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Aims of the course-
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The course aims to introduce tutors/managers to the issues involved in making information technology safe for learners - whether they are children, young people or adults.
The course will:
- Provide a guide to the many resources available on the internet.
- Help tutors to give advice or prepare lessons which cover the major issues of e-safety.
- Enable managers to consider what their organisation's response to the issues should be.
Each section of this course has some introductory comments or definitions which will put the material into context.
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News on E-Safety (updated 17/05/10)
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| 1 | What is E-Safety and why is it needed?
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The resources in this section are a powerpoint introduction to e-safety explaining why it is needed and the government's strategy, a link to Becta's site on e-safety, a short explanation and links to the Byron review and a short task to assess your organisation's approach to e-safety.
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| 2 | Children and Young People Issues - cyberbullying, social networking and child protection
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| 3 | Personal and Financial Security
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This section looks at the issues which affect those with PCs and bank accounts - young adults, adult learners, tutors and teachers. There are a lot of websites about keeping your financial data secure, avoiding scams and keeping your PC working properly. All of them have useful teaching material for those covering these issues with their learners. There is also an site covering potential problems for those in work - Not Safe at Work.
Take the Get Safe Online quiz to find out how much you know about keeping yourself secure.
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| 4 | The Organisational Response
| Different organisations will need to frame different responses to e-safety issues. The educational response will vary depending on whether children, young people or adults are being taught.
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| 5 | The Teaching Response
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Teaching about internet safety is more complex than road safety. There are more issues to cover and there are technical elements to being safe. It's not sensible to attempt to cover every issue. Also too much information in too much detail will only lead to fear and confusion. The teaching approach has to be proportionate to the risk involved and should bear in mind the digital literacy of the students and their existing knowledge of the issues.
So for students in FE there may need to be more emphasis on social networking, copyright and plagiarism issues. For adults there would be more on personal and financial security and keeping PCs free of viruses. While for parents there is a need to keep them aware of child protection issues.
Fortunately there is a huge range of resources available for teaching about e-safety, some of which are pointed to in the course materials above, so there should be no shortage of appropriate resources. Many of the resources are also backed by teaching plans and sample lesson plans.
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 Sample lesson plan from Kidsmart PDF document- Webwise teacher handbook PDF document
- Teaching E-Safety - Becta Handbook PDF document
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JISC RSC East Midlands
The JISC Regional Support Centre for the East Midlands is one of 13 RSCs covering the UK. It's our job to support the development of e-learning and Information Learning Technology in FE, Sixth Form and Specialist Colleges, Adult and Community Learning, Work Based Learning and aspects of Higher Education. We cover teaching and learning, management, staff development, technical IT and business support.
This course was devised by the RSC East Midlands. It is freely available for use by the clients of any RSC but copyright and usage restrictions apply (see link below)
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