Doug Johnson

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Predators and Cyberbullies: A reality check

Safety Issues: protecting students from predators, protecting students from each other, protect them from themselves. Easier to protect students in web1.0. How do we protect our students from online predators? Your chances are higher of being harassed by an 8th grade girl rather than an adult male.

If you don’t tell your children that you love then somebody online will. It is the students who are at risk who are more likely to have trouble on the Internet. www.cyberbully.org

Cyberbuyllying shouldn’t be treated too differently from how we treat normal bullying. Mankato district Cyberbullying guide.

One of the first things that we should ask teachers is what is on their myspace so if/when parents google them what would show up??

Students need to know the potential ramifications of what is on the Internet www.archive.org can use the wayback machine to get a snapshot of the Internet so things are never really removed from the Internet.

The dangers are probably mostly from the students themselves. Myspace unravelled A parents guide to Teen social networking

The danger of web2.0 is not from others online but from what they put out online.

We confuse content with format. We don’t ban magazines because of the inappropriate ones neither should we ban the web 2.0 tools.

Filers are not effective in protecting students. Can get up to 91% accuracy. Need other controls. Most students not getting i9nto trouble at school they are getting into trouble at home. Students can now bring in their own mobile devices with the Internet which we can’t control or block.

Schools need to be proactive they need to be educating students AND parents. Mankato has a resource page for parents on their website. Screen products carefully and keep away from fear based products as research has shown that they don’t work.

Schools should allow kids to make mistakes from which they can recover. We must show that we are practicing due diligence

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Think b4ulink

3p’s protect your privcy, property, appropriatatly

Create low temptation environments eg layout of computer rooms, your activity maybe remotely monitored, filtering software.

Education can be enhanced with the internet.

Need to make educators responsible for blocking an unblocking the sites not the tech staff.

Great session valuable resources!!