Inet+Safety


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by [|Liudmyla Klymenko] - Sunday, 9 October 2011, 09:23 PM || [|Reply] || by [|Raisa Istomina] - Saturday, 22 October 2011, 05:51 PM || "A generation digital divide" provokes children escape from offline into online world, as parents not always can share their children's interests, preferences and values. I agree that parents and children can take family learning courses in ICT together and then they can gain a better understanding of them, theoretically. In practice, it is almost impossible as we all pretend to be busy doing smth very important for us but not learning together with the children.
 * [[image:http://courses.britishcouncil.org/pub/learningtechnologies/user/pix.php/2043/f2.jpg width="35" height="35" caption="Picture of Liudmyla Klymenko" link="http://courses.britishcouncil.org/pub/learningtechnologies/user/view.php?id=2043&course=27"]] || Opinions of the Safer children report
 * || What are your thoughts after reading the Safer children... report?
 * Do you agree with the benefits?
 * Are there any recommendations you think are missing?
 * Could you make use of this resource in your teaching situation?
 * Is there anything like this in your language that could be used with parents and children in your school?
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 * || I impressed! The author draws our attention to important items. First of all, it's about how to be web literate, remember Netiquette, and always respect others not to do any harm. If everybody remembers this then there will be no risks in using violent and unappropriate information. But the reality is different.

As for possibly missing recommendations, I can't add anything. The info in the report is new for me, the problems highlighted didn't make me think about before. (There are no facilities in the university to use I-net resourse on a regular base.) I began thinking about the risks enumareted. A bit later I'll be ready to say smth definite and able to make use of the resource in my teaching situation.

[|Show parent] | [|Reply] || by [|Kseniia Rozdolska] - Tuesday, 25 October 2011, 04:57 PM || [|Show parent] | [|Reply] || by [|Tetyana Yarmysh] - Monday, 24 October 2011, 02:34 PM ||
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 * || I agree with everything while I was reding this report. But in reality that's very difficult. First of all the parents don't have time (or don't want to have it) to bring up their children. We teachers understand that if you want your pupils to produce smth you need to present and practice, especially practice a lot. I liked the paragraph about teaching swimming and crossing the road. But nowadays it's hard to explain the parents their mistakes. Especially when the teacher is much younger then they are. The idea of this report is very good, I really have nothing to add. I just really want it to work in our world, because tjdays children are our future.
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 * || I can't deny the fact that the Internet has a lot of benefits especially if used wisely. Unfortunately, it is often used by children and young people as leisure activities. Take an example of small towns where you can hardly find enough clubs or free of charge sport groups to put your kid in and parents are busy working trying to make both ends meet . Some of them are even happy to see their dear son or daughter sitting at the computer and are not aware of danger hidden in their 'stay at home' as they are more worried about unsafety outside.

No doubt, there should be a national strategy for children Internet safety that would help children and families be better educated in terms of risks and control. There is much to do for the government and industry but we could also do something on the school level. The question of children safety in the Internet could be included on the agenda of class and school parents conferences. Courses 'Safety in the Internet' is a good way of drawing students' attention to this issue and is going to contribute to building their resilience so that they could navigate in this new medium. [|Show parent] | [|Reply] || by [|Angela Moninets] - Monday, 24 October 2011, 09:34 PM || There possibly can be something missing, but that is not me who can judge, for I find everything said crucial for providing a better learning environment for students. [|Show parent] | [|Reply] || by [|Liudmila Ariutova] - Wednesday, 26 October 2011, 12:29 AM || [|Show parent] | [|Reply] || by [|Helen Onyshchenko] - Wednesday, 26 October 2011, 11:39 AM || I liked the quote that was summing up the report, the idea of which is that children don't need our protection in the cyber world, it's our guidance that they need. In fact that's the technique I'm using with my 7-year-old daughter. Rather than forbid her to climb the trees, for instance, I teach her how to climb the trees, how to choose safe branches etc. In the same way, we can teach our children to surf the Internet safely and take the necessary actions in case they face something unpleasant, suspicious or frustrating. Unfortunately, parents often don't have enough time or knowledge to do this. As a result, some of them forbid their children to use Internet at home, while others let their children surf the net without giving them the necessary intstructions or warning of the potential dangers. I'm not sure if e-safety is taught at our schools. I'd like to find out how much is done in Ukraine to assure the e-safety of our children. [|Show parent] | [|Reply] || by [|Myroslava Loboiko] - Wednesday, 26 October 2011, 07:43 PM || [|Show parent] | [|Reply] || by [|Nataly Katsaran] - Thursday, 27 October 2011, 09:27 PM || [] More and more school sites publish I-net Safety Recommendations for parents and children. [] There are even proved programs to restrict loading harmful and dangerous sites' pages on private computers especially when children's account is activated [] It'll be intersting to develope the projects at schools run by teachers or other authorities but not remind about the i-net safety only on the 9th February the official date of Safety in i-net. [|Show parent] | [|Reply] || by [|Liudmyla Klymenko] - Friday, 28 October 2011, 10:57 PM ||
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 * || I reckon it is very wise that creating a World Wide Web was followed by a deeper concern - not only how to provide people with an opportunity to exchange information freely and fast, but also how to make it a pleasant and secure experience for all participants. If we have taken on a responsibility to provide children with the Internet access to help them learn, we need to make sure they are safe and sound and that they are benefiting, but not get demoralized.
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 * || I agree with the benefits. As for students' safety I think it depends on the instructions and information connected with the objectives of their work. If they are well motivated and focused it might not be interesting for them to surf on the Net. They won't need to look through so -called Harmful information. Anyway I agree with Tetyana that the state programmes defending children should be adopted.
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 * || I don't have anything to add to the report, neither do I deny the benefits of using the Internet.
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 * || I can’t deny the benefits of the internet but I can’t help feeling concerned about the safety on the web either. I should confess I hadn’t paid much attention to the problem until my son started surfing the net. I was worried greatly about it as I knew from my experience the net was far from being safe especially for children. But I’ve got a question - Is our life safe? – Definitely not. I think as we learn to live and avoid dangerous and threatening situations, so we should learn ourselves and teach children to avoid possible threats and tempts on the net. I really appreciate the information given in the report. It helped me to find a lot of answers, it explained me much. And I am firmly convinced that the matter of safety on the net needs a lot of actions to be taken. Public awareness and concern are a part of the solution. I am sure that some government actions should be taken as well. And of course, talks, discussions, explanations are very helpful. We should be ready to give the helping hand to children and they will only benefit from the internet.
 * [[image:http://courses.britishcouncil.org/pub/learningtechnologies/user/pix.php/2038/f2.jpg width="35" height="35" caption="Picture of Nataly Katsaran" link="http://courses.britishcouncil.org/pub/learningtechnologies/user/view.php?id=2038&course=27"]] || Re: Opinions of the Safer children report
 * || To my mind the report gives fundamental resource of National strategy for E-net safety. The benefits for the society are indisputable if the project works. Children need to be taught and guided in i-net safely.We can't exclude the fact new technologies have become the part of our lives as we can't ensure kids safe surfing twenty-four hours a day. The problem concerns all the levels of society: schools, family, government. As far as I know Ukraine has done the same. The rapid development of i-net users' number and spreading of it among different aged children provoke growing-up demoralization of the society in whole. That's why National Expert Council has been working on the similar project
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 * || Thank you, Nataly, for the highly informative contribution. It's useful to be aware of what's been done at the national level to ensure the e-safety.

[|Show parent] | [|Reply] || by [|Vera Moiseenko] - Saturday, 29 October 2011, 11:17 PM ||
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 * || Thanks for useful links!!! Have you found the full version of "white" list?

[|Show parent] | [|Reply] || by [|Angela Nikishina] - Friday, 28 October 2011, 05:56 PM || [|Show parent] | [|Reply] || by [|Natalia Kolotova] - Saturday, 29 October 2011, 10:29 PM || [|Show parent] | [|Reply] || by [|Vera Moiseenko] - Saturday, 29 October 2011, 11:32 PM ||
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 * || The Safer children report gives thorough recommendations for the I-net users.I find it very useful for teachers and parents as the information provided is vital and by all means should be applied while teaching.There should be special classes on the matter at schools or at least teaher's talk and guidance applied as much as possible. And,of course,like it was shown in the report,the issue needs to be considered on the governmental level.
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 * || It's obvious that once the Internet became so popular the number of online abusers increased respectively. Definitely measures should be taken to help children avoid possible dangers of Internet, and the mentioned report provides clear guidelines how to do that.I also liked this resource[]
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 * || Dear Natalia,I am really grateful to you for the given resource! It's really helpful and we can find so many other links on the theme there!

[|Show parent] | [|Reply] || by [|Vera Moiseenko] - Sunday, 30 October 2011, 12:01 AM ||
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 * || I also agree with the benefits - that it's time to teach both parents and children to use the Internet. And there are so many recommendations there that it's really too difficult to add smth. But the given recommendations seemed to be too "ideal", too optimistic... I think it's difficult to provide them in Ukraine.

As for me the benefits made me start thinking about real actions - how can I teach my pupils and their parents to use the Internet "correctly". Thanks to Natalia's links I discovered that we have Ukrainian Internet Association and there is really so much information to use about Internet safety!!! So now I realize that my school doesn't keep up to date! Our pupils start learning IT at the age of 13-14 (at our school) (and very rarely some primary classes have IT as facultative). But I consider it's too late! Children start using the Internet much earlier! So in Ukraine our Ministry of Education should add Internet lessons as compulsory subject (e. g. once a week from primary school).

Our school administration demands carrying out of information training lecture at parents' meeting so I can prepare information just about Internet safety to make them start thinking about it because as it was said most parents even don't bother what sites their children surf every day. [|Show parent] | [|Reply] || by [|Irina Dygal] - Sunday, 30 October 2011, 07:24 PM || [|Sh] ||
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 * || Benefits of using the net are really big, but most children use the Internet for different purposes: their favourite sites mostly games and social networks. They waste their time chatting in the net or playing stupid games instead of using the sites more efficiently[[image:http://courses.britishcouncil.org/pub/learningtechnologies/theme/britcounv3_nav/pix/s/sad.gif caption="sad"]]