Internet Safety

1
Internet Safety

• Presentation to Instructional Staff
• GCPS

2007
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Background - Virginia Law

• House Bill 58 passed in 2006 and resulted in
  Chapter 52 An Act to Amend and Reenact 22.1
  70.2 of the Code of Virginia
• (Acceptable Use Policies (AUP) for Public and
  Private Schools)
• Requires that school divisions acceptable use
  policies
• include a component on Internet safety for
  students that is integrated in a division's
  instructional program.

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Two Main Tasks

• Update the divisions existing AUP to include
  school division policy pertaining to Internet
  safety rules, regulations, and consequences
• Develop an Internet safety program of information
  and training integrated into the curriculum

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Our Three Main Components

• Internet Safety Awareness Training
• For students with integrated lesson components in
  the K-12 instructional program
• Implemented by Media Specialists
• Professional Development for Staff
• Offered by ITRT face-to-face
• Includes SafeSchools.org Tutorials
• Outreach for Parents and Community

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Roles

• Media Specialists
• Train-Present to students
• Monitor students Internet Use
• Reinforce safe surfing practices
• Community Outreach

• ITRTs
• Train-Present to instructional staff
• Monitor students Internet Use
• Reinforce safe surfing practices
• Community Outreach

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Roles

• Teachers
• Monitor students Internet Use
• Reinforce safe surfing practices
• Indirect Community Outreach (parent conferences,
  newsletters, etc.)

• Administrators
• Monitor program to ensure functionality/
  participation at all levels
• Initiate, plan, facilitate Community Outreach
• Monitor students Internet use
• Reinforce safe surfing practices

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The Internet

• Is a normal part of our students lives
• Is used for communication, education, research
  and exploration
• Is a powerful tool that should be used wisely
• Can also be susceptible to abuse -- targeting
  young people

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Purpose of Internet Safety

• We need to guide our students to make good
  choices in their Internet travels
• Just as we teach children to be safe in the halls
  of our schools, crossing the street or driving a
  car, we must teach them to use the Internet
  safely
• It should be taught as an integrated whole not a
  one time training lesson
• We should utilize the teachable moment whenever
  a topic can illustrate a component of Internet
  Safety

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Student Curriculum

• What is safe/legal in regards to playing games or
  downloading music/video
• Web pages must be evaluated for content, validity
  and authenticity not all information is valid
  or appropriate
• Cyber bullies predators use the Internet to
  manipulate students students need to get adult
  help
• Online messages and the people who send them are
  not always what or who they seem

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Teachers

• Negative student technological interactions spill
  into the real world
• Cyber bullying Teachers need to know the signs
  and what to do
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• Online and wireless communication can compromise
  students privacy
• People are not who they claim to be, and Internet
  information is not always accurate/appropriate
• Students must be taught what types of personal
  information to share and with whom

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Teachers

• Exchanging information with others can be
  dangerous
• Educators must know/enforce division policies on
  exchanging/downloading files
• Technology staff routinely alerts potential
  e-mail dangers and offers information on how to
  recognize problem signs
• Online journals/blogs reveal too much
  information predators can circumvent safeguards
• Educators must check age-appropriate levels of
  social networking sites that students visit

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Teachers

• Students need to hear the rules often
• Internet safety rules should be posted near all
  computers
• Teachers should review rules frequently
• Students and parents should know consequences of
  disobeying the rules
• Classroom rules must comply with the Divisions
  AUP regarding steps taken when accidently
  accessing inappropriate sites
• Schools and teachers must be consistent in
  enforcing rules and the AUP

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Essential Points for Teachers

• Monitoring is crucial
• Filters cannot catch everything
• Teachers must watch where students go
• No aimless or free surfing teachers MUST
  provide purpose and guides
• Teachers can view History to see what students
  have viewed
• Learn to use SynchronEyes

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Essential Points for Teachers

• Pre-screen all websites
• Always suggest alternative or related sites
• GCPS Resources (i.e. Elementary webpage,
  netTrekker, Division Resources)
• Select search tool and conduct search PRIOR to
  engaging students
• Post AUP rules and consequences

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NOTE

• Potential Employers / College-University
  Admissions Offices now routinely
• Screen MySpace FACEBOOK UTube (social
  networking sites)
• Check for postings as part of their investigative
  procedures, practices

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Acceptable Use Policy

• Filtered access to the Internet is provided for
  all student-accessible computers in Gloucester
  County Public Schools. The filtering software
  provides Internet access only to employees and
  students who have agreed to the GCPS Acceptable
  Use Policy and prohibits access to Internet sites
  based on known inappropriate content or
  determined to be of little or no educational
  value.

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Acceptable Use Policy

• Unauthorized Use references such topics as
• Harassment or threats
• Interference or impairment to the activities of
  others
• Unauthorized access and use of the resources of
  others
• Damage or impairment of GCPS resources
• Unauthorized commercial activities

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• The Internets potential is limitless and still
  largely untapped. Within the next 10 years, it
  will change education in ways we never could have
  imagined. My goal is for the Commonwealth of
  Virginia to remain a national leader in
  educational technology by pioneering cutting-edge
  uses of the Internet while ensuring the safety of
  each student.
• Billy K. Cannaday, Jr.
• Superintendent of Public Instruction

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Main Resources

• Cybersmart.org
• correlates to ISTE Standards
• contains Standards based Lesson Plans with
  Activity Sheets
• Netsmartz.org/education
• from National Center for Missing and Exploited
  Children

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Online Safety Courses

• At SafeSchools.com you have watched
• Online Safety Primer What Every Teacher Needs to
  Know
• Online Safety Cyberbullying
• Two additional Online Safety Courses are being
  developed