30 April 2018
By Rebecca Avery
Online Safety Briefing: Term 5 2017-18
This is the 5th edition (April-May) 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 Kent County Council. This briefing should not be shared or forwarded directly to children, young people or parents/carers 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
- UK Safer Internet Centre – Online Challenges: Advice for parents
Articles and Research
General
- TES: From Fortnite to the classroom: the ‘floss’ dance craze sweeping schools
- Huffington Post: People In The UK Now Spend A Day Online Every Single Week
- Daily Mail: Why good people turn bad online: Experts reveal how the internet boosts the 'personal rewards of expressing outrage'
- BBC: We put today's school pupils through an old tech challenge
- SWGfL: Exploring Online Reputation
- UK Safer Internet Centre: Schools, Fake Accounts and RIPAs - advice from the POSH Helpline
- DCMS: New laws to make social media safer
Cybercrime
- BBC:
Gaming and Gambling
Information Governance, Privacy and Data
- DfE: Data protection: toolkit for schools
- TES: GDPR: A guide for teachers
- The Guardian: Thousands of Android apps potentially violate child protection law
- Mashable: Facebook takes steps to comply with EU's privacy laws
- SWGfL: GDPR Guidance for Schools and Colleges
- Huffington Post: Facebook Suspends 200 Apps Following Data Misuse Investigation
- BBC:
Peer on Peer Abuse
- The Guardian: Online anonymity has turned a global village into a lynch mob
- BBC: Bait out: Kent school children the victim of online group
Professional Conduct
- BBC:
- Huffington Post: Six In Ten Britons Post Something Online That They Later Regret
- TES: Boarding school house master banned after sharing hotel bed with pupil
Self Esteem and Mental Health
- The Telegraph:
- Huffington Post: Please Stop Blaming The Internet For Young People's Loneliness
- APO Research: Turning to online peer forums for suicide and self-harm support: “It does help having you guys”
Sexual Abuse and Grooming
- Internet Watch Foundation:The IWF annual report 2017
- The Guardian:
- BBC: 'I was groomed by a man on Twitter'
- National Crimes Agency: National Crime Agency publishes 2018 analysis of serious and organised crime threats
Social Media and Technology
- Engadget: Facebook launches 'Youth Portal' with privacy tips for teens
- Mashable: Studious teens find out that doing their homework on YouTube can make them go viral
- BBC:
- The design tricks that get you hooked on your phone
- I tried to make Alexa my best friend
- Can you really revise while chatting online?
- YouTube publishes deleted videos report
- WhatsApp to raise minimum age limit to 16 in EU
- Amazon Alexa to reward kids who say: 'Please'
- The YouTube stars being paid to sell cheating
- I wish mum's phone was never invented
- Huffington Post:
- Daily Mail: The psychology behind the 'Finsta': Researchers say secret Instagram accounts used to post 'inappropriate' pictures may boost social bonding
- The Guardian:
- Childnet:
- Reuters: Facebook says posts with graphic violence rose in early 2018
Trust, Radicalisation and Extremism
Educational Content
Teaching Materials, Tools and Videos
- Childnet:
- BBC Tomorrow's World: Is social media killing creativity? (KS4) - YouTube
- CBBC Newsround (KS2/3):
- CBBC Own it (KS2/3):
Articles for Parent/Carers
- Internet Matters: Sharing tips for parents
- Mother Pukka (Blogger): Private: No access
- BBC:
- The Guardian:
Resources for parents/carers
NSPCC and O2 have updated the Net Aware resources with new apps and games.
- Childnet:
- Think U Know: Gaming: What parents and carers need to know
- Parent Zone: Fortnite: everything you need to know about the online game
- NSPCC/O2:
- Internet Matters: Wellbeing apps guide for kids