Can We Keep Children Stay Safe Online? Scott Hensley Information Literacy Specialist Bob Miller Middle School 2011 Scott Hensley Information Literacy Specialist.

Can We Keep Children Stay Safe Online?

Scott HensleyInformation Literacy SpecialistBob Miller Middle School2011

What’s going to be yourstrategy?

2009

Cyberbullying

• Brad’s Blog…

• Mary, an obese high school student….

• A group of girls at his school had been teasing Allen…

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High Risk Behaviors Online

• Disclosing Personal Information

• Internet Addiction

• Suicide and Self-harm Communities

• Hate Group Recruitment and Gangs

• Risky Sexual Behavior

• Violent Gaming

Online Danger

• Cyberbullying:Sending or posting harmful material or engaging in

other forms of social aggression using the Internet or other digital technologies.

• Cyberthreats:Sending or posting direct threats of distressing

material that raises concerns that the person may be considering committing an act of violence against others of self.

Methods

• FlamingHeated, short-lived argument that occurs between two

or more protagonists

• HarassmentRepeated, ongoing sending of offensive messages to an

individual target

• DenigrationSpeech about a target that is harmful, untrue, or cruel

Methods

• ImpersonationImpersonation occurs when the cyberbully gains the ability to

impersonate the target and post material that reflects badly on the target or interferes with the target's friendships

• Outing and Trickerypublicly posting, sending, or forwarding personal

communications or images, especially communications or images that contain intimate personal information or are potentially embarrassing.

Methods

• ExclusionExclusion is related to the designation of who is a

member of the in-group and who is an outcast

• CyberstalkingRepeated sending of harmful messages that include

threats of harm, are highly intimidating or extremely offensive , or involve extortion

• Direct ThreatsStatements of intent to hurt someone or commit

suicide. Direct threats generally contain information about an actual planned event

• Distressing MaterialOnline material that provides clues that the person

is emotionally upset and may be considering hurting someone, self-harm, or suicide.

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Cyberthreats• ….I just kill you! God I can’t wait till I can kill you people. I’ll just go down to

some downtown area in the bad ass city and blow up and shoot everything I can. Feel no remorse. No shame.

• ....all I want to do is to kill and injure as many of you pricks as I can, especially a few people. Like brooks brown.

•April 20, 1999, at Columbine High School in Columbine, an unincorporated area of Jefferson County, Colorado, United States, near Denver and Littleton. Two senior students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, embarked on a massacre, killing 12 students and one teacher. •They also injured 21 other students directly, and three people were injured while attempting to escape. The pair then committed suicide.

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Cyberthreats• Bring a gun to school, ur on the front of every newspaper• Didn’t choose this life, but I damn well chose to exit it• I can’t imagine going through life without killing a few people• Nothing wrong with killion• All god’s creatures do it in one form or another• If you don’t like it u die• If you don’t like what I stand for, you die• If I don’t like the way you look at me, u die• I choose who lives and who dies

Andrew Osantowski

•This material was posted by Andrew Osantoski, a high school student in Michigan when engaged in a private chat with Celia, a college student in Idaho. Fortunately, Celia recognized the danger, saved the transcript, and reported it to her father, who was, a college security officer. Her father reported the chat session to the police in Andrew’s community. Upon investigation, is was found that Andrew was participating in a hate group and had many weapons, including an AK-47. He has since been convicted and is now in prison.

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2009

Cyberthreats• I’m a retarded (expletive) for ever believing that things would change. I’m

starting to regret sticking around, I should’ve taken the razor blade express last time around. Well, whatever, man. Maybe they’ve got another shuttle comin’ around sometime soon.

• If you think you’re better than those who take their own lives; you’re not. If you think you’re stronger than those who have taken their own lives; your not.

• It takes courage to face death. Knowing you’re going to die and actually following through takes heart, I don’t care who you are.

Jeff Weise•On March 21, 2005, Weise killed a total of nine people. He first killed his grandfather, 58-year-old Daryl Allen Lussier, Sr., and Lussier's girlfriend, 31-year-old Michelle Leigh Sigana. •Later he shot and killed seven people at Red Lake Senior High School, including one teacher and a security guard. •Five other students were injured in the shooting. After briefly exchanging fire with police officers following the murders, Weise committed suicide via shotgun.

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Cyber Technologies and Activities

•Online social networking: • Profiles• Personal web pages• Email• IM (instant messaging)• Blogs• Chat rooms• Discussion boards• Gaming

•Hangouts:• myspace.com• xanga.com• facebook.com• livejournal.com• bebo.com• secondlife.com• clubpenguin.com• webkinz.com

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High Risk Behaviors Online

• Disclosing Personal Information

• Internet Addiction

• Suicide and Self-harm Communities

• Hate Group Recruitment and Gangs

• Risky Sexual Behavior

• Violent Gaming

2009

Does TV Damage Teen Brains?• Reported February 9, 2009• Watching a lot of TV during adolescence, an alarming new study has

found, can change a normal brain to a depressive one.

• Every extra hour a teen spends watching TV or playing videogames on an average day, he or she is 8 percent more likely to develop depression as an adult.

• TV teaches kids to be passive, and to judge themselves against fictional characters whose looks and accomplishments seem out of reach.

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Impact• Online communications can be extremely vicious

• There is no escape for those who are being – cyberbulliedvictimization is ongoing, 24/7

• Cyberbullying material can be distributed worldwide and is often irretrievable

• Cyberbullies can be anonymous and can solicit the involvement of unknown “friends”

• Teens may be reluctant to tell adults what is happening online or through their cell phones because they are emotionally traumatized, think

it is their fault, fear greater retribution, or fear online activities or cell phone use will be restricted.

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What Are They Thinking?• “You can’t see me, I can’t see you”

• “Life online is just a game”

• “Look at me—I’m a star”

• “It’s not me. It’s my online persona”

• “What happens online stays online”

• “On the Internet, I have the free-speech right to write or post anything I want, regardless of the harm it might cause to another”

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Is A Threat Real?

• Analyze the circumstances under which threats are made

• A high school student sent an anonymous IM to a friend threatening to harm her and her friends the following day at school.

• A high school student created an animated counter on his profile on a social networking site. Beneath the counter, which counts down days, hours and minutes, were the words, “until I kill Mr. (name of his math teacher).”

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What Your Students Must Know

1. Report any online threat or distressing material

2. It is extremely dangerous to post material online that another person, especially an adult, might perceive as a serious threat.

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Impact of Cyberbullying

• Recent Surveys…

• 58% of kids admit someone has said mean or hurtful things to them online

• 53% of kids admit having said something mean or hurtful things to another online

• • 42% of kids have been bullied while online

• 34% were threatened

• Only 4% of parents surveyed thought their child had been bullied online.

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Who Are Cyberbullies

• The cyberbully…• social climber, good kid, access to

technology, belong in the “in-crowd”

• The target….• wannabe, insecure, may be perceived as

different or weak, perceived as loser by the “in-crowd”

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Laws and Legal Considerations• CCSD Regulation 5144 sets forth the rules that govern the search of a student's person

or possessions while at school.

• Students enjoy no privacy right in their desks and lockers and are advised of this in advance. Therefore, student desks and lockers can be searched at any time for any reason.

• Students do have a privacy right as to their person and personal possessions. However, while in school, this right is not absolute. The law allows school administration to invade a student's privacy and conduct a search based upon an "individualized, reasonable suspicion that the student is hiding evidence of wrongdoing (even though not necessarily criminal)" and the search is "necessary to maintain school discipline, order or safety, and to prevent the removal or destruction of evidence." The precise procedures for the search are set forth in Regulation 5144.

• Legal has determined that this rule would apply to allow an administrator to "search" a student's cell phone, MP3 player, or similar electronic device for evidence of wrongdoing (i.e., photos, images, videos, sound bytes, test messages, call logs, etc.) if the prerequisite "individualized, reasonable suspicion" exists. Furthermore, it is this office's position that if evidence of wrongdoing is found, the device may be confiscated until the wrongdoing is addressed, either by police or through the school's disciplinary process.

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School Responsibility - Criminal• Making threats of violence to people or their property.• Engaging in coercion (trying to force someone to do

something he or she doesn’t want to do).• Making obscene or harassing telephone calls (this includes

text messaging).• Harassment or stalking.• Hate or bias crimes.• Creating or sending sexually explicit images of teens (this is

child pornography).• Sexual exploitation.• Taking a photo of someone in place where privacy is

expected (like a locker room)

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Prevention and Education

• Comprehensive Planning Through Safe Schools Committee

• Needs Assessment—Bringing “Sunlight” to the Problem

• Policy and Practice Review• Professional Development• Parent and Community Outreach• Student Education• Evaluation and Assessment

2009

Laws and Legal Considerations• CCSD Regulation 5144 sets forth the rules that govern the search of a student's person

or possessions while at school.

• Students enjoy no privacy right in their desks and lockers and are advised of this in advance. Therefore, student desks and lockers can be searched at any time for any reason.

• Students do have a privacy right as to their person and personal possessions. However, while in school, this right is not absolute. The law allows school administration to invade a student's privacy and conduct a search based upon an "individualized, reasonable suspicion that the student is hiding evidence of wrongdoing (even though not necessarily criminal)" and the search is "necessary to maintain school discipline, order or safety, and to prevent the removal or destruction of evidence." The precise procedures for the search are set forth in Regulation 5144.

• Legal has determined that this rule would apply to allow an administrator to "search" a student's cell phone, MP3 player, or similar electronic device for evidence of wrongdoing (i.e., photos, images, videos, sound bytes, test messages, call logs, etc.) if the prerequisite "individualized, reasonable suspicion" exists. Furthermore, it is this office's position that if evidence of wrongdoing is found, the device may be confiscated until the wrongdoing is addressed, either by police or through the school's disciplinary process.

2009

Prevention and Education

• Comprehensive Planning Through Safe Schools Committee

• Needs Assessment—Bringing “Sunlight” to the Problem

• Policy and Practice Review• Professional Development• Parent and Community Outreach• Student Education• Evaluation and Assessment

What’s going to be yourstrategy?

Cyberbullying Prevention Programs

Bullying Prevention Programs

iSafe.org Surveys

I-Safe Sign Up

I-Safe Sign Up

I-Safe Sign Up

I-Safe Sign Up

I-Safe Sign Up

Let’s Look At I-Safe

5 minutes

Internet Resources

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Let’s Look At Some Websites

5 minutes

What’s going to be yourstrategy?

Bringing Sunlight to the Problem

Using Google Forms

• Google Forms video

Creating Surveys in Google Docs

Creating Surveys in Google Docs

Creating Surveys in Google Docs

Creating Surveys in Google Docs

Creating Surveys in Google Docs

Creating Surveys in Google Docs

• Add the link to:– The library webpage– The school webpage– Myccsd webpage– Edmoto webpage

• Create a staff internet safety survey• Create your own parent internet safety survey

Additional Resources

Questions?

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Media Cited• Bullies. DVD. ABC New productions, 2007. • Cyber-Bullying. DVD. ABC New productions, 2007.• Goodstein, Anastasia. Totally Wired. New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2007. • Growing Up Online. Dir. Rachel Dretzin. DVD. PBS Home Video, 2008. • Kowalski, Robin. Cyberbullying. Malden : MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2008. • Willard, Nancy. Cyberbullying and Cyberthreats. Champaign : Il: Research

Press, 2007.