Limpsfield Grange 11 th February 2014 Steve Clarke, Secondary Computing Teaching & Learning Consultant, Babcock 4S
• An opportunity to discuss your child’s use of technology • Raise awareness of online risks • Offer practical ideas and tools to help you to stay in control Respond to the Promote the negative positive
This session will explore • Changing face of technology • Statistics • Gaming • Cyberbullying • Trolling • Grooming • Tools and resources • Sexting
Never be angry
“Educate not censure”
Children are more likely to go online using a range of devices... • the use of tablet computers at home has tripled among 5-15s since 2012, and a decline in TVs, radios and games players in children’s bedrooms. • Children mostly accessing the internet via a laptop/netbook/PC has decreased to 68% - down from 85% in 2012. • smartphones are the most popular device for accessing social networking sites among 12- 15 year olds. Source: Children and Parents: Media Use and Attitudes Report Oct 2013
Gaming • Games are the most commonly-mentioned online activity carried out at least weekly • More than half of parents of 3-11s have rules restricting the games played to those with an appropriate age rating (56% 62% and 56% respectively), but this is less common among parents of 12-15s (34%). Source: Children and Parents: Media Use and Attitudes Report Oct 2013
Excessive Internet Use • Source: The EU Kids Online Survey
How many do you know? • POS • ASL • LMIRL • PIR • BBM • Notch • GTAIV • MOOC • MMORPG
* Ofcom UK Children ’ s Media Literacy Report, April 2011
KNOWLEDGE WISDOM Understanding how Many children pick to behave in a up technology virtual world quicker!
Are children more confident than competent when using the internet ? Children say they are more e-safety aware, however • There have been decreases in children’s online safety skills. On average, 12-15s have never met, in person, three in ten of the friends listed on their main social networking site profile. • A substantial minority of 12-15s have a social networking profile which may be visible to people not known to them, and this has increased since 2012 (33% vs. 22%). • Compared to 2012, children are less likely to know how to block messages from someone they don’t want to hear from (53% vs. 68 • Source: Children and Parents: Media Use and Attitudes Report Oct 2013
• Discussion of previous slide
Commerce Content Contact Privacy Inaccurate and Inappropriate harmful contact Advertising & information Adult content Cyberbullying Invasive software Illegal content Sex offenders
What’s App -ening?
Girls are more likely than boys to feel under pressure to appear popular or attractive online, and girls aged 12- 15 are more likely than boys to say they have experienced cyberbullying through a mobile phone and online. Ninety-five per cent of parents of 12-15 year old girls have talked to them about staying safe online. • Source: Children and Parents: Media Use and Attitudes Report Oct 2013
CYBERBULLYING
Cyberbullying Cyberbullying is the use of Information Communications Technology, particularly mobile phones and the internet, deliberately to upset someone else. (DfE, 2010)
Cyber-bullying • The biggest concern among parents: – Around one in four (24%) parents of 5-15s who go online at home are concerned about cyberbullying – one in seven (14%) said they were concerned about their child cyberbullying someone else. Source: Children and Parents: Media Use and Attitudes Report Oct 2013
Number of children contacting ChildLine with concerns about online bullying has risen It saw 4,507 cases of cyberbullying in 2012-13, up from 2,410 in 2011-12. The charity also saw a rise in concerns about self-harming For the first time in the charity's history, more counselling took place online (59%) than by telephone (41%).
90% of young victims do not inform adults of online bullying issues Girls are twice as likely to experience cyberbullying Over 40% of all UK secondary or high school children have been bullied online and one in four have suffered repeated incidents
Is it worse than traditional bullying? • can be 24/7, invading home and personal space •can reach very large audiences rapidly •can be anonymous • may be unintentional
Warning signs • Poor school performance •Social exclusion •Isolation •Melancholy •Low self -confidence •Low self -esteem •Depression •Self harming
Incidents can themselves act as evidence www.anti-bullyingalliance.org.uk
Trolling • 1,700 cases involving abusive messages sent online or via text message reached English and Welsh courts in 2012 • This is a 10% increase on the figures for 2011 Source: Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) via http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology- 23502291
Self trolling • Of the students asked 9% said they had cyberbullied themselves • 13% of boys had done it and 8% of girls • Reasons they gave for cyberbullying themselves included a "cry for help" and "so others would worry about me“ • Source: MARC (via BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-25120783)
• Discussion of previous slide
GROOMING
www.thinkuknow.co.uk
• Your online activity leaves a digital footprint • Once content is posted online it is difficult to remove & can be easily searched • It’s easy to share more information than you are comfortable with • Sharing pictures & videos can reveal a lot more about you than intended
• Supervised ? • Monitored • Filtered • Curriculum
TOOLS TO GIVE YOU SOME CONTROL
Get your hands on it first!
Facebook privacy settings Google SafeSearch YouTube Safety Mode Parental controls on your games consoles Parental controls and separate accounts on your computer Parental controls from your Internet Service Provider and mobile devices
http://www.wcgs.org.uk/drupal/sites/defa ult/files/esafety-parentFB.pdf
Click on the ‘options’ cog & choose ‘Search Settings’
SafeSearch can be Change SafeSearch locked filters to strict
• Blocks potentially inappropriate content. • Relies on community flagging • Create a playlist of videos for your child
• All game consoles can have password protected parental controls applied. • Works in line with age-rating system to games (PEGI), DVDs and Blu-rays. http://www.vodafone.com/content/ parents/howto-guides.html
• www.wallaceict.net/project/setting-parental-controls-on-ipad/ • http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4213 • You can enable and adjust Restrictions, or Parental Controls, on your device to prevent access to specific features or content on the device. • Locate these settings by tapping Settings > General > Restrictions . • Possible to restrict certain apps, e.g. Safari, FaceTime & iTunes • Restrict certain content, e.g. rated music, videos, apps & TV shows
Mobile phones
http://www.saferinternet.org.uk/advice-and- resources/parents-and-carers/parental-controls
http://familysafety.live.com - Online site for web filtering – allow or block sites - Works with different devices that use Windows - Set time use for devices - Activity Reporting – sites visited, programs used & computer usage times
• What internet filtering does your ISP provide? • Big four ISPs; Talk Talk (HomeSafe) BT (Family Protection) Sky (McAfee Parental Controls) Virgin Media (Virgin Media Security) Block / allow devices via your router
www.parentport.org.uk • Run by UK’s media regulators • Parents can use this to complain about television, advertisements, products or services they believe are inappropriate for children.
TALK to your child about how they use technology – what do they enjoy? FIND out more about the digital world - understand the tools MAKE the most of tools like Parental Controls on computers, mobiles and games consoles and safety options on Google and other search engines
• Vodafone Digital Parenting: vodafone.com/parents • ParentPort: www.parentport.org.uk • The Parent Zone: www.theparentzone.co.uk • Child Exploitation & Online Protection Centre: www.ceop.police.uk • Childnet International: www.childnet.com • CEOP: www.thinkuknow.co.uk/parents/parentsguide • UK Safer Internet Centre: www.saferinternet.org.uk • BBC Webwise: http://www.bbc.co.uk/webwise
SEXTING
What is sexting? Images or videos generated… – by children under the age of 18, or – of children under the age of 18 that are of a sexual nature or are indecent • Source: ‘Sexting’ in schools: advice and support around self -generated images - What to do and how to handle it, Sharon Girling
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