parenting with the technology: being tech savvy and cyber-safe
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Parenting with the technology: being tech savvy and cyber-safe. Monique Dalli – Leader of E-Learning Gilroy Catholic College. Our aims this evening:. Understand their digital behaviours Have strategies at home that mimic school boundaries Specific apps to AVOID Look at making devices safer - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Parenting with the technology: being tech savvy and cyber-safe.
Monique Dalli – Leader of E-LearningGilroy Catholic College
Our aims this evening:
• Understand their digital behaviours• Have strategies at home that mimic school
boundaries• Specific apps to AVOID• Look at making devices safer
Be equipped with knowledge!!
YOU need to know
• Their passwords!!• How to turn them off!!• When gaming should stop• What your child is using technology for
(school/home)• What they have accounts FOR/IN – negotiated
process• Schools ICT policy
Some strategies. . .
• Getting involved/being nosey! • “Checking” aka snooping• Turning wifi OFF• Charging stations• Skype is GREAT!• Discuss WORST CASE scenarios• Praise safe online behaviour
Putting that into practice at home
• Time limits/digital free time• Password sharing policy• Discussing boundaries• Life mirroring digital life• Punishing where it’s appropriate• Be “friends”
What apps are NOT recommended
• KIK messenger- anonymous messaging service.
• Google Chrome – allows for “incognito” browsing- can search for explicit content.
More no-no’s
WINK
EVEN MORE no-no’s
SNAP CHAT
How does cyber stalking happen?
• Used school newsletter• Searched on instagram• Used location to see if user was nearby• Looked at followers/following lists to stalk
some more
• Are YOU scared ??
What’s wrong with what I found?
• NO FULL NAMES online!• Locations turned OFF• NO external links in your profiles• No SCHOOL UNIFORMS! (sports teams?)• Why do you guys have so many friends?
The REALITY and fine print
• The TOS (terms of service) on instagram you MUST BE 13 years of age.
• IF you come into any misadventure, AND you are under 13, there is nothing that can be legally done.
• “you are solely responsible for your interaction with users online and offline”
• “BY ACCESSING THE SERVICE, YOU UNDERSTAND THAT YOU MAY BE WAIVING RIGHTS WITH RESPECT TO CLAIMS THAT ARE AT THIS TIME UNKNOWN OR UNSUSPECTED “
Who ARE YOU really?
• What would a stranger see about you online?
• Is this the real you?
• How would you feel if your parents READ EVERY WORD and SAW EVERY IMAGE?
• Do you understand how easy it is for creepy people to find you?
Moral of the story
• Private accounts• Be nosey• NO EXTERNAL LINKS!• Be your child’s FRIEND! • My rules or nothing!
What are “Parental Controls”
• Restricts services, apps, downloads, setting changes and can even limit the volume!!
• Can specifically disable the search and download of explicit and age restricted content on itunes, siri, movies and apps.
• YOU keep the password private/secure, NOTE- It cannot be easily reset.
Let’s enable some parental controls!
1. Go to settings- 2. ENABLE RESTRICTIONS3. Change the rating country to Australia4. Turn OFF in-app purchases5. And!! – lock the password in ALLOW CHANGES
Discuss at home WHAT you think is appropriate access/ restrictions.
Q&A ?
• Any general questions ?
Take these down for later:• http://www.bewebsmart.com/• Maggie Hamilton books• http://www.cybersmart.gov.au/