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E-Safety Awareness Session March 2013

St Michaels Primary Schoolhttp://www.st-michaels.surrey.sch.uk/

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Aims of this session:• To look at how your children are using the

Internet• To raise awareness of E Safety issues• To consider ways of supporting parents/

carers • To offer guidance on keeping your child safe

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Consider how we use these technologiesYoung people

Music Games Chat Instant Messaging IM Blogs Social Networking

Parents / Carers

e-mail Shopping Booking holidays Research

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Some of the technologies your child is experiences to daily …

BLOGS

E-mail

Podcasting

Instant messaging

Gaming sites

Social networking

Chat Rooms

Mobile phones

Video broadcasting

Music Download

sites

Wikies

Which does your child use?

Text

P2Pfile-sharing

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• Blog is short for web log or online diary• Easy to create and use• Easy to add comments and share ideas or

opinions

BLOGS

1% of parents thought their child blogged33% of children used blogs67% of parents didn’t know what a blog wasStats by UK Children Go Online

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Are our children and young people aware of the risks?

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Camera phones Text messages

MP3 player

Mobile TV

Mobile phone

s

e-mail

Downloads

Internet access

Anytime Anywhere

Chat and IM

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• Podcasting is publishing radio style sound recordings on a website. It’s like a radio show stored as an MP3 file.

• By podcasting, you can broadcast to the world without the need for specialist equipment or a licence.

• It is a great way to share work

Podcasting

Podcast’ (from ‘ipod’

and ‘broadcast’)

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• Chat Rooms are websites or part of websites that provide an area for communities with common interests to chat in real time. Many Many

• Instant Messaging IM is a way of communicating with another individual in real time across the internet using text-based not voice communication. One One

Chat RoomsInstant

messaging

79% of children use IM

29% of parents don’t know what IM isStats from Get I.T. safe NCH 11 – 16 year olds

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Wikies

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Social networking

• Based on the idea of networking with friends and friends of friends

•49% of the 3,000 children surveyed by Ofcom have a social networking profile

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Video broadcasting

• Video sharing websites are where users can upload, view and share video clips

• Videos can be rated and the number of times viewed recorded

• Video recorded with mobile phones can easily upload

• YouTube is one of the ten most popular websites

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• Role-play, adventure and life simulations are becoming very popular

• Added extra elements of self-expression and personalisation

• Play on-line with other gamers from around the world

• Play in real-time

Gaming sites

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• File-sharing or peer-to-peer (P2P) are terms used to describe sharing files (resources) directly between computers.

• To get started you will need to download P2P software from a website

• This software creates a ‘shared media’ folder on your computer from which other P2P users can access your files

• You can then exchange music, videos, games etc with other P2P users

P2Pfile-sharing

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Half (49%) of young people questioned say they have given out personal information, such as their full names, ages, email addresses, phone numbers, hobbies or names of their schools, to someone they met on the internet. By contrast, only 5% of parents think their child has given out such information. (Source: UK Children Go Online.)

Prior to the launch of the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP), there was no centralised collection of details of internet-related abuse in the UK, and not all victims reported incidents.

The need for e-safety

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Focussed on the school ensuring children are e-safe by “reducing availability, restricting access and increasing resilience”

Building “children’s resilience to the material to which they may be exposed so that they have the confidence and skills to navigate … more safely”

Ensure that new teachers entering the profession are equipped with e-safety knowledge and skills.

Making explicit teaching and learning about e-safety.

Identifying home-school links as a key issue.

The Byron Review

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The 3 Cs of e-safety

One third of young people who go online at least once a week report having received unwanted sexual (31%) or nasty comments (33%) via email, chat, instant message or text message. Only 7% of parents think their child has received such comments.UK Children Go Online, 2005, 9-19 year olds

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Why is education so important in this area?

55% access the internet everyday47% for an hour or more21% liked IM/Chat the most15% used gaming sites33% had access in their bedrooms25% have met someone offline83% have taken a friend

(CEOP, 2007)

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Challenges Young People Maturity

• Like to post images and reveal personal information

• Want lots of ‘friends’• Talk about their peers• Use inappropriate nicknames• Express insecurities and fantasies• Trick others to make silly, embarrassing,

dangerous acts with video or webcam• Push boundaries

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• CEOP works across the UK and maximises international links to tackle child sex abuse wherever and whenever it happens.

• provides internet safety advice for parents and carers• provides information on internet safety and safe

surfing for young people aged 11 to 16 years • report facility enabling anyone to report any

inappropriate or potentially illegal activity with or

towards a child online

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OrganisationsE Safety information sites for you to be aware of:

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Materials and ResourcesMaterials and resources on e-safety sites which children can use:

Staying safe with Dongle (KS1)

Hector’s World(KS1)

The Smart Crew (KS2)

Cyber Café(KS2)

Us Online(KS2/3)

Lee and Kim(KS1/2)

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E Safety & learning resources to take home:

www.thinkuknow.comhttp://www.childnet-int.org/http://www.bbc.co.uk/webwise/http://www.iwf.org.uk/http://www.getnetwise.org/http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/ iKeepSafe.org http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/topics/stay-safewww.kidsclick.org http://kids.yahoo.com/ www.askforkids.comhttp://www.cybersmart.gov.au/cyberquoll/html/parents.html

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Over to you – consider:• How aware are you of E Safety issues?

• Has your child experienced threats to their E Safety?

• Do you and your child talk about using the internet safely?

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Home and Family Guidelines☺ Practical principles Talk with your children and agree

family guidelines and rules.

Discuss regularly online safety.

☺ Infrastructure Virus and firewall software up to-date, Browser ‘safe search’ enabled.

☺ Education Learn together about new technologies and enjoy! Reflect together about

new technologies, the benefits, dangers and their potential.

☺ Systems Keep webcams in family roomsMonitor time spent on the internet

View the ‘History’ or purchase filtering software.

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For most children, using the wide variety of modern technologies is a

positive and fun experience.

There are wonderful, exciting ways of using the internet positively -

including for homework!

Remember …

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