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Parents Workshop
On-Line Safety and
Awareness
Objectives
• To share information on student use and
related concerns
• Share school strategies
• Develop awareness on use and misuse of ICT
tools
• Practical suggestions
Agenda
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Introduction
Brief outline of general issues – 20-25 min
Short practical workshops – 5 x 10 min
General summary of ideas and actions – 10
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Setting the scene
• Incredibly important area of development
– Personal communication tool
– Use within education
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Internet – access the whole of mankind's knowledge!!!
On-line streaming
Video conferencing
Education software
Projectors and hardware in classes
Issues
• Incredible change
– Head of Secondary – 8th year
– Number of cellphones in last 3-4 years
• With increased use the incidents of misuse
have increased and diversified
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Photos
Videos
Blogs
Anonymous messages and emails
Practical jokes
Plagiarism
General Issues with On-line Safety
and Awareness
• Sensible ICT use - Cybersafety
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Privacy
Predators
Pornography
Plagiarism
• Cyberbullying
Cyberbullying
• ‘A cyberbully – defined as anyone who
repeatedly misuses technology to harass,
intimidate, bully or terrorise another person.
Such behaviour usually takes the form of
inappropriate and hurtful rumours or threats
sent through e-mails, instant messages, texts
messages, or website posts, with the sender
often anonymous or disguised as someone
else’ - Mark Franek, 2006, Ed Leadership
Why is cyberbullying such an issue?
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Very wide ranging
Not face-to-face
Often unexpected
Anonymous
No come back on results
Difficult to trace
New gadgets
Often outside school
State legislation?
What can we do and have we done?
• Raise awareness in whole community
• Develop strategies for students to behave
safely on-line
• Develop more thoughtful and careful world
citizens
• Raise level of competence and knowledge of
the ‘Immigrant’ population
Awareness through Student Survey
• April 2007
Statistical Feedback
Basic background information on you:
• 97% have a computer in house
• 53% on-line in bedroom
• 80% have a cellphone
ICT Issues or Concerns
• 29% responded that they had been made to feel
uncomfortable on line
– 38% girls – 21% boys
• 22% reported that they had posted unpleasant
things
• 50% approached by a stranger
– 57% girls – 43% boys
General Conclusions
• Statistics show girls more aware, exposed or
willing to express concerns
• Younger students, particularly 7/8 see
cyberbullying as a worrying issue
– Especially photologs and comments
– Bullying on-line
Sample of Year 7/8 Comments
What concerns me . . .?
• ‘That now everybody posts things in photologs,
hurting people, bullying has become a common thing
thanks to all the new technology’
• ‘Something that happens to me very often: some
people bully me because they are bored, they say bad
words and insult me, they find it fun to do, it hurts
me with the unpleasant things they wrote. I think that
the people who are cyber bullied may feel very bad’
Older Students
• Generally see cyberbullying as of less of
an issue
• Also many students voice opinions that
school should not be involved
What concerns me . . .?
• ‘We cannot do anything about it and it is
difficult to catch the bully’
• ‘The school should worry about other things
rather than the ones that should be learned at
home’
• ‘I think this is un-useful (sic), it is not going to
solve anything’
• ‘It does not really exist’
Older Students also said . . .
• Significant number express concerns
– Privacy and personal information
– Hurt it can cause
What concerns me . . ?
• ‘That a joke is exposed to thousands of people’
• ‘People outside school that know and have
information of students - Hackers eg someone had the
information of [my friends], including addresses,
phone numbers, DNI, etc.’
• ‘Accessing information about someone is easy, and
risky, so personal data should be kept private’
• ‘Any kind of stalking or harassment is quite
worrying’
School Strategies
• Increase school use
– IT and Departments
• Control of phones
• School Policy - Código Convivencia and Plagiarism
• PSE Programme – awareness, citizenship and ‘what
to if . . .’ steps
• Increase knowledge and competence of Immigrants
• Raise awareness of possible misuse, cyberbullying
and steps to control
Types of Cyberbullying
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Warning Wars/text wars
Stealing passwords
Blogs
Websites
Photos
Internet polling
Malicious codes
Porn/junk mail
Impersonation
Types of Cyberbullying
• Proxy - Getting someone else to do your dirty
work
– Notifying war – complaining to an ISP of
harassment when nothing has happened. Victim
may retaliate and be removed.
– Impersonation – posing as someone else they post
comments possible casting themselves as the
victim. Friends then may gang up against the
presumed ‘aggressor’.
Important Step
• Understand
– Various ICT Tools
• Their use and misuse
– by your child
– against your child
– Controls that can be used
– Simple tips
Practical Workshops
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Blogs and Social Networking
Instant Messenger and Chat
Email and virus control
YouTube
Cellphones
Only 10 minutes per workshop and the move
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Social Networks
Social Networks
•Myspace, Facebook, Photolog
•Fun for kids to talk about with friends
•Show off pictures
•“Like working on a yearbook”
Social Network Risks
• Strangers
• Privacy issues, such as photo distribution
• Risks to reputation
Social Network Tips
•Choose the photos with care
•To make them aware of the consequences of
posting photos—they can be copied and used by
anyone
•Suggest that they are familiar with their “friends”
Instant Messaging
and Chat
IM Risks
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Strangers can contact your kids
It’s hard to monitor
Kids spend too much time on it
Online profiles that are searchable
Trouble with peers/school
Cyber-bullying
IM Parent Tips
• Check your son/daughter’s screen name,
profile information, picture (discuss good
choices)
• Talk with your child about IM habits
• Limit time
• Set rules and monitor carefully
Chat Risks
• Risk of child revealing information that can
personally identify him/her
• Chat rooms and “one-on-one” conversation
flow easily – to offline private space
• Unmonitored chat can have language and
sexual content
• Predators
• Anonymity
Chat Tips
• Discuss risks of chat rooms with your children
• Encourage children to only chat with friends they
know
• Encourage children to only chat in moderated
environment
• Teach children to not give away any personal
information
• Teach child to be very careful about meeting online
friends offline
• Set rules and monitor carefully
Electronic Mail
Electronic Mail
•Transmission of text messages and optional file
attachments.
• Users can send mail to a single recipient or
broadcast it to multiple users.
• Messages can include pictures, sound, video, or
text attachments.
• Software or Web-based.
E-mail Risks
• Spam (Junk e-mail or bulk e-mail)
• Not private: Can be easily be distributed to
whole world.
• Computer viruses
• Spyware
• Bullying
• School or Social trouble
E-mail Tips
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Have different accounts for different levels of privacy.
Teach children to do the following:
• Protect Passwords
• Guard personal information
• Never open e-mails or attachments from an unknown person.
• Never open attachments with an .exe or .com extension.
• Delete chain letters.
• Remember that e-mail can be shared widely.
• Think before sending an e-mail.
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Ways to secure a PC:
• Update the antivirus frequently.
• Keep the spyware updated.
• Do not tell your password to others.
• Verify frequently the state of the firewall.
• Update your Windows periodically through Windows Update.
• Use Antispam programs.
• Pay attention to pop-up blockers and to the famous “cookies”.
Videos Online
Sitios de Descarga de Videos
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YouTube.com, Google
UnitedStreaming, Discovery Channel
Learner.org
VxV, del Grupo Clarín
Mixplay.tv
Otros…
Características de Uso
• Fácil Acceso
• Fácil subida y bajada de videos
• Accesible a cualquiera con una conexión sin
firewall.
• En algunos casos, tienen filtros automáticos
para material registrado o inapropiado.
• Acepta formatos de cualquier tipo o fuente
(celular, cámara de fotos, videocámara, etc.).
Usos
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Educativos
Recreacionales
Seinfeld (sobre nada)
Comunicacionales
– Aspectos Positivos
• Mayores posibilidades de expresión
• Disponibilidad inmediata y global.
– Aspectos Negativos
• Videos Ofensivos
• Excesiva Violencia
Precauciones a considerar
• Existencia de sitios similares para contenido
pornográfico libre.
• La facilidad de subida exige un ejercicio más
firme de criterio en la elección del material.
• Ser cuidadosos en no caer en una
sobrexposición, o uso fuera de contexto.
• Recurrir a controles online para dar de baja
contenido que sea ofensivo (►)
Cell Phones
Cellphone uses
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Talk
Photos
Film
Music
E-mail
Internet
Record Audio
Personal Agenda
Cellphone Risks
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Theft of huge amount of personal information
Positive unless missused
Not focusing on what one should be doing
Become target for carrying expensive devise
Cellphone tips
• Address book
• What level of communication technology does
your child need now?
• Think of it as carrying expensive jewelry
• Stored photos
Golden Rules for Parents
1. Keep Internet in public space as much as possible.
2. Spend “cybertime” with your child.
3. Teach Internet rules & consequences – adults to
model values online.
4. Limit time – young people should be busy beyond
screens.
5. Talk to your child about what they are doing.
6. Stay involved.
Possible Items for Home
On-line Agreement
1. ‘Real’ life rules apply: courtesy, kindness, modesty,
dignity, respect for the law and for others.
2. Don’t talk to strangers.
3. Keep your private information private.
4. Never agree to meet an online friend without your
parents knowledge.
5. There are no guarantees that what you say or post
on the Internet is private.
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Information, including photos, videos, etc, posted on
the Internet can last forever.
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Tell an adult if you encounter something
uncomfortable.
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Don’t reply to unknown screen names on IM.
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Never open e-mail from strangers or click on any
attachments.
10. Find the ‘good’ online – good friends, good Web
sites, good games – and enjoy.
In Conclusion
• It is about your child, not technology
• Tech tools and tips can help, but they’re not
failsafe
• Our job is to equip kids with knowledge, build
independence and create responsible citizens
• Let’s not lose sight of the wonderful
opportunity and future that awaits!!!
Acknowledgements
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WiredKids. Inc
www.cyberbullying.org
Parents Guide to the Internet US Dept of Ed.
‘Foiling Cyberbullies in the New Wild West’ –
Mark Franek, ASCD Magazine