Aims of the Session

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Aims of the Session

• Provide an overview of day-to-day E-safety Issues
  facing schools and LAs, including anti-bullying
• Demonstrate national educational and policy
  resources available to support children, parents
  and teachers

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Opportunities Dangers

• Illegal content
• Other harmful or offensive content (Including
  Self-harm/racist)
• Commercial exploitation
• Gambling, financial scams
• Biased or mis-information
• Online-bullying, stalking, harassment
• Exploitation of personal information (photographs
  etc)
• Invasions/abuse of privacy (password
  abuse/careless use of security settings)
• Paedophiles, grooming, strangers
• Extreme or sexual violence

• Access to global information
• Educational resources
• Entertainment, games and fun
• User-generated content production
• Civic or political participation
• Privacy for expression of identity
• Community involvement/activism
• Technological expertise and literacy
• Career advancement or employment
• Personal/health/sexual advice
• Specialist groups and fan forums
• Networking and new friendships
• Share experiences with distant others

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http//www.childnet-int.org/kia/
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Downloading
Uploading
Consuming
Creating
Personal
Corporate
Converged media
Separate media
Truly interactive
Static
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• Search engines
• Homework
• Projects
• Personal interest
• Amazing facts
• The biggest library in the world

• Blogs (web log)
• Vlogs (video log)
• Web sites
• Text pictures
• Music/photo/video
• Anyone can become a publisher

• Email/chat
• VoIP - Skype
• Instant Messenger
• Multi-user games
• Social networks
• Brings people together

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• Inaccurate and harmful
• Adult content
• Illegal content

• Inappropriate contact
• Cyberbullying
• Sex offenders

• Privacy
• Advertising information
• Invasive software

• 73 of online adverts are not clearly labelled
  making it difficult for children and adults to
  recognise them
• 57 of 9-19 yr olds have come into contact with
  online pornography accidentally.
• 4 in 10 pupils aged 9-19 trust most of the
  information on the internet.
• 1/3 of young people have received unwanted sexual
  or nasty comments online. Only 7 of parents
  think their child has received such comments.

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Supervision


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Knowledge vs. Wisdom
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Day-to-day E-safety Issues and Priorites

• Supporting staff in using technology safety both
  professionally and personally
• Use of social networking sites and the internet
• Professional use of school equipment, networks
  and personal equipment
• Management of data and MIS back up systems
• Managing short term supply teachers use of the
  Internet
• Updated AUP for staff
• Maintaining robust but professionally supportive
  Internet filtering systems
• E-safety Officer regularly updating status of
  popular sites for pupils and staff with clear
  lines of communications to staff on policy of key
  sites
• Updating child protection and anti-bullying
  policy
• Delivery of robust E-safety scheme of work and
  daily reminders
• Hitting all Parents

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Cyber-bullying MSN Report

• More than one in 10 young people admitted they
  have sent a bullying or threatening text message
  to someone else
• More than 10 of UK teenagers said they had been
  bullied online, while 24 knew a victim
• More than a quarter (26 per cent) did not know
  who was bullying them via their mobile phone.

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Childnet http//www.digizen.org/
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How Many Members of Staff Have Been
Cyber-bullied?

• Nearly one-fifth of teachers are being bullied by
  mobile phone, email or over the internet, a new
  survey on cyber-bullying has revealed. (Survey
  The Teacher Support Network and the Association
  of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL).
• The survey revealed that 17 of respondents have
  experienced cyber-bullying. These incidents
  ranged from "upsetting emails" and unwelcome text
  messages, to silent phone calls and the malicious
  use of websites and internet chat rooms.

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What is Cyberbullying?
Threats
Manipulation
Hacking
Exclusion
Prejudice
Public postings
Stalking
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Cyberbullying

• Threats and intimidation Threats sent to people
  by mobile phone, email, or online.
• Harassment or stalkingRepeated, prolonged,
  unwanted contact or monitoring of another person.
• Vilification / defamation / prejudice-based
  bullying These may be general insults or racist,
  homophobic or sexist bullying.
• Ostracising / peer rejection / exclusion Set up
  of a closed group refusing to acknowledge one
  user on purpose.
• Identity theft, unauthorised access and
  impersonationHacking by finding out or
  guessing a username and password.
• Publicly posting, sending or forwarding
  information or imagesDisclosing information on a
  website.
• ManipulationMay involve getting people to act or
  talk in a provocative way.
• Safe to Learn Embedding
  Anti-bullying Work in Schools. DCSF 2007
  
  
  

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Differences

• 24/7 contact
• No escape at home
• Impact Massive potential audience reached
  rapidly. Potentially stay online forever
• Perception of anonymity
• More likely to say things online
• Profile of target/bully Physical intimidation
  changed
• Some cases are unintentional Bystander effect
• Evidence Inherent reporting proof

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National Educational Resources

• CEOP http//www.ceop.gov.uk/ http//www.thinkukno
  w.co.uk/