Online-safety for Parents and Carers Welcome

Welcome Wide and flexible range of information Access anywhere anytime A key skill for life Why do we use Technology Welcome: Key reasons why we use ICT in our life. Young people do all of this naturally now through school or as part of their daily life Easy to communicate with friends and family Motivate and fun Raise standards

Some of the technologies…… Mobile phones What next ??? Instant messaging BLOGS VLOGS Social networking Music Download sites E-mail Gaming sites Podcasting Wikies Chat Rooms Video broadcasting P2P file-sharing This slide identifies some of the technologies currently being used by our children and young people. What Next ??? New technologies are continuing to evolve and will probably link location to the user which will raise many eSafety issues. We need to ‘watch this space’! The following slides look at some of these technologies in greater detail to help clarify understanding. The following do not have slides but here are the definitions if needed: eMail – many adults used email as part of their daily life. Wiki ( Hawaiian word meaning quick) – First Wiki was in 1995. It is a simple piece of software that allows users to freely add, remove and edit Web page content using any Web browser. It has an “open editing" concept which means that anyone can edit the content with the changes being tracked. Wikipedia is the most well known – a web based encyclopaedia. It is a really good place to go to find out definitions Text

How does the internet make our lives better? 19 – who can name them all?? What don’t you recognise/use?

What are the 3 best things about the internet for you? Blogs Video Finding things out Music These are the common examples used by most young people. What are the 3 best things for you? Games Creating News Chatting

Moving on…… Download Upload Consume Create “Corporate” Personal (Parents / Carers) Young people Download Upload Consume Create “Corporate” Personal The Internet is a changing environment. We only have to think back to our school days to realise how ICT has developed. You may have come across the phrase Web 2.0, this describes new ways of using the Internet – the new technologies We mostly download, but children and young people are increasingly into putting their own things online (uploading) We tend to consume/ use information that is already online, young people like to create. In the early days of the internet many large companies moved into the corporate space and dominated everything. Now it is often about what individuals do for themselves with many companies, organizations and ISPs, such as the BBC providing personal space for blogging, etc.) We are now seeing the separate media blend together with Mobile phones as a good example. They (e.g.Smart phone, iPhone) now enable users able to make calls, play music, navigate the Web, edit photos, play movies and send text message, among many other capabilities. Young people are sometimes described as digital natives. They have grown up with the Internet and the associated technologies. They consider them an essential part of daily life, not a luxury. We are often called digital immigrants because we have not grown up with the technology and often lag behind our children with our understanding We are also seeing a large change in how the technologies are being used – with uploading concerns as great as downloading We also see good verses bad i.e. Informative, creative, dynamic, owned learning…..untrue, libellous, vicious, innocent/ naïve information sharing Separate media Converged media Static Interactive

? School Home Supervised Monitored Filtered Curriculum 75% of homes have access to the internet 19% of young people have internet access in their bedroom More than half of all children (53%) are never or hardly supervised online by their parents / carers 81% of parents think they know what their children are doing all or most of the time when access the internet UK Children Go Online, 2005, 9-19 year olds The SouthWest Grid for Learning provides a filtered access. School monitors pupils and have acceptable use policy/ pupils rules. The curriculum supports eSafety. What happens in the home?? Supervision at home important but can be difficult because our young people protect their privacy. Ideally we all should work together to provide the same message. . Schools often provide internet usage in an ‘enclosed’ environment – heavily restricted, but once children and young people are outside of school there is often limited supervision (with even less restriction when children use mobile phones)

? School Home Supervised Monitored Filtered Curriculum 75 (84)% of homes have access to the internet Increase from 17m-38m daily users. Mobile access doubled from 24%-58% 2010-2014 19 (61)% of young people have internet access in their bedroom More than half of all children (53%) (94) are never or hardly supervised online by their parents / carers 81 (74)% of parents think they know have no idea what their children are doing all or most of the time when access the internet UK Children Go Online, 2005, 9-19 year olds Microsoft 2014, 3-19 year olds Look at changes in data over the last 10 years and discuss. Main changes are in how we access and on what device. No longer can we say place PC in lounge!!

? School Home Supervised Monitored Filtered Curriculum 78% of 10-12 year olds have social media accounts 49% of under 13’s have a Facebook account 41% under 13’s are on Instagram 40% have received negative comments on a photo they have shared 35% of boys and 51% of girls worry about how attractive they look when sharing photos online Digital Parenting, under 13 year olds Look at changes in data over the last 10 years and discuss. Main changes are in how we access and on what device. No longer can we say place PC in lounge!!

Some of the key risks online

Key online risks

Scenario Tom is in year 5. His favourite game online is Minecraft and he loves chatting to his school friends on it and building bigger and better castles. One day though he came into school and he noticed his best friend Harry was more quiet than usual. He asked him what the problem was and Harry told him that on Minecraft the night before someone had destroyed the castle he had just created and was saying mean things to him. Harry said that this wasn’t the first time it had happened but he didn’t know how to stop it. Tom could see that his friend Harry was upset and he wanted to help him. What good digital deed could Tom do for Harry? Discuss

Scenario Joanna and Sarah were walking home through the park when they both received the same Whatsapp message. They opened it to see an inappropriate picture of a girl in their class, Rebecca. They were embarrassed to see it but they didn’t know what to do as it was from a number they didn’t know. Then they received a follow-up message that said ‘If you don’t forward this on to at least 4 people, I will tell everyone you were the one who sent the photo of Rebecca’. Joanna and Sarah were scared. What should they do? Discuss

Scenario You are on Instagram and a photograph of Aysha from school is being posted on many of your friend’s Instagram profiles. The photograph of Aysha shows her doing something a bit silly, and all your friends are posting this photo with the hashtag #regram. All your friends are re-posting this image and you feel a bit pressured to the same on your Instagram profile. What action should you take? # Discuss

Apps to look out for

What can I do? Parent as you normally would do, including reminding children about dangers Clear ground rules for use Be aware of what sites/apps they are using - friend them where possible and select privacy settings Report abuse to app provider/school Screenshot evidence Use the technology available to you e.g. filtering in the home

What can I do? Tootoot All pupils have a log in to this service. Provides an anonymous way for them to report any issues and attach screenshots, etc. Picked up by senior staff and available all day every day

Home filtering Sky – Broadband Shield BT – BT Family Protection Virgin Media – Web Safe TalkTalk – HomeSafe New customers are automatically included. If an existing customer YOU must choose to opt in

What to look for

eSafety - resources https://slp5.somerset.org.uk/webs/fairlandsmiddleschool/Parents/SitePages/Safeguarding.aspx https://www.commonsensemedia.org/ https://www.net-aware.org.uk/ http://www.parentscentre.gov.uk/ www.thinkuknow.com http://www.internetmatters.org/ https://www.saferinternet.org.uk/blog https://swgfl.org.uk/products-services/online-safety/resources/

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