encyclomedia 2007 internet safety presentation
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Internet safety and using online social networking tools in the classroom. Presentation made at Oklahoma Encyclomedia 2007.TRANSCRIPT
Encyclomedia 2007
Facebook, YouTube, and eBay: Teaching Responsibility and Internet
Safety for the 21st Century
Quyen Arana and Perri Applegate
Internet Safety and Responsibility
• Students must learn to be suspicious
How to Behave in a Responsible Manner in the Online Community
• Students must learn
– Forever is a long, long time
– No one is really anonymous
– They may be subject to libel charges
– They may be subject to prosecution for copyright violations
– They may be subject to school sanctions
– They may be subject to criminal prosecution
How to Behave in a Responsible Manner in the Online Community
• MySpace
• 198 million profiles created (August 2007)
• LiveJournal
• 13.5 million registered users (August 2007)
• 34 million registered users (July 2007)
• Bebo
• 36 million registered users (August 2007)
Social Networking Sites
Creating and Connecting//Research and Guidelines on Online Social and Educational Networking, National School Boards Association, 2007
Almost all 9-17 y/o’s have used social networking sites
Think!
So, What Do We Tell Kids?
Forever Is a Long, Long Time
By Brad StoneNewsweek
Aug. 21-28, 2006 issue
No One Is Really Anonymous
No One Is Really Anonymous
Criminal Prosecution or School Sanctions
• The Recording Industry Association of America has filed changes on 9,100 people as or March 2005
• The online infringement of copyrighted music can be punished by up to 3 years in prison and $250,000 in fines. Repeat offenders can be imprisoned up to 6 years. Individuals also may be held civilly liable, regardless of whether the activity is for profit, for actual damages or lost profits, or for statutory damages up to $150,000 per infringed copyright.
• From RIAA.com
Copyright Violations
• Harassment, Threats, or Humiliation Utilizing Electronic Media
– Cell Phones
– Text messaging
– I.M. (Instant Messaging)
–Web Sites
– Chat Rooms
– Personal Networking Sites
– Blogs
– Bulletin Boards
Cyberbullying
• Continual cyberbullying
• A form of mental assault
• Covered in Oklahoma under Anti-Stalking Laws
Cyberstalking
• A survey of 1,500 4th to 8th graders found
–65% had been bullied online
–35% had been threatened online
–21% have received hurtful or threatening email
–58% say someone has said hurtful things to them online
–60% have not reported these incidents to parents or other adult
• Ninety percent of middle schools students state that they have been a victim of cyberbullying
•1 in 11 youth report harassment —threatening or other offensive behavior directed at them
•1 in 7 youth report unwanted sexual solicitations.
•1 in 3 children report having friends that they have never met in person
Trends from 2000 to 2005
•Kids are practicing safer surfing
•Fewer kids are receiving unwanted sexual solicitations
•More kids are reporting being harassed online
Risk factors for victimization offline include talking about sex with strangers and being rude or nasty oneself.
Dimitri A. Christakis, MD, MPH, ARCH PEDIATR ADOLESC MED/ VOL 161, FEB 2007
“Online victimization appears to be about as prevalent as in-person bullying, suggesting that it is not a new or added harassment but rather uses a different format.”
“The ways children put themselves at risk in the virtual world appears to mirror the ways they do in the real one.”
Power of social networking
“Safety policies remain important, as does teaching students about online safety
and responsible online expression
-- but students may learn these lessons better while
they’re actually using social networking tools.”
Creating and Connecting//Research and Guidelines on Online Social and Educational Networking, National School Boards Association, 2007
Most students use social networking sites
What are they doing?
• Explore social networking sites.
• Consider using social networking for staff communications and professional development.
• Find ways to harness the educational value of social networking.
• Ensure equitable access.
• Pay attention to the nonconformists.
• Reexamine social networking policies.
• Encourage social networking companies to increase educational value.
Recommendations for school board members
• Explore social networking sites.
• Consider using social networking for staff communications and professional development.
• Find ways to harness the educational value of social networking.
• Ensure equitable access.
• Pay attention to the nonconformists.
• Reexamine social networking policies.
• Encourage social networking companies to increase educational value.
Recommendations for school board members educators
Do this
•Get a Yahoo or Hotmail email account for exploring the web
• If you don’t have a MySpace account, go get one.
•Get a few other social network accounts (Facebook, Bebo, Club Penguin).
•Get a Ning account and join the following network: Classroom 2.0 (http://www.classroom20.com)
And do this
• If kids have accounts, have them do research and share.
•Collaborate on an Acceptable Use Policy.
•Talk about identity theft and use of credit cards on the internet.
•Use social networking tools. Create. Share. Participate.
“Safety policies remain important, as does teaching students about online safety
and responsible online expression
-- but students may learn these lessons better while
they’re actually using social networking tools.”
Thank you!
•To contact us:
•Quyen Arana, [email protected]
•blog: http://www.ishuitech.com
•Perri Applegate, [email protected]
Resources
• Wired safety
– http://www.wiredsafety.org/
• I-Safe
– http://www.isafe.org/
• Safe Kids
– http://www.safekids.com/
• NetSmartz
– http://www.netsmartz.org/
Resources for Educators and Parents
• FBI Tips for Parents
– http://www.fbi.gov/publications/pguide/pguidee.htm
• Wired Kids
– http://www.wiredkids.org/wiredkids_org.html
• Family Watchdog
– http://www.familywatchdog.us/Search.asp
Resources for Educators and Parents
• CyberBullying.Us – Many of the best resources can be located here
– http://www.cyberbullying.us/
• Beat Bullying
– http://www.beatbullying.org/docs/about.htmliSafe
• iKeepSafe
– http://www.ikeepsafe.org/iksc_educators/
Resources for Educators and Parents
• Stop Bullying Now – a good elementary site
– http://www.stopbullyingnow.hrsa.gov/index.asp?area=main
• An Educator’s Guide to Cyberbullying
– http://www.cyberbully.org/docs/cbcteducator.pdf
• The Psychology of CyberSpace
– http://www.rider.edu/~suler/psycyber/psycyber.html
Resources for Educators and Parents
• Stand Up
– http://www.unicel.com/standup/pdf/StandUpGuide.pdf
• Parry Aftab
– http://www.aftab.com/
• Cyberbullying.Ca
– http://www.cyberbullying.ca/
Resources for Educators and Parents
• Character, Bullying, and the CyberWorld
– http://www.mindoh.com/docs/MB_Cyberbullying.pdf
• Great Resources for Adult Internet Safety
– http://www.consumer.gov/idtheft/
– http://www.idtheftcenter.org/index.shtml
Resources for Educators and Parents