Katz - Making Your Primary School E-Safe

Making Your Primary School E-safe

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Making Your

Primary School E-safe

Whole School Cyberbullying and E-safety Strategies for Meeting Ofsted Requirements

ADRIENNE KATZ

Jessica Kingsley Publishers
London and Philadelphia

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First published in 2015

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Katz, Adrienne, 1946

Making your primary school e-safe : whole school cyberbullying and e-safety strategies for meeting Ofsted requirements / Adrienne Katz.

pages cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-84905-542-0 (alk. paper)

1. Cyberbullying--Great Britain--Prevention. 2. Bullying in schools--Great Britain--Prevention. 3. Education--Standards--Great Britain. 4. Great Britain. Office for Standards in Education. I. Title.

LB3013.34.G7K37 2015

371.58--dc23

2015016758

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eISBN 978 0 85700 966 1

Contents

What Do We Mean by E-safety
for Primary Children?

What is e-safety?

Put at its simplest, e-safety is the schools ability to:

protect and educate pupils and staff in their use of technology

have the appropriate mechanisms to intervene and support pupils and staff when necessary.

The breadth of issues classified within e-safety is considerable, but can be categorised into three areas of risk:

content : being exposed to illegal, inappropriate or harmful material

contact : being subjected to harmful online interaction with other users

conduct : personal online behaviour that increases the likelihood of, or causes, harm.

These words, content, contact and conduct, outline how e-safety is viewed in convenient categories. But there is so much more to it.

Lives lived online and future lives imagined

Young children in our schools are going to live their lives online: their jobs are likely to require good digital skills, and their personal and social lives most certainly will. Being digitally skilled and safe online is a must for them. They can expect to bank online, book holidays, talk to friends, do their shopping, play games and download movies and music if they are not already doing several of these. They will search for information for their schoolwork and simply to find out interesting facts. They will book tickets for a concert, find out how to get there and follow news of their favourite band. They will follow exciting scientific breakthroughs like the Rosetta spacecraft online and view their favourite TV programmes online too.

Technology enables those who have a disability to be equal to anyone when online, connects people in remote areas with millions of others who have the same hobby or interest, and changes how we monitor our health and even how we are diagnosed.

The digital revolution demands that we do more than police childrens behaviour it is a gateway to the most enabling technology that is also disrupting the way we do things, and we need to give them the skills and confidence to navigate it.

Risks and downsides

Nevertheless, despite all the exciting opportunities, there are risks and downsides. What we post online may stay there for years to come, only to turn up in some future search. Images uploaded innocently can be harvested and misused by merchants of pornography. Fundamentally, our privacy and the way we think about our privacy have changed too, and the question of how to retain some privacy and safety while everything is put out there lies at the heart of e-safety work with children and young people. Much of their behaviour is driven by emotion; many say I forget about the rules when I go online and will return again and again to the site where they are hurt. Lonely, isolated people search for friendship and intimacy online, ignoring the safety advice they have received, while others, in the age-old way of youth, feel invincible.

Cyberbullying is thought to be even more hurtful and cruel than face-to-face bullying. It makes it possible to follow a target 24 hours a day, reach them in the privacy of their bedroom, and hurt or humiliate them in front of an audience of people they know. Photos can be misused to embarrass at best, or humiliate and blackmail at worst. Trolls and haters spread racism, misogyny and prejudice.