Creative Computing

Session 2Issues of E-safety

E-Safety

What do you think are the issues?

Make a note of the kinds of issues that you think fall under this heading?

“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 – Children and New Technology

How can we empower children to keep themselves safe online?

Contact:

Online grooming

Cyberbullying

Social networking

Content:

Viewing inappropriate content

Plagiarism and content: Copyright

Inaccurate information

User-generated content

Blogging

Commercialism:

E-commerce

Privacy

Junk email or spam

Premium rate services

Contact

• Online grooming

• Cyberbullying

• Social networking

Content

• Inappropriate - How would you respond?

• Inaccurate - How do you know?

• Plagiarism/Copyright

• User generated - “Produsers”

Martin Luther King, by Trikosko, Marion S. [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

Commercialism

• E-commerce• Privacy• Junk/spam email• Premium rate services By Maxi Gago (Own work) CC-BY-SA-3.0

(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)

By MediaPhoto.Org (mediaphoto.org Own work) [CC-BY-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)

E-Safety Resources

• CEOP - Child exploitation and online protectionhttp://www.ceop.police.uk/

• Childnet Internationalhttp://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

Whose responsibility is it to tackle issues of e-safety? (Parents? Teacher? Whole school?)

How do we, as teachers, address the issues through our practice?Responding to incidentsPre-emptive approachesSchool policyYour own professional conduct

confidentiality of pupil informationyour personal/professional online presence

Implications for teacher practice

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