E-safety Parental Guide “You wouldn't let your child wander around the streets of London alone, yet millions of children are surfing the internet on their own and talking to strangers.”
E-safety Parental Guide
Feb 25, 2016
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E-safety Parental Guide
“You wouldn't let your child wander around the streets of London alone, yet millions of children are surfing the internet on their own and talking to strangers.”
The workshopWe are going to cover:
The technologies children, young people and their
families are using
Some of the challenges and issues they bring
Some practical ideas and tools that will help you stay
in control
How do we use modern technologies?
Are you one of the 28% of parents who use the internet and describe themselves as
beginners?
7% of children describe themselves as beginners!!!
Accessed anywhere,
anytime
Easy and fast access to wide
range of information A key skill for
life
Great tool for individual work
Why do we use ICT in the College?
Enhance teaching and
learning
Motivational and fun
How are we protecting our students in West Somerset College?
E-safety Policy
E-safety Officer
Child Protection Policy
AUPs for each student
School filtering
Articles in the Comet
E – safety training included in ICT lessons and mentoring sessionsE-safety updates on the website
Is it enough though to keep them safe
outside the College?
Question to parents:
What concerns you
about your child’s
use of technology?
So…what should you do now?1. Get involved in your children’s online activity and TALK. Check you know what applications they are using, especially chat rooms and games played with others online. Ask who their ‘e-pals’ are. Get them to teach you about how things work.
2. Support our College. Sign the Acceptable Use Policy and take an active interest in what your children are doing in ICT at school.
3. Encourage Internet use that builds on offline activities. It helps to keep the computer in a family room not tucked away in a child’s bedroom. Help your children to use the Internet for homework and leisure interests.
4. Use some of the tools on the computer to help you.
Tools:
Passwords
Google SafeSearch
YouTube Safety mode
Parental control on your Internet Service
Facebook privacy controls
Password do’s and don’ts Do change passwords for important
accounts regularly (banking, iTunes, Amazon, etc.)
Do make sure you know where did you write them down and who knows them.
Do choose strong passwords (a good combination of uppercase and lowercase characters, numbers and symbols)
Do create different passwords for different accounts and applications.
ₓ DON'T make obvious choices like your
last name, first name, nickname, birthdate, spouse name, pet name.
ₓ DON'T use an alphabet sequence (lmnopqrst), a number sequence (12345678) or a keyboard sequence (qwertyuop).
ₓ DON'T use a password shorter than six (6) characters
Google SafeSearchGoogle SafeSearch helps you to filter sexually explicit content from your search results. To turn it on: 1. Go to google.co.uk website.2. Press “Search settings” in the right hand corner. 3. And tick “Filter explicit results”. 4. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click “save” to save results.
YouTube safety modeSafety mode hides videos that may contain inappropriate content flagged by users and other signals. No filter is 100% accurate, but it should help you avoid most inappropriate content. To turn it on:1. Go to youtube.com and scroll to the bottom of the page.2. Press “Safety”, tick “On” and press “Save” to save results.
Parental control on your Internet ServiceThe 4 big internet providers in the UK – BT, Sky, TalkTalk and Virgin Media - provide their customers with free parental controls which can be activated at any time. They have come together to produce these helpful video guides to help you to download and set-up the controls offered by your provider. These can be accessed from:http://www.saferinternet.org.uk/advice-and-resources/parents-and-carers/parental-controls
You can set different age limits for your children so you can make sure they only see content appropriate to their age
They enable you to set limits on how long your child stays online and when they go online
You can allow or block specific programs, like Instant Messenger, or hardware like webcams
Facebook Privacy SettingsBasic information:
Certain information is visible to everyone on Facebook and can’t be
customised.
Other basic settings can be changed.
Go to ‘Account/Privacy Settings’.
Click on ‘View Settings’ in the ‘Basic Directory Information’.
Decide who can see particular information. (“Everyone”, “Friends of
friends”, “Only friends”)
Facebook Privacy SettingsBlock lists:
This lets your child block certain people from interacting with them, or
seeing their information.
Click on ‘Edit your lists’ and you can enter in the name and email address
of people your child wants to block.
Facebook Privacy SettingsSharing on Facebook:
Click on ‘customise settings’ in the ‘Sharing on Facebook’ section
Choose who your child is happy seeing and commenting on things they
share, post or are tagged in – your child can choose ‘Everyone’, ‘Friends
of Friends’ or ‘Friends’
Next steps and useful links:
Take 10 minutes to look at and set the parental controls on all the devices in
your home.
Go through the Facebook privacy controls with your child and any other
social networks.
Set SafeSearch.
Try to have that first talk – it is important that your children know that you
are supporting them.
Follow us on Twitter, Facebook or check our website (under “Information”
“Esafety”) regularly for useful links and e-safety advice.
Cd. next steps and useful links :
Links (all of them are also available on our website):
http://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/ - general tips on e-safety for both parents
and students
http://www.childnet.com/ - general tips on e-safety for both parents and
students
http://www.mumsnet.com/ - from parents and for parents
http://www.ceop.police.uk/safety-centre/ - advice, help and report centre
http://www.saferinternet.org.uk/advice-and-resources/parents-and-
carers/parental-controls - guides on how to set up parental controls
offered by BT, Talk Talk, Virgin Media and Sky.
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