The importance of cybersafety
Most of parents think that browsing internet is
safety, and their children are in safe side and do not face problems and harassment from
others online. But in fact, there are a lot of children who exposed a lot
of harassment. Every day the ways that those people use it are increasing. The
risks that face the kids are:
·
Identity Thieves, ID
theft is what happens when someone uses another person’s private identifying
information – like usernames, passwords, bank accounts, credit card numbers,
and so on
·
Hackers, Hacking
is when someone manipulates the features of a system in order to do something
different than what the original inventor of the system intended. Originally,
hacking was supposed to be a fun and educational practice.
·
Phishes, Phishing is when con artists use
email or fraudulent websites to get people’s private information – like
passwords, usernames, bank accounts, credit card numbers, and so on.
·
Cyber Bullies, Cyber bullying is when one kid is
threatened, harassed, persecuted or humiliated by another kid using technology
like the internet or cell phones.
All the above risks are reason of why the cyber safety
is importance and parents and teachers must know about it to protect kids
anytime and anywhere.
Ways to ensure internet safety (audio):
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In the tech2000, we are done
discussion on how to protect the children from the cyber bullying by using
WhatsApp tools. The instructor divides us into groups, the numbers of students
in each group were 6 students and the instructor was the seventh. Each group
has a leader who enters us to the group. Our instructor gives us articles to
read it and then start discussion with group members. This activity takes one
week. In fact, this was new experience that uses WhatsApp tools to learn new
topics and discuss about it among my classmates. I learn new information to how
protect children from the cyber bullying and keep them in safe side. Also, we
were happy to discuss and participate in the WhatsApp group. But our instructor
does not participate with us, so, the discussion was active in time and
inactive in other. It is important that teacher participate with students to
motivate them to continue the discussion and to guide them in each steps until
it finished. Also, they should give students feedback in what they post in the
discussion such as information, images, and videos.
From this activity I learn:
· The strategies that cyber bullying uses it to hurt the children?
These strategies are:
1. Send
e-mail that threats them.
2. Send
links that steal their personal information.
3. Publish
their personal information to the others.
4. Encourage
them to open bad websites.
· The techniques that should parents\teachers applying to protect
children which are:
1.
Using programs to controls the website that children
can browse it such as (Cyber angel) URL= http://www.guardianangels.org/cyberangels.php)
2. Inform the children and students
about the dangers they may faced in the internet.
3.Inform them to tell
anything\problems they faced to their parents\teachers to know how to deal with
the problems.
Usually
I think about how I will controls and manage my classes in future, especially,
I will teach in labs and it is huge. In addition, each student has computer and
the age of students around from 7-16 years. All this factors make the control
of the class difficult. But, from this subject I learn more about how to keep
students in safe side and make them motivate in the class. As I tell to my
friend in the group discussion, I will use program to manage the students'
computers and I will inform them about the dangers the may faced in the internet.
Doing formative workshops for parents and teachers are very necessary to tell
them about it to play big role in protects the kids in schools and homes. Finally,
before to learn students about programs and other aspect in IT is important to
teach them about cyber safety. So, the ministry of education should include this
topic into IT curriculum.
"Safe Internet browsing for Kids"
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