Welcome to the
Safer Internet
Parent’s Workshop
th
18
March 2014
93% of all 5-15 year olds used the
internet in 2013.
This is four in five 5-7 year olds
(82%), nearly all 8-11 year olds (96%)
and 12-15 year olds (99%).
Source: Ofcom (2013) Children and parents: media use and attitudes
report. London: Ofcom.
The estimated weekly volume of internet
use at home in 2013:
6.5 hours for 3-4 year olds
6.7 hours for 5-7 year olds
9.2 hours for 8-11 year olds
17.0 hours for 12-15 year olds
Source: Ofcom (2013) Children and parents: media use and attitudes report
London: Ofcom.
Children are now accessing technology from an
early age.
The new
iPotty and
iStroller are
now available.
What are
your
thoughts?
Children are now accessing technology from an
early age.
Apptivity gyms.
Do your children know
what to do if they see
something on the
Internet that makes
them uncomfortable?
13% of UK 9-16 year olds said they had been bothered
or upset by something online in the past year
35% of children aged 5-15 years old
who use the internet at home have
an active social networking site
profile.
1% of 5-7 year olds
18% of 8-11 year olds
67% of 12-15 year olds
22% of 8-12 year olds who use the
internet at home say they have a
profile on Facebook, Bebo or
MySpace (despite the minimum age
at which you can have a profile on
these sites being 13)
Source: Ofcom (2013) Children and parents:
media use and attitudes report. London:
Ofcom
In our school the most popular social
networking sites are:
Facebook
xBox Live
Instagram
Snapchat
Twitter
WhatsApp
Skype
Kik
Binweevils
Bebo
Is your child signed up to any of these sites?
Do you know what they involve and the age limit they recommend?
These are rules set out by Facebook:
Registration and Account Security
Facebook users provide their real names and information, and
we need your help to keep it that way. Here are some
commitments you make to us relating to registering and
maintaining the security of your account:
• You will not use Facebook if you are under 13.
Snapchat is directed towards teens
and adults. Minors ages 13-17 should
have permission from a parent or legal
guardian before using Snapchat.
Children under the age of 13 are only
permitted to access a special version
of Snapchat, called “SnapKidz,” which
they are automatically directed to
upon sign up.
Instagram does not knowingly collect or
solicit any information from anyone
under the age of 13 or knowingly allow
such persons to register for the Service.
The Service and its content are not
directed at children under the age of
13. In the event that we learn that we
have collected personal information
from a child under age 13 without
parental consent, we will delete that
information as quickly as possible.
Children are able to access the
Internet anywhere, anytime which is
a huge problem.
Computers and laptops should be
placed in communal areas of the
house so that content can be
monitored.
However, mobile devices also have access to the internet which
makes it a lot harder to keep a track of what your children are
doing and if there are problems it is harder to get away from.
Games consoles and televisions have access to the internet
which may make it difficult to realise that children are playing
or talking to others.
12-15 year olds have an average of 272
social networking friends
Children aged 12-15 years old estimate
that they have not met one in three of
their social networking friends (29%)
Most children aged 8-12 years old and
12-15 years old with an active social
networking profile say that their profile
can be seen only by their friends (79%
for 8-12 year olds), while 6% of 8-12s
say their profiles can be seen by anyone.
29% of UK children aged 9-16 years old said they had contact online
with someone they have not met face to face
4% of UK 9-16 year olds have gone to an offline meeting with someone
they first met online.
Source: Haddon, L.; Livingstone, S.; and EU Kids Online Network (2012) EU Kids
Online: national perspectives
London: The London School of Economics and Political Science
There are many issues
associated with this.
•Cost of apps (if the child is
on a contract)
•Age appropriate content
•Viruses
Text messaging and chat abbreviations have had a
detrimental effect on the punctuation and
grammar of children in schools.
This language is used in IM (chat), text
messaging, emails and status updates and children
are beginning to transfer this language into their
writing as it is hard to separate the two.
The idea of these is to write ideas down as
quickly and in a shortened form whereas in school
we ask children to extend their sentences and
add in detail.
These
are the
SMART
rules we
use in
school.
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