E-Safety

= Statement and Definition: =

http://www.oakfield.essex.sch.uk/img/BeeSafe.jpg = Examples for how to raise teachers and students awareness: =
 * As technology becomes an essential part of our daily lives and vital tool of education, our need for protection and safe environment have increasingly become important to ensure that our students can get the most out of technology without being exposed to any risk. E-safety means the safe use of technology for both adults and children i.e it is not confined to young age. Both children and vulnerable adults can be exposed to various kinds of risks and abuse via miuse or misunderstanding of technology like identity theft and [|cyber bullying]. So providing safe environment for all ages is the responibility of both parents and schools. As far as we are concerned, it is the parents and teachers role to protect children and students against cyberbullying.**
 * First, students and teachers can be provided with training courses that clarifies the meaning of cyberbullying and its various kinds, and** **[|several scenarios] that can be discussed by teachers or students in training workshops.** **Also leaflets such as [|YoungPeople_ICT-260509.pdf]and handouts that include e-safety rules. Another suggestion to raise students awareness is to allow a specialist explain to students the precautions that should be taken in case of abuse and plan lessons to orient safe internet use such as the** Arabic orientation materials used by [|E-Safety working group of the Ministry of Communications.]


 * Students as well as teachers and parents need to be enlightened about e- safety and the potential hazards of technology misuse. We have held a workshop on e-safety with our colleagues using** [|E- safety.ppt] ( assignment 3). Enlightened **with the importance of e-safety issue, s****chool administration can then** **provide training courses by specialists for all teachers of primary, middle and secondary schools to help them deal with the risks that students might get exposed to while using computers and apply the needed procedures in case some students encounter any kind of abuse.**

= Resources: =

https://www.policy.e-safety.org.uk/default.cfm?pid=10&pcid=10 : ** This article provides an overview of e-safety. It also emphasizes the role of schools in raising students awareness and the rules that students should follow when using any kind of technology **

http://www.bungaymiddleschool.com/e-safety.pdf : **This resource is an e-safety policy made by a school, it states the minor offences to the policy and their consequences, also it mentions that there major offences that requires outside agencies intervention like the police .**