Author: Brian Clark

March 1, 2023

04 May 16:00, Cyber Toolkit webinar

The Cyber Toolkit is designed to help teachers find the most appropriate and useful advice, information and resources to support learners.

When we use the internet we either consume, create or communicate. Each of these behaviours has different levels and types of risk. This toolkit will help you to diagnose, understand and then support learners with their digital needs.

Before you start with the toolkit, find out what your learners are using and doing online; and the issues or risks this presents. With this information you can use the toolkit to locate information, resources and professional learning to support you in planning meaningful CRIS learning.

Click this button to go to the Cyber Toolkit

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March 1, 2023

Microsoft Teacher Toolkit – introduction to Microsoft OneDrive and Teams in Glow

Learn the essential skills and knowledge to use Microsoft OneDrive and Teams. These step-by-step training courses are aimed at teachers who are new or lack confidence in using Microsoft 365 in Glow.

The skills and knowledge are based on the Essential Teacher Digital Skills.

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Attendees are REQUIRED to be able to join in with the tutorial activities using their Glow account.

This session will explain how to:

login to Glow and find Teams and OneDrive apps
use OneDrive to create, store and share files
create and join classes on Teams

View the step-by-step video tutorials for each skill on the Essential Teacher Digital Skills page

Book CLPL webinars

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March 1, 2023

Microsoft Teacher Toolkit – introduction to Microsoft OneDrive and Teams in Glow

Learn the essential skills and knowledge to use Microsoft OneDrive and Teams. These step-by-step training courses are aimed at teachers who are new or lack confidence in using Microsoft 365 in Glow.

The skills and knowledge are based on the Essential Teacher Digital Skills.

back to Teacher Digital Skills

Attendees are REQUIRED to be able to join in with the tutorial activities using their Glow account.

This session will explain how to:

login to Glow and find Teams and OneDrive apps
use OneDrive to create, store and share files
create and join classes on Teams

View the step-by-step video tutorials for each skill on the Essential Teacher Digital Skills page

Book CLPL webinars

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February 28, 2023

Google Teacher Toolkit – introduction to Google Drive and Classroom in Glow

Learn the essential skills and knowledge to use Google Drive and Classroom in Glow. These step-by-step training courses are aimed at teachers who are new or lack confidence in using Google Workspace in Glow.

The skills and knowledge are based on the Essential Teacher Digital Skills.

back to Teacher Digital Skills

Attendees are REQUIRED to be able to join in with the tutorial activities using their Glow account.

This session will explain how to:

login to Glow and find Classroom and Drive apps
use Drive to create, store and share files
create and join classes on Classroom

View the step-by-step video tutorials for each skill on the Essential Teacher Digital Skills page

Book CLPL webinars

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February 28, 2023

30 May, This is Digital Learning and Teaching professional learning programme

As educators it is our responsibility to make effective use of digital technology to deliver high quality teaching, engaging learning and effective assessment.

This four-part professional learning programme is designed to enhance educators’ knowledge and skills in order to develop their planning, teaching and learning, and assessment and feedback with digital technology.

The four sessions cover:

preparing for digital in the classroom
creating quality resources for learning
creative approaches to teaching with digital
effective assessment and feedback approaches with digital

Find out more about the programme with this link.

February 27, 2023

Communicate: unwanted contact

Unwelcome friend/follow requests or messages (20%) and unwanted sexual messages (8%) account for 28% of the potential risks encountered by UK internet users aged 13+ (Ofcom, 2022). Understanding how the platform works can help children and young people reduce the likelihood of this potential risk by managing who can and cannot contact them.

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Internet safety risks and considerations

Access

In order to communicate with others online, learners usually need access to:

an internet-enabled device
apps to communicate – this may include the device’s own messaging, calls or video calls (FaceTime) apps, as well as the most common additional messaging apps WhatsApp and Snapchat
someone else to communicate with

When supporting learners with this area, it is important to consider who controls their access to these opportunities and resources:

Is there a risk of this occurring in school?
How is that enabled?
Are there steps that could be taken to reduce the risk of this?

If it is an out-of-school risk:

How can the school support with this?
Is support required for families or learners?
Who can support with this: Community Learning and Development or Police Scotland?

Potential risks

Being more cyber resilient reduces the risk of internet safety issues arising. We all want the internet to be a more welcoming space for children and young people and that is why we promote this positive message of safe, smart and kind.

Topics to explore with learners might include are:

the people they communicate with – groups or individually
the platforms they communicate on – impact of device or context
types of content they might share – risk of inappropriate content
the risks of sharing created content
the law about online communications – Communications Act 2003
the potential risks, and associated harms, the same for everyone – why are they different, and why does this matter?

Cyber resilience guidance

Devices

The first potential vulnerability when communicating online is the device not being securely setup.

Check with learners that they have taken these steps to reduce the risk of someone accessing and communicating with their device without permission:

a screenlock that requires a passcode or biometric (face or fingerprint) to log in to stop unauthorised access (hacking)
apple devices have a content filter, called communication safety in Messages, in their ‘screen time’ settings that blocks potentially nude content from children’s phones

Accounts

Another potential vulnerability when communicating online is that accounts on the device or online platform not being secure enough and allowing others to use their device or contact them.

Check with learners that they have taken these steps on their apps to reduce the risk unwanted contact:

they use device or platform security features, inlcuding password, biometrics or 2FA to ensure only they can access it
they know how to use the settings and security features to set the platform up to only share information they are willing to share – this can reduce their ‘visibility’ and potentially reduce the chances of unwanted contact
they can use the settings and security settings to control who is able to contact them, see/reply to their posts or direct message them on the platform

Whatsapp
Safety and security features

How to block and report contacts

How to change group privacy settings

How to change your privacy settings

Snapchat

How To Report A Snap

Snapchat Reporting Quick Guide

Reporting on Snapchat – Safety Snapshot video

How do I change my privacy settings on Snapchat?

How to Remove a Friend

FaceTime

Block unwanted callers in FaceTime on iPhone

Report and support

When using devices or online platforms to create communicate, learners should understand that online platforms and services, including apps, carry greater risk of being shared without permission as the messages and content on these is almost always stored on their server, which is the company’s computer, and not the child or young person’s device.

Should created content ever be shared with, or without, permission then learners should have the knowledge, skills and support to report and recover from the potential risks associated with this:

ANY communication that contains content that depicts child sexual abuse MUST be reported to the police or CEOP

Whatsapp
How to block and report contacts

Snapchat

How To Report A Snap
Snapchat Reporting Quick Guide

Reporting on Snapchat – Safety Snapshot video

FaceTime

Block unwanted callers in FaceTime on iPhone

Adults can report concerns about unwanted contact to NSPCC

Children and young people can report concerns about unwanted contact to Childline