1 / 12

Enhancing E-Safety Policies: Ensuring Fit for Purpose in Educational Settings

This document examines the effectiveness of e-safety policies in educational institutions. It considers the needs of diverse learners, including those with disabilities, and emphasizes the importance of accessible, age-appropriate materials. The text discusses methods for evaluating the clarity and relevance of acceptable use policies and suggests improvements to better equip learners for safe online interactions. The ultimate goal is to create resilient and informed students who can navigate the digital landscape responsibly while understanding their rights and responsibilities.

maddy
Download Presentation

Enhancing E-Safety Policies: Ensuring Fit for Purpose in Educational Settings

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. E-safety Fit for purpose?

  2. Who are the policies for?

  3. Esafety policies – college 1 11 pages 2725 words SMOG level 20.1 What SMOG levels mean 9 –10 = approx. Entry Level 3; 11–12 = approx. Level 1 (eg The Sun) 14 –15 = approx. Level 2. (eg The Daily Express) 17 - The Telegraph and The Guardian: SMOG = Simple Measure of Gobbledygookwww.niace.org.uk/misc/SMOG-calculator/smogcalc.php

  4. Esafety policies – college 2 3+ pages 1363 words SMOG level 20.0 What SMOG levels mean 9 –10 = approx. Entry Level 3; 11–12 = approx. Level 1 (eg The Sun) 14 –15 = approx. Level 2. (eg The Daily Express) 17 - The Telegraph and The Guardian:

  5. Challenge 1 - Go online at first opportunity and measure the SMOG level of your Acceptable Use Policies or equivalent.

  6. How well are learners equipped? I agree or You scored 12 / 30 This score will enable you to access √ Internal resources √ Course related websites X Social networking sites X File sharing sites

  7. Age appropriate resources • There are very few resources that sit between text heavy acceptable use policies and child friendly materials for younger people.

  8. Your e-safety guidance Multimedia Interactivity Text Role play

  9. eSafety contexts Situational- Personal Teaching / learning Residential Work placements

  10. eSafety contexts Situational - Personal – Corporate Deaf – concepts; spelling/grammar; sample scam (note phone checking issue) Blind – password entry/echo, bogus sites Dyslexic – passwords Aspergers – netiquette issues, flaming etc Learning difficulties – passwords, concepts

  11. Disability vulnerabilities • Minority needs - easy for learning provider to overlook • Socialisation vulnerabilities • May be attracted to others with ‘similar disability’. • Dating – scammers create false profile with link to social network site set up to collect personal information from member sign up. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBmW7OlQLdI&feature=player_embedded#!

  12. Fit for purpose • Focused on equipping learners to be safer and more resilient. • Accessible, age appropriate and relevant (eg provides clear mechanism for reporting abuses). • Links responsibility with opportunity. • Flexibility to adapt to different contexts and different learners.

More Related