Parenting with the technology: being tech savvy and cyber-safe.

Monique Dalli – Leader of E-LearningGilroy Catholic College

Our aims this evening:

• Understand their digital behaviours• Have strategies at home that mimic school

boundaries• Specific apps to AVOID• Look at making devices safer

Be equipped with knowledge!!

YOU need to know

• Their passwords!!• How to turn them off!!• When gaming should stop• What your child is using technology for

(school/home)• What they have accounts FOR/IN – negotiated

process• Schools ICT policy

Some strategies. . .

• Getting involved/being nosey! • “Checking” aka snooping• Turning wifi OFF• Charging stations• Skype is GREAT!• Discuss WORST CASE scenarios• Praise safe online behaviour

Putting that into practice at home

• Time limits/digital free time• Password sharing policy• Discussing boundaries• Life mirroring digital life• Punishing where it’s appropriate• Be “friends”

What apps are NOT recommended

• KIK messenger- anonymous messaging service.

• Google Chrome – allows for “incognito” browsing- can search for explicit content.

More no-no’s

WINK

EVEN MORE no-no’s

SNAP CHAT

How does cyber stalking happen?

• Used school newsletter• Searched on instagram• Used location to see if user was nearby• Looked at followers/following lists to stalk

some more

• Are YOU scared ??

What’s wrong with what I found?

• NO FULL NAMES online!• Locations turned OFF• NO external links in your profiles• No SCHOOL UNIFORMS! (sports teams?)• Why do you guys have so many friends?

The REALITY and fine print

• The TOS (terms of service) on instagram you MUST BE 13 years of age.

• IF you come into any misadventure, AND you are under 13, there is nothing that can be legally done.

• “you are solely responsible for your interaction with users online and offline”

• “BY ACCESSING THE SERVICE, YOU UNDERSTAND THAT YOU MAY BE WAIVING RIGHTS WITH RESPECT TO CLAIMS THAT ARE AT THIS TIME UNKNOWN OR UNSUSPECTED “

Who ARE YOU really?

• What would a stranger see about you online?

• Is this the real you?

• How would you feel if your parents READ EVERY WORD and SAW EVERY IMAGE?

• Do you understand how easy it is for creepy people to find you?

Moral of the story

• Private accounts• Be nosey• NO EXTERNAL LINKS!• Be your child’s FRIEND! • My rules or nothing!

What are “Parental Controls”

• Restricts services, apps, downloads, setting changes and can even limit the volume!!

• Can specifically disable the search and download of explicit and age restricted content on itunes, siri, movies and apps.

• YOU keep the password private/secure, NOTE- It cannot be easily reset.

Let’s enable some parental controls!

1. Go to settings- 2. ENABLE RESTRICTIONS3. Change the rating country to Australia4. Turn OFF in-app purchases5. And!! – lock the password in ALLOW CHANGES

Discuss at home WHAT you think is appropriate access/ restrictions.

Q&A ?

• Any general questions ?

Take these down for later:• http://www.bewebsmart.com/• Maggie Hamilton books• http://www.cybersmart.gov.au/