Education : eSafety Kids new measures & tools : parents & teachers !

 

Teen & social media

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Parents are now able to have images of their children removed from  Google search results, said to company.

Google wants to make it easier for kids and teenagers to remove photos of themselves from its search platform.

It came as Google announced a range of changes to child-safety measures across several of its products.

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It will also remove "overly commercial content" from the children's version of YouTube and change what kind of adverts can be targeted at under-18s.

Several major technology companies have introduced such measures under scrutiny from governments and safety advocates.

Kids on Instagram

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"We want to strike the right balance of giving young people all the things they love about Instagram while also keeping them safe."

Instagram blog

Instagram has made new under-16s' accounts private by default, so only approved followers can see post and 'Like" or comment as it battles opposition to plans to introduce a children's version of the app.

"Protecting young people on Instagram is so important to us. Some updates on this work: restricting DMs between teens and adults they don't follow, encouraging teens to make their accounts private, and prompting them to be careful in DMs."

Adam Mosseri, head of Instagram

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And in a separate post to the YouTube blog, the company YouTube announced additional protections for people under 18 on YouTube and YouTube Kids.

"Younger people use YouTube every day to discover new interests, learn about the world, and connect with the world through online video. But it's essential that as they do, they have the options and safeguards to create the experience that's right for them."

YouTube

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Digital footprint:

YouTube will also turn off "autoplay" as the default setting, for children, in both the Kids and mainstream apps, to prevent unsuitable videos playing automatically.

Allowing users to remove image-search results of children would afford "more control over their digital footprint"

"Of course, removing an image from search doesn't remove it from the web but we believe this change will help give young people more control of their images online," 

Google

Teens on social media

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The other changes include:

• stopping ad targeting based on children's age, gender or interests
• preventing "age sensitive" types of adverts being shown to younger users
• changing the default mode for uploaded videos, for children, to "the most private option"
• turning adult-filtering mode Safe Search on for minors
• preventing young people from using Location History, the feature that tracks and logs a phone's location constantly
• new parental advice on the Google Play app store

credits: Google Blog

https://blog.google/technology/families/

credits: Google Blog

https://blog.google/technology/families/

Family link:

Google will also be rolling out features from Family Link to users under 18, as well. Family Link is a Google service which allows parents of children under 13, who cannot yet have their own Google accounts, to monitor their usage.

Child Focus:

One of the key missions of Child Focus is prevention. This clip was made as an e-safety awareness campaign for children between 4 and 8 years some years ago. 

It's being aired on Belgian kids channels and distributed in other European countries. Note: Script & animation by CC.

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Education: 

Protecting young people is very important to them. Parents must educate their kids to restrict messages between teens and adults they don't follow, encouraging teens to make their accounts private, and prompting them to be careful in social media.

Educating to privacy, child safety, wellbeing and digital education must be reinforced by parents and teachers.

We must help kids and teens to be informed. We need to give them the skills to keep themselves safe online.  

Knowing how to sniff out trouble, knowing how to avoid it, and knowing how to handle it when it comes knocking are key essential life skills.

Very important! There’s always someone to help young people : teachers, parents, older brothers, grandfathers.

As parents, pay attention to the new  tools to educate your children and help them  to keep privacy, and safe on the social media and other websites. 

G-Souto

10.08.2021

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#SID2016 at school : Let's play our part for a better internet

https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/

Safer Internet Day #SID is organised by Insafe in February of each year to promote safer and more responsible use of online technology and mobile phones, especially among children and young people across the world.

Safer Internet Day 2016 will be celebrated on Tuesday 9 February 2016. The theme for the day is:

"Play your part for a better internet."

For Your Eyes Only from PDST Technology in Education on Vimeo.

Safer Internet Day is an EU wide initiative to promote a safer internet for all users, especially young people. One of three internet users are children and they spend more and more time on social media, playing online games or using mobile apps. 

Infographic

credits: Better Internet for Kids

https://www.betterinternetforkids.eu/

The call to action for Safer Internet Day 2016 is; “Play your part for a better internet” and the hashtags are #SID2016 and #Up2Us.

Explore the infographic above and the website for ideas, information and inspiration on how to get involved.

SID2016

credits: Digital Agenda EU

https://twitter.com/DigitalAgendaEU/

Over the years, Safer Internet Day (SID) has become a landmark event in the online safety calendar. 

Starting as an initiative of the EU SafeBorders project in 2004 and taken up by the Insafe network as one of its earliest actions in 2005, Safer Internet Day has grown beyond its traditional geographic zone and is now celebrated in more than 100 countries worldwide, and across all continents. 

Visit the Better Internet for Kids website. Click on your country flag to find out what's happening near you.

From cyberbullying to social networking, each year Safer Internet Day aims to raise awareness of emerging online issues and chooses a topic reflecting current concerns. 

For SID 2016, the focus of the day is "Play your part for a better internet", reflecting the fact that we all have a role to play.

Education:

Being safe online at any age not only requires awareness and knowledge but also quite a mastery of skills:

• Digital literacy skills, 

• Social skills, 

• Communication skills

• Emotional skills. 

Arguably, it's important to have a little bit of everything in order to have a safe online experience. It's so important to be socially and emotionally skilled in order to become an empowered, resilient and empathic user of modern technology. 

SID 2016 has put together some activities teachers can use in their school to celebrate Safer Internet Day all over February.

All the activities are described below and you can download a Powerpoint presentation with scripts, videos, and worksheets. You can use to help get things started.

SID2016

http://www.webwise.ie/

Activities: 

• Create an Internet Safety Poster

• Agree an online code

• Positive messages campaign

• The Granny Rule: which photos are okay to share?

• Super Selfie (up-to16)

You can choose other activities to  involve your students on the SID website

Jessica's wish - a poem for Safer Internet Day 2016 from UK Safer Internet Centre on Vimeo.

Digital resources for teachers :

• Videos for different ages:

Safer Internet Day 2016: Play Your Part for a Better Internet from UK Safer Internet Centre on Vimeo.

Films:

Trust (2010) : Trust : a movie for safety on Internet 2012

Disconnect (2014) : Education: Disconnect and Safer Internet 2014 

Brochures, Helplines, Handbooks:

• Youth Manifesto For a Better Internet : read the brochure here

• Insafe Helplines : Making a Difference to the Lives of Children and Young People Online

• The Web We Want is an educational handbook developed by European Schoolnet for 13-16 year olds aimed at helping to reflect on online experiences and responsibilities. 

The handbook has been developed with and by young people, and has reflective exercises about the Internet for students to think and write about.

Students can test their online skills, learn more about their rights in the online world and create tips and tools that they can share with other young people. The handbook has some nice details about what other teens think about certain online activities and what they want out of the internet, which can aid reflection.

The Web We Want

teens

http://www.avatargeneration.com/

The Web We Want for Teens : Download here

Languages: 

• Czech
• Dutch
• English
• French
• German
• Greek
• Hungarian
• Polish
• Portuguese (PT)
• Portuguese (BR)
• Romanian
• Spanish

The Web We Want

educators

http://www.webwewant.eu/

The We We Want For Educators: HandBook download here

Languages:

• Czech
• English
• German
• Portuguese (PT)
• Romanian

Social media:

Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/SaferInternetDay

Twitter: @SaferInternetEU or @safeinternetday #SID2016 #UP2US

Instagram : sid2016

https://twitter.com/DigitalAgendaEU

Some thoughts: 

Children born today are growing up in a world powered by data. They will be surrounded by powerful digital technologies, while the world’s information is digitised, analysed and transmitted around them in seconds. The internet is their companion, sometimes more than their family, school and friends.

Teachers and educators must help children and teens to be well informed. We need to give them the skills to keep themselves safe online.  

Knowing how to sniff out trouble, knowing how to avoid it, and knowing how to handle it when it comes knocking are key essential life skills.

Please pass the message! There’s always someone to them : teachers, parents, older brothers, grandfathers.

Whether we are children and young people, teachers, parents, educators or social care workers, we all have a part to play for a better internet, a better and safer place to be, especially for kids and teens.

There is always a place which anyone can use to report if they feel uncomfortable or worried about someone they are chatting to online.

Parents: 

As parents, search for latest information on websites your kids like to visit, mobiles and new technology. Find out what’s good, what’s not and what they can do about it. 

There are always areas on websites about safety if you look after young people, with resources that teachers and parents can use at home,  at school or just to get with it. 

Teachers:

Every teacher will work #SID2015 in differents ways thinking on their students (age and level).

Teachers will find a wealth of multilingual resources empowering young people, and their families to make the best possible use of online technology.

"SID is a space where leaders in the internet safety community can communicate with the public and exchange ideas, knowledge and experience with each other."

I play my part for a better Internet by supporting Safer Internet Day !

G-Souto

08.02.2016

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