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E-Safety – A Whole Community Approach

Internet safety in secondary school

MaryLouise Morris

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ENGAGING…… and changing the world

ENTERTAINING ……and having fun

EDUCATING….and helping their peers

FOUR THEMES:

EXPRESSING their creativity

Hanging outSocial technology

Identity

Rank doesn’t matter

Taking Risks is part of growing

up

What’s positive for young people?

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Understanding the technology

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Mobile phones

Great for:

Keeping in touch by voice or text, taking and sending pictures and film, listening to music, playing games, going online and sending emails.

Examples of misuse:

Sending nasty calls or text messages, including threats, intimidation, harassment. Taking and sharing humiliating images. Videoing other people being harassed and sending these to other phones or internet sites.

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Instant Messenger

Great for:Text chatting live with friends online.

Keeping in touch while working on other things.

Examples of misuse:Sending nasty messages or content. Using

someone else’s account to forward rude or mean Messages via their contacts list.

E.G MSN Instant messenger

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Email

Instant messenger

VOIP (Skype)

Social networking

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Chatrooms and Message Boards

Great for:Groups of people around the world can text or voice chat live about common interests.

Examples of misuse:Sending nasty or threatening anonymous messages. Groups of people deciding to pick on or ignore individuals. Making friends under false pretences—people pretending to be someone they’re not in order to get personal information that they can misuse in a range of ways—for e.g., spreading secrets or blackmailing.

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Email

Great for:Sending electronic letters, pictures and other files quickly and cheaply anywhere in the world.

Examples of misuse:Sending nasty or threatening messages. Forwarding unsuitable content including images and video clips, or sending computer viruses. Accessing someone else’s account, for example, to forward personal emails or deleting emails.

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Webcams

Great for:

Taking pictures or recording messages. Being able to see and talk to someone live on your computer screen.

Examples of misuse:Making and sending inappropriate content. Persuading or threatening young people to act in inappropriate ways. Using inappropriate recordings to manipulate young people.

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Social Network sites

Great for:Socialise with your friends and make new ones within online communities. Personalise homepages and profiles, create and upload content.

Examples of misuse:Posting nasty comments, humiliating images / video. Accessing another persons account details and sending unpleasant messages, deleting information or making private information public. Groups of people picking on individuals by excluding them—blocking contact or deleting them from friendship lists. Creating fake profiles to pretend to be someone else, for example, in order to bully, harass or get them into trouble.

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web sites

music

photos

text

video...

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Video Hosting Sites

Great for:View video clips and short films and upload

your own.

Examples of misuse:Posting embarrassing or humiliating film of someone.

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Understanding the safety issues

‘If you took away my phone you would take away a part of me!’

(comment from girl 15 from Childnet’s research 2003)

79% of YP use the Internet privately without their parent’s supervision

One third of 9-19 year olds report having received unwanted sexual (31%) or nasty comments (33%).

57% of 9-19 yr olds have come into contact with online pornography

74% of young people in the UK say that they are aware of internet safety messages.

49% of young people say that they have given out personal information

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Delivering e-safety in the Classroom

Jenny’s Story Know IT All For Parents Cyberbullying Film

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Communicating with teenagers

PreventionPrevention

1. Emphasis on dialogue rather than set of rules

2. More emphasis on their behavior and responsibility.

3. Reference to the law

4. Use of case studies

5. More detailed and specific advice

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Jenny’s Story

Jenny’s Story DVD

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PreventionPrevention

To help raise pupils’ awareness of potential risks, especially online grooming, when using interactive Internet applications.

To help pupils reflect on their own online behaviours.

To inform pupils of the strategies they can employ to prevent getting into difficulties online.

Counter the risks

Objectives

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Lesson Plan Overview

1How do you use the Internet?

2What are the benefits?

3Introduce DownsidesShow Jenny’s Story

4Clarify Questions 5 Discuss strategies forGetting out of difficult situations

6Remember what’s great!

Aim: to set the context and assess the group

Aim: to find out what the pupils like, and to set a positive background

Aim: to introduce the negatives, getting the pupils to tell you first.

Aim: make sure everyone is clear about the story, answer questions if necessary replay sections

Empower the pupils Always end on a positive note!

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PreventionPrevention

Would the pupils now give out personal details online to someone that they didn’t know?

Would the pupils still meet up with someone they met online without telling anyone?

If the pupils were concerned about anyone they had met online, would they tell someone?

Having watched Jenny’s Story, has it changed the pupils’ views about passing an unknown person’s details onto a friend?

Has it given the pupils strategies for how to get out of difficult situations online?

Counter the risks

Assessment

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Know IT All for Parents

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Cyberbullying film and guidance onwww.digizen.org

Cyberbullying

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Think before you send pictures of someone via email, or mobile phone, they can spread far beyond your circle of friends.

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Don't delete messages from cyberbullies. You don't have to read them, but you should keep them as evidence

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Don't reply to abusive or worrying text or video messages. Your mobile service provider will have a number for you to ring or text to report phone bullying.

You have a right not to be harrased and bullied online, make sure you tell someone.

If you receive a rude image or text about someone else do not forward it, you could be assisting a bully or breaking the law.

Treat your password like your toothbrush, don’t let anyone else Use it!

Advice for Young People

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Questions?