Patti Fowler, SC Attorney General’s Office
Martha Alewine, SC Department of Education
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Online sales totaled $100 billion in 2005
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Online retail sales in the United States rose to $32.4 billion and accounted for
3.6% of all retail sales in the second quarter of 2009, even as total retail sales fell 0.4%, according to the U.S. Census
Bureau's Quarterly Retail E-Commerce Sales 2nd
Quarter 2009 report .
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1 in 4 households have been victims of
ID theft in the past 5 years
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33% of 13- to- 17-year-olds reported that their parents or guardians know
“very little” or “nothing” about what they do on the Internet.
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• 61% of 13 to 17 year olds have a personal profile on sites such as Myspace,
Friendster, or Xanga
• 14% have actually met face-to-face with a person they had known only through the Internet
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Facebook with 133,623,529 unique visits.
MySpace with 50,615,444 unique visits.
Twitter with 23,573,178 unique visits.
Linkedin with 15,475,890 unique visits.
Classmates with 14,613,381 unique visits.
MyLife with 8,736,352 unique visits.
Ning with 6,120,667 unique visits.
LiveJournal with 3,834,155 unique visits.
Tagged with 3,800,325 unique visits.
Last.fm
with 3,473,978 unique visits.
As of October 25, 2010
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Internet Safety is cumulative.
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There is NO single thing you can do to completely protect yourself on the internet.
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There are multiple components to staying safe.
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South Carolina Internet Safety
Standards
PreK-12
4 Standards
Scaffolding Indicators
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Students recognize their rights and responsibilities in using technologies within the context of today’s world.
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Students use critical thinking and evaluation while in corporating appropriate digital tools and resources in to their education.
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Students recognize the ethical and legal issues while accessing, creating, and using digital tools and resources in order to make informed decisions.
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Students will recognize online risks and dangers in order to take appropriate actions to protect themselves while using digital tools and resources.
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Relationship to other standards and initiatives
Academic
Standards
Standards
For the
21 st Century
Learner
AASL
NETS-S
ISTE
P21
College and
Career-Ready
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What We Have For You
PSAs Safety Minutes
Recommended Resources
•NetSmartz
•iSafe
•WebWiseKids
•CommonSense Media
•SC K-12 ICT Scope and Sequence
Standards
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K-12 ICT Scope and
Sequence
School Library Media Services
Office of eLearning
This scope and sequence is intended as a guide for integrating information communication technologies into the curriculum using the Simple 4
(Plan-Act-Organize-Reflect) information-seeking and problem-solving process model. The skills included here were identified in the national
Standards for the 21 st Century Learner by the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) and by the International Society for
Technology in Education (ISTE) in the National Educational Technology Standards (NETS) for Students. Also included in this Scope and
Sequence are the South Carolina Internet Safety Standards. This scope and sequence scaffolds the identified skills from kindergarten through
12th grade.
Simple 4 – ISTE - AASL STANDARDS
Plan
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Analyze information needs in terms of questions or problems to be explored.
Plan strategies and follow an inquiry-based process in seeking knowledge in Click on IMPACT
Identify and define authentic problems and significant questions for investigation. for the 21 st Century frame the search for new understanding. (1.1.2) (1.1.3)
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Display initiative and engagement by posing questions and investigating the answers beyond the collections of superficial facts. (1.2.1)
Demonstrate adaptability by changing the inquiry focus, questions, resources, or strategies when necessary to achieve success and by persisting in information searching despite challenges (1.2.5) (1.2.6).
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Make informed choices among technology systems, information resources, and services.
Read widely and fluently to make connections with self, the world, and previous reading. (4.1.2)
Seek information for personal learning in a variety of formats and genres. (4.1.4)
Apply digital tools to gather, evaluate, and use information by planning strategies to guide inquiry (3.a)
Plan and manage activities to develop a solution or complete a project. (4.b)
Use multiple processes and diverse perspectives to explore alternative solutions.
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What We Can Do For You
Professional
Development
Sample
Lessons
Agencies & Offices
•Attorney General
•SCDE
• Office of Youth Services
• Office of eLearning
• CyberSafety Task Force
ITV
Programming
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What Can We Do For You?
District
State
District
Schools
• Teachers
• Students
• Parents
Schools
• Teachers
• Students
• Parents
Schools
• Teachers
• Students
• Parents
Schools
• Teachers
• Students
• Parents
Schools
• Teachers
• Students
• Parents
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The ICAC program was developed in response to
• the increasing number of teens on the
Internet,
• the proliferation of child pornography,
• the heightened online activity by predators.
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The first ten Task Forces in the U.S. were formed in 1998 with grants from the
U.S. Department of Justice.
South Carolina’s Task Force was one of the first ten formed, under the umbrella of the Attorney General’s Office.
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• To provide Internet safety awareness presentations and resources.
• To investigate and prosecute Internet crimes against children.
• To provide statewide training to law enforcement and prosecutors in various practical investigative and forensic areas.
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Task Force Commander – Deborah Shupe
Program Manager – Chip Payne
Internet Safety Education Coordinator – Patti
Fowl er
Three Prosecutors – Megan Wines, Priscilla Jones,
Kyle Senn
Appellate Practice Specialist – William Blitch
Special Investigator – Lucinda McKellar
Computer Forensics Examiner – Bobby Belton
Legal Assistant – Lisa Gray
Law Clerk – Guy Dabbs
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STATE: SLED, NCMEC (SC Chapter)
FEDERAL: ICE, NCIS, US Postal Inspection
Services, FBI, US Probation and
Parole, US Secret Service
LOCAL: 55 County and Local Law Enforcement Agencies
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1 . Increase in the number of ways to access the Internet and in the number of activities.
2. Increasingly younger ages who are accessing the Internet.
3. There are people on the Internet who intend to do harm to our children and teens.
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A recent United Nations report indicates that there are some 750,000 predators on the
Internet .
1 in 7 children have been sexually solicited online.
Once only in chat rooms, predators are now going through other social networking sites such as My
Space and Facebook for information.
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Criminal Solicitation of a Minor – 198 arrests,
137 convictions, 61 pending
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Sexual Exploitation of a Minor – 79 arrests,
59 prosecuted, 13 convictions, 46 pending
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Elementary Grades 3-5
Middle School
High School
Higher Education
Parents
Professional Development
Law Enforcement
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• Keep personal information private.
• Share passwords only with parents.
• “Talk” with people online that you know in real life, not to strangers.
• Be kind and respectful online.
• Social Networking
• Cyberbullying and Sexting
• Identity Theft, Phishing, Shadow Resumes
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Apply parenting wisdom to your child’s screen time. Nothing is more effective than parent knowledge and supervision.
Communicate with your child about their use of media.
Establish guidelines and boundaries for screen time.
Know who your child is communicating with online.
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pfowler@scag.gov
803-734-4098 www.sckids.org
803-734-3970
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