6. Content
• Inappropriate - How would you respond? (Hate
sites, Pro ana, Pro mia sites)
http://thinintentionsforever.blogspot.co.uk/p/p
ro-ana-tips.html
• Inaccurate - How do you know?
• Plagiarism/Copyright
• User generated content that puts friends at risk
- “Produsers” See Axel Bruns
http://eprints.qut.edu.au/4863/1/4863_1.pdf
Martin Luther King, by Trikosko,
Marion S. [Public domain], via
Wikimedia Commons
7. Commercialism
• E-commerce
• Privacy
• Junk/spam email
• Premium rate services By Maxi Gago (Own work) CC-BY-SA-3.0
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b
y-sa/3.0)
By MediaPhoto.Org (mediaphoto.org Own work) [CC-BY-
3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)
8. “Children and young people need to be empowered to keep
themselves safe – this isn’t just about a top-down approach. Children
will be children – pushing boundaries and taking risks. At a public
swimming pool we have gates, put up signs, have lifeguards and
shallow ends, but we also teach children how to swim” (Byron, 2008,
p.2).
Byron Review – Children and New Technology
Because of the changing nature of risks we need to ‘listen[ing] to
children to learn what new risks they are experiencing’ Livingstone et
al., 2011, p.29
How can we empower children
to keep themselves safe online?
10. Pupils who are about to
leave the school are keen
to keep in touch with
their teacher. They ask to
exchange email addresses
and contact details.
http://goo.gl/PqDwv9
11. Staff members celebrate a night
out and photos are uploaded
online. The album is shared with
friends only, but some staff
members tagged in the photos
are good friends with several
parents, who now have access to
the pictures.
http://goo.gl/5muuJH
12. You search your pupils’
names online and realise
that many have open
profiles or open photo
albums on social
networking sites. Many
have lied about their age.
http://goo.gl/HeJmh5
13. You come across a
discussion thread on a well
known parents’ forum and
find that parents are
openly discussing the
school and have mentioned
staff members by name.
http://goo.gl/kqxBbp
14. A member of staff comes
across a group of pupils
who are looking at sexually
explicit images on a device
that has been brought into
school.
http://goo.gl/heQJqf
15. A pupil has circulated an
indecent image of another
pupil around the school, of
which staff are not aware. The
parents of the child in the
photo come to school the next
day demanding that action is
taken.
http://goo.gl/jLgQVT
16. Whose responsibility is it to tackle issues of e-safety?
(Parents? Teacher? Whole school?)
How do we, as teachers, address the issues through
our practice?
Responding to incidents
Pre-emptive approaches
School policy
Implications for teacher practice
17. Professional Conduct
• Are there confidentiality
issues – e.g. pupil
information?
• What online social
networks and services do
you use?
• What issues are raised by
your professional and
personal use of these
technologies?
18. E-Safety Resources
A comprehensive and
regularly updated web
page of links and
resources compiled by
Jeremy Burton and a
working group of
teachers from Brighton
and Hove schools can be
found at:
http://www.theslate.org/
learn/e-safety/
19. Follow up
Read: Turvey et al (2014) ‘e-Safety’ in Primary
Computing and ICT; Knowledge,
Understanding and Practice, London: Sage.