Scottish Council of Independent Schools (SCIS) Annual Conference – Internet Safety and Responsible Use: What do Schools Need to Know?

 

This afternoon I will be speaking at the Scottish Council of Independent Schools Annual Conference on Internet Safety and Responsible Use. The audience will consist mainly of headteachers, governors and school bursars. This is a good example of partnership working between the public and private sector. The presentation also gives me an opportunity of work towards my target of training 1000 adults in Internet Safety and Responsible use by October 2008.

 

 

Below are what I consider to be the key slides from my presentation:

 

 

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These are the websites that I mentioned:

CEOP - Child Exploitation Online Protection Agency:

The Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre is a UK police agency with a difference. It has the teeth of any other police force and works to track offenders wherever they may be. CEOP also delivers free education programmes into schools to help children of all ages stay safe online and is active in sharing best practice techniques with the wider child protection community through a number of training initiatives.

Think You Know:

Find the latest information on the sites you like to visit, mobiles and new technology. Find out what's good, what's not and what you can do about it.

If you look after young people there's an area for you too - with resources you can use in the classroom, at home or just to get with it.

Most importantly, there's also a place which anyone can use to report if they feel uncomfortable or worried about someone they are chatting to online.

All the information here is brought to you by the team at the Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Centre. We hope you like it.

Grid Club:

Educational resources, games, quizzes and activities. Includes notes on curriculum relevance.

Cyber Café:

Discover the safest ways to use the Internet, chat rooms, e-mail and send text messages. Aimed at 8 - 10 year olds.

If anyone has any questions about the evening please feel free to get in touch or leave a comment below.

Childnet International

Childnet International’s mission is to work in partnership with others around the world to help make the Internet a great and safe place for children.

For a good introduction to Childnet’s work you can download Childnet’s IMPACT report here.

Spokeo

Find something out about your friends on-line.

I also referred to these articles: 

• Guardian Article: 'Unprofessional' young tennis players have funding suspended
• Scotsman Article: Oil Worked sent 15 year old girl S & M Messages
• OTG Daily Article: Over half of employers say that Internet activity affects recruitment decisions

 

On-line Handouts

1. Purely for Parents Guidance Sheet
2. Think You Know who your talking to leaflet
3. Internet Safety Leaflet for Parents
4. Blog Safety Leaflet Parents
5. Young People, Music and the Internet

Comments

[Jim McDougall]

Hi Ollie, hope it went well; I am delighted to see that you were invited to give this presentation; as you say it is encouraging to see fruitful partnership between the two sectors.