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Webwise Overview
1. Irish Internet Safety Awareness Centre
Professional Development Service for Teachers
@Webwise_Ireland
Facebook.com/webwise
2. About Us
• Professional Development Service for Teachers – Technology
in Education
• Agency of Department of Education and Skills
• Co-funded by EU Safer Internet Programme
• Irish member of Insafe Network
• Safer Internet Ireland Consortium
3. What does Webwise do?
• Articles and Advice
• CPD
• Acceptable Use Policy
• Safer Internet Day
• Education Resources
9. • CPD
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WEBWISE TEACHERS AND SOCIAL MEDIA
For students to think about and talk about what they do online.
SAFER USE OF INTERNET IN THE CLASSROOM
To help students recognize cyberbullying and to take positive action to
bring it to an end.
FACE 2 FACE SUMMER COURSES
Students will be able to respond in a positive, sympathetic, and
effective manner to being involved in online bullying situations.
TEACHER CPD.IE
Students will describe appropriate responses to
potentially harmful situations involving photo
sharing .
Talks and Conferences
ETB|, JMB etc.
10. MY SELFIE
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MY ONLINE WORLD
For students to think about and talk about what
they do online.
WHAT IS CYBERBULLYING
To help students recognize cyberbullying and to
take positive action to bring it to an end.
HOW BULLYING FEELS
Students will be able to respond in a positive,
sympathetic, and effective manner to being
involved in online bullying situations.
YOU’VE BEEN FRAMED
Students will describe appropriate responses to
potentially harmful situations involving photo
sharing .
#UP2US
Students will devise guidelines for taking and
sharing photos and for better internet use in
general.
Give the course participants time to browse the Teacher section of the Webwise site.
Set participants the task of finding:
one advice article that they find to be particularly interesting and
one resource or video that they would use to promote internet safety amongst their students.
Have participants share the advice article/resources they found to be particularly interesting.
Give participants time to explore the Parents section of the Webwise website.
Set participants the task of:
learning about one app that is popular with their students and
finding one article that might be particularly useful for parents of students in their class.
When participants have had the chance to explore the Parents section of the website, have them share what they learned and found.
Devising an Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) is an important first step in addressing the issue of internet safety at school level.
An Acceptable Use Policy is a document which addresses all rights, privileges, responsibilities and sanctions associated with the internet. It is usually drawn up by teachers and management in consultation with parents, signed by students and their parents or guardians and often incorporated into the school’s overall ICT policy. AUPs may differ from school to school depending on school circumstances, student and teacher educational needs and technical infrastructures. It may be similar in the way it refers to sanctions or legal responsibilities.
As the rationale for having an AUP is primarily to promote good practice and safe, responsible use of the internet, it is a very important document. Its main goals are:
To educate students, parents and teachers about the potential of the internet as a valuable learning resource
To define the parameters of behaviour and specify the consequences of violating those parameters
To identify the school strategy on promoting the safe use of the internet and address the risks associated with its use
To provide schools with legal protection from liability
The Webwise AUP Guidelines (http://www.webwise.ie/teachers/updating-your-internet-safety-aup-2/) are especially useful for schools looking to develop or update an AUP.
Set the participants a task of:
Reviewing their own school’s AUP and considering how they might make their students more aware of the contents of the AUP.
If a school’s AUP is not available online, the participants should review the Sample AUPs found at http://www.webwise.ie/teachers/sample-acceptable-use-policies-2/
Give the course participants time to browse the Teacher section of the Webwise site.
Set participants the task of finding:
one advice article that they find to be particularly interesting and
one resource or video that they would use to promote internet safety amongst their students.
Have participants share the advice article/resources they found to be particularly interesting.
Safer Internet Day is an EU initiative to promote a safer internet for all users, especially young people. Safer Internet Day is celebrated in more than 100 countries worldwide. It is promoted in Ireland by the PDST Technology in Education and Webwise. This year it was celebrated on Tuesday 9th February 2016 by 67,342 young people and 463 schools around Ireland. Safer Internet Day 2017 will be celebrated on Tuesday, February 7th.
Safer Internet Day is a good opportunity to promote key internet safety messages to the whole school community.
Set participants the task of:
reviewing the Safer Internet Day events map (http://www.saferinternetday.ie/events/) and discovering how other schools celebrated Safer Internet Day 2016.
Examining the activities for schools (http://www.saferinternetday.ie/schools/) and picking one activity suitable for their class.
MySelfie and the Wider World: This Primary Anti-Cyber Bullying Teachers’ Handbook is an SPHE resource developed to engage 5th and 6th class primary school students on the topic of cyber bullying. A series of short animations are the centrepiece of the resource. These will help students develop the skills and understanding to be responsible, socially conscious and effective internet users, as they explore social networks for the first time.
Tutor to show participants how to access the 5 MySelfie lessons from http://www.webwise.ie/teachers/myselfie/ and to go through Lesson 1 with the group, showing how to download the worksheets and quiz
MySelfie and the Wider World: This Primary Anti-Cyber Bullying Teachers’ Handbook is an SPHE resource developed to engage 5th and 6th class primary school students on the topic of cyber bullying. A series of short animations are the centrepiece of the resource. These will help students develop the skills and understanding to be responsible, socially conscious and effective internet users, as they explore social networks for the first time.
Tutor to show participants how to access the 5 MySelfie lessons from http://www.webwise.ie/teachers/myselfie/ and to go through Lesson 1 with the group, showing how to download the worksheets and quiz
The Webwise Primary School Programme has been developed for primary school teachers who wish to introduce internet safety into their teaching of the Social Personal and Health Education (SPHE) curriculum. It is designed to further address aspects of both the personal safety objectives and the media education objectives of the SPHE curriculum that are not specifically covered by the Stay Safe, Walk Tall, or RSE resources. This resource will assist and support educators when teaching students about the safe and responsible uses of the Internet.
The first part of the resource focuses on skills needed for surfing the web such as; effective and safe searching, downloading images and determining what online content can be trusted. The second section deals with the skills required to safely and effectively communicate online or by text message. It deals with issues relating to sharing personal information online, treating others with respect, cyberbullying, responding to media, in particular digital media and dealing with spam.
The Webwise programme utilises a range of teaching methodologies with particular emphasis on active learning, the principal learning and teaching approach recommended for SPHE. It provides opportunities for cross-curricula integration in particular with Drama, Language and Visual Arts. It is made up of paper-based classroom activities and digital interactive lessons. The interactive cartoons are designed to be used as a whole-class activity using a whiteboard or digital projector. The activities may also be set up for a pair, an individual, or a small group to use at a classroom computer.
The topic of sexting is best addressed in the context of the SPHE classroom, and more specifically in the lessons that deal with the topic of Relationships and Sexuality Education. It should be addressed in the implementation of the curriculum both at junior and senior cycle levels.
Measures to raise awareness and prevent non-consensual sexting should examine should engage pupils in addressing problems when they arise. In particular, strategies need to help foster empathy, respect and resilience. Prevention and awareness raising measures should also focus on educating pupils on appropriate online behaviour, and on developing a culture of reporting any concerns about sexting. Prevention strategies should take particular account of the needs of pupils with special educational needs.
Lessons focus specifically on the laws around sexting, on the peer pressure and stereotyping that can contribute to non-consensual sharing and on how students can get help when incidents of non-consensual sharing occur. One of the lessons also explores the practice of victim-blaming, through the For Your Eyes Only animation and through an extract from Louise O’Neill’s bestselling book, Asking For It.
The resource features differentiated worksheets. This means that the resource can be easily adapted for use with students of different abilities and with different learning needs.
