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Safer Internet Day 2012

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This Tuesday may well be just another day, but it is a day that we feel important to acknowledge…

Safer Internet Day is organised by Insafe each year in February to promote safer and more responsible use of online technology and mobile phones, especially amongst children and young people across the world.

This year, Safer Internet Day (SID) will take place on Tuesday 7 February 2012 and will be centred around the theme Connecting generations and educating each other, with the slogan: “Discover the digital world together… safely!”

About Connecting Generations

This topic looks at the reach of the online world across all generations and cultures and encourages families to work together to stay safe online. Whether you are 5, 40 or 75 years old, whether you use the internet once a month or several times a day – each person has something different to bring to the table that can help shape our online experiences and our understanding of online competences and safety. We all have a role to play in ensuring that every child is safe online.

Today our offline and online worlds are strongly connected, from families communicating via webcam with relatives and friends abroad to children doing their homework online. The online world is a unique arena where people of all ages can learn together and from each other, especially regarding online safety. Tech savvy youngsters can teach their elders how to use new technologies, while grandparents can draw on their life experiences to advise younger generations on how to stay safe online, as they discover the digital world together.

How to take part?

Visit saferinternetday.org for more information and to download SID promotional materials and resources.

Highland

Highland School also wins National Internet Safety Competition

Two pupils from Mount Pleasant Primary School, Abbie and Rebecca won first prize in a National Competition for Internet Safety Resources.  As part of a Scottish Government action plan to improve internet safety a competition was launched in conjunction with Young Scot and Learning and Teaching  Scotland.

Abbie and Rebecca planned, designed and made a game which would be played by primary age children.  Their game was designed to promote internet safety and was a cross between Snakes and Ladders and Monopoly.  Pupils would throw a dice and move round the board which was laid out like Snakes and Ladders.  If they landed on a “Bad space” they would pick up an Exclamation Mark card which would give a bad example of internet safety, eg “You have given out your password to your friend, move back 2 spaces”.  The Question Mark cards were good examples of internet safety eg “You have changed your password, move forward 2 spaces”.

They were overall winners on the Primary Age Group and won a Digital Flip HD video camera for the school.  Mount Pleasant School was so delighted with their new camera that they bought the girls a pink USB stick for their transition to High School.  Their game will be manufactured and included in a resource pack which will be distributed to schools and will be able to be viewed on the website www.scotland.gov.uk/InternetSafety

They were both delighted and hope that their game will help 7-11 year olds understand how to keep safe online.