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Designed and Developed by Will Earp, South West Grid for Learning Trust Ltd

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SWGfL is a charity dedicated to empowering the safe and secure use of technology globally. Find out more about online safety and security on our website

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An animated basic introduction to the concept of "media literacy". Media literacy curricula encourages students to ask questions about what they watch, hear, and read. Treating “media” as any sort of text that can be read, trained students will be able to detect bias and propaganda, and determine the reasons for these.

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The second module's learning objectives are:

1. To consider the various dimensions of media literacy.

2. To understand why media literacy and its different dimensions are important for children and young people.

3. To understand how media literacy links to some topical issues such as fake news, data privacy, and copyright.

4. To come up with ideas on how to develop media literacy with your students.

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Better Internet for Kids - Insafe and INHOPE

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Insafe and INHOPE work together through a network of Safer Internet Centres (SICs) across Europe - typically comprising an awareness centre, helpline, hotline and youth panel - to help keep children and young people safe online.

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Richard Adams, education editor

One in five teachers have received abuse aimed at them on social media and online forums from parents and pupils - some as young as seven - a survey by the NASUWT union has found.

One teacher about to go on maternity leave was told online by a parent: "My son will fail now because of you."Another discovered a Facebook page set up by a pupil claiming the teacher wanted to kill him. One pupil told a teacher via Twitter: "You are a paedo and your daughter is a whore."

About 7,500 teachers responded to a survey on the use of technology conducted by the NASUWT, which is holding its annual conference in Birmingham.

A majority of teachers who received online abuse did not report it to their employers or police, in many cases because they did not think it would be taken seriously.

Of teachers who did report abuse to school management, 40% said no action was taken against pupils and 55% said no action was taken against parents. Where abuse was reported to the police, more than three-quarters said no action was taken against pupils or parents.

Facebook was the most commonly cited forum for online abuse, followed by the Rate My Teacher website and Twitter. A small percentage reported receiving abuse through YouTube, Snapchat and Instagram.

Of the respondents, 26% said photos or videos of themselves had been posted online without their consent. "We constantly have to trawl through YouTube, Facebook and Twitter for posts and videos," one teacher said.

Teachers reported having fake Facebook profiles set up with sexual comments, while one said a Facebook post in their name stated: "I will rape every Year 8 pupil who comes to the school."

Chris Keates, general secretary of the NASUWT, said comprehensive guidance on schools and internet safety had been done away with by the current government on the grounds it was bureaucratic.

"Teachers are often traumatised by the attacks made on them through social media," Keates said."Schools need policies which prevent abuse and identify sanctions which will be taken against parents and pupils who abuse staff in this way.

"Schools should also be supporting staff in securing the removal of the offensive material from social media sites and encouraging the staff concerned to go to the police."
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One in five teachers abused online by parents and pupils, survey says

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Richard Adams, education editor One in five teachers have received abuse aimed at them on social media and online forums from parents and pupils - some as young as seven - a survey by the NASUWT union has found.

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The report " Children and Internet use: A comparative analysis of Brazil and seven European countries " presents the state of Internet access and use by children and adolescents in Brazil and seven European countries. One of its main findings is a trend toward more private access to the Internet by 9- to 16-year-olds in Brazil, Belgium, Irland, Italy, Portugal, Romania and the UK.

The report, which is based on comparable surveys conducted between 2013 and 2014 in the participating countries, showed a significant presence of Brazilians on social networking sites (SNS), compared to other countries.

The Brazilian dataset is from the ICT Kids Online Brazil 2013 survey of the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee (CGI.br), conducted by the Regional Center for Studies on the Development of the Information Society (Cetic.br), a department of the Brazilian Network Information Center (NIC.br). In the Brazilian survey, interviews were conducted with 2,261 Internet users 9 to 17 years old, as well as with their parents or legal guardians. The European dataset was produced in the Net Children Go Mobile project.

In Brazil, Internet access by children at school was lower but the country surpasses other countries in access to mobile devices and the presence of 9- and 10-year-olds on SNS. According to the report, one out of three Brazilian children Internet users accessed the Internet on the move (33%), a figure higher than that of countries such as Romania (15%), Ireland (13%), Portugal (13%) and Belgium (11%). Access in the bedroom or another private room at home was common among children from nearly all the countries analyzed: over half (56%) in Brazil; 85% in Denmark; 70% in the UK; 69% in Italy and Romania; and 60% in India and Portugal. Belgium was the only exception (48%).

Education and online activity

At school, Internet access was reported by only one-third of the Brazilian children that use the Internet (36%). This proportion was lower than that observed in most of the European countries analyzed: UK (88%), Denmark (80%), Romania (53%), Portugal (49%), Ireland (47%) and Belgium (39%), with the exception of Italy (26%). "Instead of restricting children's access to the Internet, Brazilian schools should value the activity and invest in this technology, allowing children to fully explore the potential of the Internet and learn the skills for safe Internet use", says Alexandre Barbosa, manager of Cetic.br.

Watching video clips and visiting SNS were the most reported activities for children 11 to 16 years old across the studied countries. Danish (70%), Romanian (58%), Irish (49%) and British (49%) children preferred to watch videos online, while visiting SNS was reported as the main activity by Italian (59%), Brazilian (52%), Portuguese (50%) and Belgian (48%) children.
Social networks
Regarding the presence on SNS, 78% of Brazilian children Internet users had their own profile, which was the same in Romania (78%) and not far from Denmark (81%). Across the analyzed countries, Brazilian 9- and 10-year-old children were the most present on SNS: Romania (50%), Denmark (41%), Portugal (26%) Belgium (22%), the UK (19%), Italy (15%) and Ireland (14%).

Another finding was that a significant portion of Brazilian children reported having a large number of online contacts and did not show much concern about maintaining public profiles on social media. In Brazil, over half the children (54%) reported having more than 100 contacts in their main SNS profiles, similar to Romania (64%). Furthermore, 42% of Brazilian children set their SNS profiles to public, whereas in Italy that percentage was only 15%.

Tje full report is available here

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The report " Children and Internet use: A comparative analysis of Brazil and seven European countries " presents the state of Internet access and use by children and adolescents in Brazil and seven European countries. One of its main findings is a trend toward more private access to the Internet by 9- to 16-year-olds in Brazil, Belgium, Irland, Italy, Portugal, Romania and the UK.

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It's Safer Internet Day 2017, and Microsoft is challenging people around the world to embrace "digital civility" and to treat each other with respect and dignity online. It may sound simple, but new Microsoft research shows people are concerned about the tone of online interactions and worry that risks will increase in the future.

The research prompted the creation of our Digital Civility Index, which we're also announcing today - a new measure of people's safety online and exposure to risks.
New global study on civility, safety and online interactions
Last June, we conducted a study in 14 countries,[1] gauging the attitudes and perceptions of teens (ages 13-17) and adults (ages 18-74) about the state of digital civility today. We measured survey respondents' lifetime exposure to 17 online risks[2] across four categories: behavioral, reputational, sexual and personal/intrusive.

Some of the questions we asked included:

How do you feel about civility, safety and interactions online?

Which online risks have you and your close circle experienced?

How concerned are you about those 17 risks?

When and how often have the risks occurred?

What consequences and actions were taken?

Where did you and others turn for help?

Results show people experienced these top five risks online:

1. Unwanted contact

2. Being treated mean

3. Trolling

4. Receiving unwanted sexts

5. Online harassment

Here are some additional highlights from our research:

Two out of three respondents said they had fallen victim to at least one risk; that percentage swelled to 78 percent when participants also accounted for the online experiences of their friends and family members.

50 percent reported being "extremely or very" worried about life online generally.

62 percent said they did not know or were unsure where to get help when they encountered an online risk.

Benchmarking the state of digital civility
We used the results to inform what we're calling our "Digital Civility Index." We computed the index for each country surveyed, as well as an international reading that includes all 14. The index works like a golf score: the lower the value (on a scale from zero to 100), the lower the respondents' risk exposure and the higher the perceived level of online civility among people in that country.

The international Digital Civility Index score stands at 65. Results show a person, on average, experienced 2.2 online safety risks out of the 17 included in the study. Countries that registered the lowest index readings (and thus the highest levels of perceived digital civility) were the U.K. (45) Australia (51), and the U.S. (55). Countries on the lower end were South Africa (78), Mexico (76) and Russia (74). The new index builds on the Microsoft Computing Safety Index released from 2010 to 2013, specifically that index's behavioral component.

So, what does all this mean? People are establishing social norms online that include treating each other with respect and dignity, but there's more that we can all do. We'd like to see digital civility - grounded in empathy - become a universal message and a common-sense behavior, so the internet can be a safe place for everyone to exchange ideas, learn, play and connect.
Join our Digital Civility Challenge
In an attempt to put empathy more front and center in digital dialogues, we're introducing Microsoft's Digital Civility Challenge. The challenge calls on people to commit daily to four ideals and to share their pledge on social media, using the hashtags #Challenge4Civility and #Im4DigitalCivility. Specifically, we're encouraging individuals to:

1. Live the Golden Rule by acting with empathy, compassion and kindness in every interaction, and treating everyone they connect with online with dignity and respect.

2. Respect differences and honor diverse perspectives, and when disagreements surface to engage thoughtfully, and avoid name-calling and personal attacks.

3. Pause before replying to things people disagree with, and not posting or sending anything that could hurt someone else, damage reputations or threaten people's safety.

4. Stand up for myself and others by supporting those who are targets of online abuse or cruelty, reporting activity that threatens anyone's safety, and preserving evidence of inappropriate or unsafe behavior.

As we rally people, peers and partners to join our challenge, we recognize and will continue to seek opportunities to unite our work with others'. For example, the Tyler Clementi Foundation 's #endbullying campaign highlights that people behave behind keyboards in ways they would never conduct themselves face to face - largely because empathy isn't naturally present in the digital space.

"We could eradicate most cruelty, bullying and humiliation that occurs online if every bystander became an 'upstander,'" says Sean Kosofsky, executive director of the Tyler Clementi Foundation. "We can interrupt harassment, report it and reach out to the affected person." (Click here for additional comments from other leading advocacy organizations and groups in favor of spreading the word about digital civility.)
Best practices for digital civility
Beyond informative data and fun social challenges, we need to unite and grow a culture of digital civility - and everyone has a role to play. Microsoft's aim with this new initiative is to start a conversation about how being civil online can benefit society. Indeed, civility in everyday interactions fosters vibrant, engaged communities.

Along with the new index, we're also sharing suggested best practices for digital civility. As I recently said, we don't profess to have all the answers - not by any means, but we want to offer an evidentiary starting point for further discussion and engagement. Our hope is that policymakers, companies and organizations will consider our suggestions and build on our initial efforts through fresh digital civility-related projects and programs.
Safer Internet Day resources
We hope you'll get involved this Safer Internet Day, and champion digital civility today and throughout the year. Our website and resources page are a great place to start. They offer advice and guidance for exploring and handling almost any online safety situation. Additionally, beginning today, Microsoft Store locations across the United States will offer free Online Safety workshops available for anyone. Whether you're a student looking for ways ensure your privacy or a parent who wants to learn the best practices for keeping your family safe online, you can learn more by visiting your local Microsoft Store and signing up for a free, in-store Online Safety workshop.

For more regular news and information, connect with us on Facebook and Twitter. Take the Digital Civility Challenge today and let's aim to make Safer Internet Day 2017 the most thoughtful and fruitful yet!

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[1] Countries surveyed: Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Chile, China, France, Germany, India, Mexico, Russia, South Africa, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States.

[2] Risks discussed:

Behavioral - Treated mean, trolling, online harassment, cyberbullying, swatting

Reputation - Doxing, damage to personal reputation, damage to work reputation

Sexual - Receiving unwanted sexts, solicitation, sending unwanted sexts, sextortion, "revenge porn"

Personal/Intrusive - Unwanted contact, hate speech, discrimination, terrorism recruiting

Tags: Digital Civility Index, Online Safety, Safer Internet Day, youths

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Microsoft releases Digital Civility Index, challenges people to be more empathetic online - Microsoft on the Issues

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It's Safer Internet Day 2017, and Microsoft is challenging people around the world to embrace "digital civility" and to treat each other with respect and dignity online. It may sound simple, but new Microsoft research shows people are concerned about the tone of online interactions and worry that risks will increase in the future.

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The first module's learning objectives are:

To understand the main risks faced by children and young people when they go online

To discover how schools can support pupils and their parents and staff

To understand what teachers need to take into consideration with regard to managing their own online reputation

To discover whether there are any statutory requirements with regard to the teaching of online safety in schools

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AN example for fake news