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Risks and Benefits

Risks and Benefits. Perceived and Actual. What are the risks?. Poor or inappropriate content or inappropriate material Contact with unsuitable people Information overload Potential for on-line bullying Legal, financial and commercial considerations Differences between home and school

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Risks and Benefits

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  1. Risks and Benefits Perceived and Actual

  2. What are the risks? • Poor or inappropriate content or inappropriate material • Contact with unsuitable people • Information overload • Potential for on-line bullying • Legal, financial and commercial considerations • Differences between home and school • Addiction

  3. Stranger danger? Who am I talking to?

  4. A balanced approach…

  5. When things go wrong… Why webcam sex is bad!

  6. How do adults see the risks?

  7. Perceived by parents and others to be the most serious risk for children when using the internet....

  8. Information Literacy • “I’m working on a history paper about how the holocaust never happened.”

  9. Information Literacy • Website is a valid source from a tenured professor at a top university. • Isn’t it?

  10. Information Literacy

  11. What are children doing on the Web? Blogging Sharing music Social networking Gaming Messaging Commenting on others’ sites Personalising their own pages

  12. Games • Connected worldwide with thousands of other players at once. • Detailed virtual worlds with sophisticated, potentially addictive gameplay.

  13. Children’s views Risks affecting the computer : viruses (the main sources of infection being unidentified emails and downloads); hacking (of password and personal details). Inopportune appearance of images or the mistaken access to undesired websites (violence, pornography) : this is admittedly perceived as disturbing, but children (notably the older ones) tend to minimize or play down their impact.

  14. Cons and fraud (illegal securement of bank details – although this primarily concerns their parents – dishonest proposals, false competitions, etc.). Anything that puts the child him/herself in difficulties or in danger : physical assaults and sex attacks by malicious adults with whom they might be in contact. Although most children are aware of this type of risk, it is generally not what they tend to mention first.

  15. link:www...... • Shows all sites that link to the main site

  16. Put URL into google. • Check results

  17. The nature of interactions in chat rooms Who do children chat to?

  18. Bebo....

  19. Habbo Hotel

  20. BT Security Report – Online Child Safety • 63.4 million visitors to adult websites in December 2005 • Largest group of views of internet pornography is children aged between 12 and 17 • BT Cleanfeed – 35,000 attempts to access illegal content each day… • 1 ISP…what are the real figures?

  21. Eurobarometer (2005-6) 18% European parents/carers believe their child (<18) has encountered harmful or illegal content on the internet ______________________________________________________________________ Ofcom (Media Literacy Audit of Children, 2006, UK) 16% 8-15 yr olds have come across something ‘nasty, worrying or frightening’ 31% 12-15s make checks on new websites 67% 12-15 yrs trust most of what they find online ______________________________________________________________________ UK Children Go Online (9-19 yr olds, 2004) 57% internet users have seen porn online, via pop-ups (38%), junk mail (25%), email from contact (9%); 10% had visited porn sites on purpose Over half ‘not bothered’ by porn, one fifth ‘disgusted’ ______________________________________________________________________ Findings – content risks

  22. Problems… • Low teacher confidence • If HT or ICT coordinator does not take a lead in this area then it doesn’t happen • Lack of clarity as to the best approach and best resources • No method for checking that it is being delivered • Technology is changing too quickly, people feel overwhelmed • Very patchy coverage

  23. Benefits • Fantastic way to communicate and collaborate with work etc. • Great way to meet people with similar interests • Etc. etc. etc.

  24. Discover Connect Create The Wonderful World Wide Web Anyone can

  25. Discover

  26. Connect • Email • Instant messenger • VOIP (Skype) • Social networking

  27. Create • web sites • music • photos • text • video...

  28. Embed e-safety throughout the curriculum • This is everyone’s responsibility • Drugs problem • Knife in school • Stranger danger • Cyberbullying

  29. E-safety in the SEF • Section 4B • The extent to which learners adopt safe and responsible practices in using new technologies including the Internet.

  30. If we’re going to use it… • Empower children with the tools, knowledge and skills they need to use the Internet and other communication technologies safely

  31. Who needs to know? • Parents, carers, teachers and all those who work with children on a regular basis ought to be catered for with appropriate programs of education designed to raise awareness of issues such as cybersexploitation and grooming, and to introduce practical strategies they can use, and make them aware of further sources of help and support.

  32. More than learning about internet safety • Take the subject • Make it their own • Extend beyond the classroom • Spread message peer-to-peer

  33. What can we do?

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