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Contents:

Watch Over Wednesday:

A new risk particularly to
young girls.

The Governance of e-Safety:

How does your school
“manage” e-safety?

What’s happening in
Tip: Twitterland?
Brilliant educational resources
for schools.
Within this document you will see – More à followed by random
text, this is known as a URL shortener which saves typing out really
long web addresses. If you are reading this electronically you can
click on the link. If you are reading from paper you can type the
address link into your web browser.
Question:

Who manages your internet filtering and how do you know it is

being managed? Do you know the difference between managing
and blocking?

Watch Over Wednesday – new risk

Did You Know
This a new trend by mainly
People spend over 700 billion young girls posting YouTube
minutes per month on videos and asking, “Am I pretty?”
Facebook.
Whilst we may be able to
There are now over 465 understand why young girls are
million Twitter accounts. doing this, they need to realize
they are opening up to a plethora
of trouble: unwanted attention;
In 2011 an average of 35
inappropriate remarks; bullying;
billion tweets were sent
predators amongst others.
every day.
A number of reports cite that 1 in
5 children have received
unsolicited sexual attention
on the internet. This is a
concerning statistic and one that
will only increase if children don’t
understand the risks they are
exposing themselves to.
The internet opens up a whole new
world of communication for all of
us, but that new world has a dark
side to it. It is vitally important that
children, young people, staff,
educators etc. are aware of this
darker side, understand what e-
safety is, and importantly what to
do in the event of an incident.
 e-Safety Governance
Have you considered the risks?
The safeguarding of children and young people in schools or any other
establishment where there are children is paramount. To most this
statement would be common sense, but it does beg the question why
Ofsted have deemed it necessary to up the ante on safeguarding under
its new inspections. In this context, I am talking about e-safety. For
those that may not be aware e-safety is applicable to both behavior and
safety.
Many schools do a great job of teaching our children how to be safe
using new technologies. This is achievable because there are some
fantastic resources already created by professional agencies for this
purpose. Many schools do a great job of teaching our children how to

Here are some questions for you to consider:
1. Do all of your staff understand what e-
safety is?
2. Do you have an e-safety officer in
school, somebody who is
appropriately trained and keeps up
with the latest risks and advice?
3. Do you allow students to use
communication tools in school, i.e.
email or social networking? If so do
you understand the possible
implications to your school of
inappropriate use of these tools, i.e.
cyber bullying?
4. Do you loan laptops or other devices to
staff/students? Have you risk assessed
inappropriate use of these devices and
implications to the school?
5. Have you, or are you considering a
bring your own device (BYOD) policy
in school?
I could go on and on, but you get the idea.
This is what I term the governance of e-safety.
In other words, for every facility you make
available there is a risk to the school, and it is
imperative these risks are identified,
assessed and mitigated.
Let’s use an example. Peter is from an under-
privileged family, no access to any ICT at
home. The school loans Peter a laptop so that
he can do some work. A few days later
Peter’s mum rings the school and states her
son has been accessing illegal images. She
blames the school as there was no filtering,
no active monitoring software. Potentially
the school could be held vicariously liable.
When it comes to technology and e-safety I
have found that this is an area which is little
understood, a case of “how do you know
what you don’t know”, but it is also an area
which has become ever more important.
In a state maintained school the advice is
slightly different to an academy due to the
different legal responsibilities, however you
should not under-estimate the significance of
e-safety governance.
If you need help in this area, drop me an
email: support@esafety-adviser.com

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 If you are a Twitter user you will already
know that education professionals and
others share brilliant examples of their own
+
work and others that they have come across.
What’s Happening in
Each edition of this newsletter showcases Twitterland?
some of these resources for you to use in
your school, or at home, or for you to get ideas of your own.
Some great educational
resources from people I
Ian Addison is a primary school teacher and ICT co-ordinator
working at St John the Baptist Primary School, Waltham Chase, am following.
Hampshire. A well respected figure in Twitterland he takes the
use of ICT in education that extra mile whilst freely giving time
to advise and help other educators. Take a look at his blog to
see some of his thoughts and great work. In particular have a
look at his Projects for inspiration.
http://ianaddison.net/

iEARN – Learning with the world, not just about it.

130 countries, 30 languages, 40,000 educators, 2 million youth.
iEARN (International Education and Resource Network) is the world's largest non-profit
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network that enables teachers and youth to use the Internet and other technologies to
collaborate on projects that enhance learning and make a difference.
http://www.iearn.org

Do you know what the “Flipped Classroom” is? Have a look at this site, it will tell you what it is
and shows 3 resources to record, present and host your lessons online.
http://goo.gl/8jDl8

Edmodo
If you are not familiar with Edmodo it is a microblogging system designed specifically for
teachers and students. Using Edmodo teachers can create a microblogging network for their
classes, a fantastic way to get the children working collaboratively.
http://www.edmodo.com/

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