow or block/monitor specific programs, like Instant Messenger, hardware like webcams, email addresses, online gaming and gaming websites • Parental controls and separate accounts on your computer • Parental controls on your mobile phone (e.g. Vodafone Content Control) • Parental controls on your games console (e.g. Nintendo DS and important control to turn off 3d for children under 7, Xbox and restriction of Xbox live) • Facebook privacy controls

  7. Summary – what can you do? • Take 10 minutes to look at and set the parental controls on all the devices in your home • Go through the Facebook privacy controls with your child and any other social networks • Set SafeSearch

  8. Looking for more information?

  9. Useful links • Teachtoday: www.teachtoday.eu • Vodafone Digital Parenting: vodafone.com/parents • Mumsnet: www.mumsnet.com • ParentPort: www.parentport.org.uk • The Parent Zone: www.theparentzone.co.uk • Child Exploitation & Online Protection Centre: www.ceop.police.uk • Missing & Exploited Children: www.missingkids.com • Childnet International: www.childnet.com • CEOP: www.thinkuknow.co.uk/parents/parentsguide • UK Safer Internet Centre: www.saferinternet.org.uk

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