eSafety Pledge
eSafety Pledge
e-Safety in Action
There are plenty of ways to keep children safe when on the internet. As well as reflect upon internet safety week there are lots of different measures I can take as the teacher to emphasise the importance of safety when on the internet.
Some of the more obvious compulsory safety precautions I have seen and will adapt to use are:
- Filters
- Blocking more extreme websites
- Looking at the children's history when visiting the website
- emphasising the point of safety with strict behaviour management systems.
One task is to use social networking sites to see how far and quickly messages can spread on the internet. This helps children see the importance of being safe on the internet and also that children may not know who is interacting with them.
Another example of internet safety during the classroom was the mystery child. A Teaching assistant was used to send messages to the class pretending to be a new member of the class, the children responded with questions and helpful messages to the child to make them feel at home in their new school. However the TA then began to ask more personal questions to see if the children responded, some children did. In the end the children were surprised to see the TA was the child and couldn't believe it was them that had lied about liking the same things that the children from within the class did. This really got the message across to help the children understand they must be careful when using social media websites.
- To adhere to national and school policies regarding child protection and online safety.
- To adhere to the national CEOP guidelines see http://www.ceop.police.uk/ and thinkuknow.co.uk
- Not to make images of learners, students, school or University staff without permission from the school in the case of pupils or the individual in the case of adults.
- Not to publish, circulate or use for course or none course related purposes any image or information about a child or professional practitioner encountered as part of the PGCE programme without permission.
- Not to expose pupils to inappropriate materials or details which would allow them access such materials.
- To always anonymise material included in course related tasks and assignments.
- Not to give learners any details of personal telephone numbers, Email accounts or access to social networking accounts.
- Not to engage with learners encountered on the primary PGCE within any form of social networking.
- To report to an appropriate authority any suspicious or suspected activity encountered which might be considered to be bullying, grooming of a young person or a threat to young person.
- To act to discourage and if encountered report any form of cyberbullying.
- To promote ESafety and responsible use of Computing and web based resources so as to enable young people to interact at an appropriate level.
- If a school requires you to support homework by Email set up a separate ‘professional account’ for this purpose.
- If you load sensitive pupil data onto your laptop please ensure that it is encrypted www.truecrypt.org
- My showcase website will be my own work and will accurately reflect my personal capability in Computing.
- On the first page of your showcase site include a disclaimer to say. The author is not responsible for any content which may be encountered on internet sites linked from this site e.g. You Tube.
e-Safety in Action
There are plenty of ways to keep children safe when on the internet. As well as reflect upon internet safety week there are lots of different measures I can take as the teacher to emphasise the importance of safety when on the internet.
Some of the more obvious compulsory safety precautions I have seen and will adapt to use are:
- Filters
- Blocking more extreme websites
- Looking at the children's history when visiting the website
- emphasising the point of safety with strict behaviour management systems.
One task is to use social networking sites to see how far and quickly messages can spread on the internet. This helps children see the importance of being safe on the internet and also that children may not know who is interacting with them.
Another example of internet safety during the classroom was the mystery child. A Teaching assistant was used to send messages to the class pretending to be a new member of the class, the children responded with questions and helpful messages to the child to make them feel at home in their new school. However the TA then began to ask more personal questions to see if the children responded, some children did. In the end the children were surprised to see the TA was the child and couldn't believe it was them that had lied about liking the same things that the children from within the class did. This really got the message across to help the children understand they must be careful when using social media websites.