Online Safety Briefing: Term 6 2017-18

This is the 6th edition (June-July) of the Kent Education Safeguarding Team’s Online Safety briefings 2017-18. The aim of these posts is to help Designated Safeguarding Leads (DSLs) in educational settings keep up to date with of some of the emerging online safety issues and research which may be of interest.

The following links are not endorsed, controlled or promoted by The Education People. This briefing should not be shared or forwarded directly to children, young people or parents due to the sensitive and potentially distressing nature of some content.

Before sharing content that names specific apps or websites, we recommend DSLs access the following links:

• Online Safety Alert: Think before you scare
• Engaging parents in children’s use of apps

Articles and Research

• SWGfL: Safeguarding Young People Online - A Question of Ethics?
• SecEd: Booking a PSHE speaker? Read this first.
• The Telegraph:
  • Stalking, bullying and grooming: the dangers lurking all over the web
  • Schools need help to protect their pupils from online dangers
  • One in four children under two has their own tablet, MPs' report shows
• The Conversation: Social media in court: your tweets could be used as evidence against you

‘Addiction’ and Mental Health 

• The Guardian: How much screen time is too much for kids? It's complicated
• The Conversation: Debunking the 6 biggest myths about ‘technology addiction’
• Parenting for a Digital Future: Media and mental health: time to get serious?
• BBC:
  • Is too much screen time affecting our brains?
  • Social media apps are 'deliberately' addictive to users
  • Gaming addiction 'a mental health condition'
• The Telegraph:
  • Revealed: first child to be diagnosed with Internet addiction by the NHS
  • Weapons of mass distraction: The seven ways social media keeps you hooked – and how to beat them
  • Duty of Care: Mothers' excessive use of mobile phones is driving behavioural problems among children, study finds
  • Children are exposed to video game violence because parents do not take age ratings seriously, survey finds

Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation

• The Telegraph: Grooming cases soar under new law, as police reveal 3,000 crimes against children as young as five in just a year
• National Crimes Agency: Record numbers of UK men fall victim to sextortion gangs
• TES:
  • Schools should teach dangers of livestreaming'
  • Schools to teach about consent and grooming in RSE

Cyberbullying

• The Conversation: Cyberbullies are also victims – they need help too
• Telegraph: Teenage girls are twice as likely to report cyber bullying than boys, major Government study finds
• BBC: Parent apologises to teacher for Facebook abuse

Cybercrime

• National Crimes Agency: Teenager arrested over schools hoax bomb threats

Gaming and Gambling

• BBC:
  • Call of Duty Kansas 'swatting' death: Two more charged
  • Fortnite: Schools 'could learn lessons from gaming'
• The Guardian:
  
  • 'Easy trap to fall into': why video-game loot boxes need regulation
  • Are video games really addictive?
• Huffington Post:
  • Steam Game Store Says It Will 'Allow Everything', No Matter How Controversial
• The Conversation: Fortnite gamers are motivated, not addicted
• New Scientist: Why the moral panic over Fortnite is nothing to worry about
• Parent Zone: Skin gambling: teenage Britain’s secret habit

Gangs

• BBC: YouTube deletes half of 'violent' music videos

Information Governance, Privacy and Data

• Huffington Post: GDPR Fears That 'Myths' Around New Data Protection Rules May 'Endanger The Lives Of Children'
• BBC:
  • 'I downloaded all my Facebook data and it was a nightmare'
  • What tech giants really do with your data

Professional Conduct

• BBC:
  • Teacher banned for online pupil photos
  • Oldham phone porn head teacher banned for life
• TES:
  • Teacher banned for putting stolen robot on eBay
  • Social media 'catastrophic' for teachers

Sexual Harassment and Violence

• The Guardian:
• From lewd comments to upskirting: female teachers speak out about sexual harassment
• Upskirting to become a criminal offence punishable by two years in jail
• BBC:
• Pupils upskirting teachers increasing, NASUWT Cymru warns
• New guidelines for 'revenge porn' crimes

Social Media and Technology

• The Guardian:
  • The Guardian view on mobile phones
  • WhatsApp to limit message forwarding after India mob lynchings
• BBC:
  • Facebook losing out to YouTube, Instagram and Snapchat among US teens
  • Children exposed to horror film ads on YouTube
  • Ofsted chief inspector backs ban on phones in schools
  • Kids baffled by YouTube and Instagram terms
  • Amazon Alexa: is it friends with your kids?
• TES:
  • 'We must teach pupils it's OK to make mistakes'
  • To emoji or not to emoji?
• TechCrunch: 2018 Internet Trends worldwide report
• Parents Zone: HARD TALK... with Yubo's Marc-Antoine Durand

Special Educational Needs and Disabilities

• LSE: “I use my phone like any other teenager would” – disabled children and young people’s uses of digital technologies for learning

Radicalisation and Extremism

• The Guardian: Woman who posted Holocaust denial songs to YouTube convicted

Trust and Reliability

• Net Family News: Media literacy lessons from comedian ChescaLeigh
• BBC: Fake news harms children's self-esteem and trust, say MPs
• National Literacy Trust: Fake news and critical literacy: final report

Educational Content

Teaching Materials, Tools and Videos

• BBC Academy: School Report: Top tips for filming on a smartphone (KS2/3/4)
• Common Sense Media: How to Have Honest Conversations About Social Media with Students (KS3/4/5)
• BBC Own it:
  • Living your life online? (KS2/3)
  • When your parents are on social... (KS2/3)
  • Don't get caught out by in-game fees (KS2/3)
  • Gaming and gaming addiction collection (KS2/3)
• BBC Newsbeat
  • Bullying now means something different (KS2/3)
  • Different types of bullying explained (KS2/3)
  • Should mobile phones be banned in schools? (KS2/3/4)
• BBC iPlayer: Face the Consequences: Online Pain Challenges (KS4: Warning: Contains content which may be distressing)
• Childnet:
  • “What is the big deal about your personal information?” (KS3/4)

Articles for Parent/Carers

• Internet matters:
  • Moving beyond screen-time limits is essential parenting
  • Live streaming & vlogging parents’ guide
• Childnet: Sharenting: how am I adding to my child’s digital footprint?
• SWGfL: When Screen-Time Limits Don’t Work
• The Conversation: How to keep kids safe from sexual encounters online
• Parent Toolkit: What Parents Have All Wrong about Social Media — And What Teens Have Right
• Huffington Post:
  • A parents' guide to Fortnite, GTA V, Call of Duty, Roblox and Minecraft
  • What is Steam and how does it work?
  • Dad whose 8-year-old spoke to a stranger online for 6 months shares the lesson he learned

Resources for parents/carers

• Childnet:
  • Hot Topic: Screen time and boundaries
  • Online challenges and peer pressure
  • Staying safe online in the summer holidays – advice for parents and carers
• BBC: Digital Detox: Top tips for putting down your phone and engaging with your kids

We hope educational settings have found the briefings to be useful and would welcome feedback from DSLs.