e-safety issues for schools and local authorities ruth hammond
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E-safety issues for schools and local authorities
Ruth Hammond
Key messages for today
• Young people and ICT
• Relevant policies and legislation
• Issues and risks
• Role of the school/organisation
• Support available
• What do you need to do?
For young people ICT is not a novelty but the way they engage with their world - 21st century culture
• Communication via email, chat rooms and message boards, IM, SMS, weblogs, social networks, Skype, podcasting……..
• Entertainment – watching films on DVD, downloading music, playing games, taking, storage and retrieval of digital images.
• Education – research, word processing, data manipulation, modelling, design, creativity, recording thoughts
• Personal management – diary, appointment calendars and address books, alarm clock and personal reminders, finding the best party locations!
• For shopping• ………………..all at the same time!
Why should I be concerned about e-safety?
• Every Child Matters: Change for children– Be healthy– Stay safe– Enjoy and achieve– Make a positive contribution– Achieve economic well-being
• Safeguarding Children in Education – Sept 2004 • Working Together to Safeguard Children (11.58-11.62)• Practitioners need to know that ICT is safe if they are to
take advantage of its benefits• Schools have a duty of care - both inside and outside• DfES – ‘Harnessing Technology’ – the e-strategy
What are the risks?
• Content -sexual, racist, violent unreliable/bigoted ie safety of children’s minds• Commerce - scams, phishing and pharming, bluejacking, downloads which
steal information– children’s and parents!• Contact - via interactive technologies – IM, chat, multiplayer games• Culture – bullying, camera phones, blogging, moblogging, social networking …..
• The ‘C’ of ICT is the most dangerous ie Communication which can lead to Contact
• Approx 40 - 50 cases in the last 4 -5 years compared to 500 serious road casualties per year!
• The biggest Internet danger is that we concentrate on the dangers and forget the benefits!
• Balance and perspective
http://www.children-go-online.net/
‘..the risks do not merit a moral panic, and nor do they warrant seriously restricting children’s internet use because this would deny them the many benefits of the internet. Indeed, there are real costs to lacking internet access or sufficient skills to use it.’
‘However, the risks are nonetheless widespread, they are experienced by many children as worrying or problematic, and they do warrant serious intervention by government, educators, industry and parents.’
Schools should be raising awareness of:
• Internet safety – keeping personal information secret across all technologies – email, chat,
IM, mobile– bullying across all technologies including camera phones & blogs– people online may not be who they say they are
• Internet security– spotting copycats websites and scams– viruses and spam via email– if it looks to good to be true it generally is
• Media literacy– evaluating reliability/validity of information– copyright and plagiarism– P2P networks - allow anyone to publish videos and large files to anyone
who needs them eg Napster and Gnutella, music and porn!
Issues for schools to consider
• Who is responsible for teaching e-safety?– In primary phase?– In secondary phase?– Whole school issue of child safety not ICT!– Technological issues
• At what age should internet safety lessons start?• How can parents be involved?• What support is there in schools for teachers in the event of a
‘disclosure’?• Advent of 3G and ‘mobile internet’• Protection for staff – AUP• Damage to network through downloading of files/viruses• Data security• Identifiable/contactable/pupil email addresses/images on web sites• Accessing inappropriate web content at school• External issues being brought into school – eg cyberbullying
Key measures
Policy and procedure - what help is available?Policy and procedure - what help is available?
•E-safety publication:
Main recommendations:•E-safety co-ordinator•Policy and management team•Checklists of AUPs•Incident log
•Safetynet discussion forum
Becta’s Schools website http://www.becta.org.uk/schools/esafety
Infrastructure - what help is available?Infrastructure - what help is available?
• ISP Safety site http://ispsafety.ngfl.gov.uk
• Becta Accreditation of Internet Services to Education:
enables schools to purchase services from accredited suppliers that meet and maintain specific standards in content filtering and service performance.
• Delivering the National Digital Infrastructure– Robust and reliable networks– Secure and safe access to data and content via the National
Education Network– Best value purchasing– Technical support and services– Finding choosing and using resources– Personalised learning spaces
Educational resources - what help is available?Educational resources - what help is available? www.becta.org.ukwww.becta.org.uk/publications/publications Primary:
• The Internet Proficiency scheme for KS2
• Smartsurfers for KS2
• Others….
Secondary:
• Signposts to Safety for KS3/4
• Childnet International -
‘Know IT All’ for KS3
• Think U Know
• Others….
Parents:
• Parentscentre
• KnowITAll for Parents
What should schools/organisations be doing?
•Be alert to the possibilities!
•Provide:
- Policies and procedures- Infrastructure - Education for staff, parents, students- Standards and inspection
(School Evaluation Framework4b. To what extent do learners feel safe and adopt safe practices?5c. How well are learners guided and supported?)
E-safety: the experience in English Educational Establishments
Autumn term 2005, random anonymous sample
444 schools and colleges (303 primary, 123 secondary, Special schools, PRU’s, colleges)
In depth interviews with 61 teachers25 Local Education Authorities5 Regional Broadband Consortia
Key findingsLEAs are often the first port of call for e-safety advice – particularly in primary educationHaving a designated e-safety co-ordinated and AUP makes a differenceMost common breech of e-safety is the viewing of unsuitable contentTeaching about e-safety makes a difference
http://www.becta.org.uk/research/reports/esafetyaudit
Ruth Hammond
British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (Becta)Millburn Hill RoadScience ParkCoventryCV4 7JJ
• Tel: 02476 416994• Fax: 02476 411418• www.becta.org.uk • [email protected]
Stay Safe:
• From maltreatment, neglect, violence and sexual exploitation• From accidental injury and death• From bullying and discrimination• From crime and anti-social behaviour in and out of school• Have security, stability and are cared for
These aims were written with the ‘real’ world in mind, however many equally apply to the ‘virtual’ world of 21st century
DfES – ‘Harnessing Technology’ – the e-strategy
‘One of our key aims is to personalise learning for children and adults, and their interaction with professionals.’
• home-school links • Anytime anywhere learning• Authentication• Lifelong!• Learner centric• addressing children and learning services as a whole, rather
than sector-by-sector• Safeguarding children across all services in line with
Every Child Matters agenda
Concerns are shifting from what children are ‘downloading’ in
terms of content to what they are ‘uploading’ to the net.
..no-one is safe!
What help is available for the Primary phase?What help is available for the Primary phase?
Education and training
• The Internet Proficiency scheme for KS2 (UK)
• Netsmartz (US)• Disney (US)• Faux Paw (US)• Internet Superheroes (US)• Smart Surfers (UK)• CBBC – Stay Safe (UK)• Hector Protector (NZ)
What help is available for the Secondary phase?What help is available for the Secondary phase?
Education and training
• Signposts to Safety for KS3/4• Know It All • Chalk Face resource • Websafe Crackerz • Thinkuknow.co.uk • Netsmartz (US)
http://www.smartsurfers.co.uk/
Parentscentrehttp://www.parentscentre.gov.uk/usingcomputersandtheinternet/
http://www.ikeepsafe.org
www.netsmartz.org
Cybercafe Interactive web siteCybercafe Interactive web site
Web site - standalone and a teaching resource.
•Hosted on Gridclub
• http://www.gridclub.com/cybercafe/teachers
Gridclub Cybercafe Gridclub Cybercafe teachers pageteachers page
•http://www.gridclub.com/cybercafe/teachers
•Presentation for parents and governors•Screensaver •Teacher’s pack
Hector Protector http://www.microsoft.com/nz/athome/security/children/hector.mspx
Hector floats on the screen and covers it if
children see something which makes them
feel uncomfortable
