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Childnet: Online Safety: Video Calls
Video calling allows us to speak to our friends and family, and see their faces, which is especially valuable when we are unable to see them in person. It has also allowed lessons, and contact with schools, to continue during the...
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Childnet: Online Safety: Sharenting
Sharenting is when a parent or care-giving uses the internet to share news, images, videos, and information about their child. It mostly takes place on social media and in some cases on blogging sites. This site features questions,...
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Childnet: Online Safety: Social Media
Social media are apps and websites where you can connect and share content with friends. On these services you are often able to share and view a whole range of media such as video, photos, music and chat. Popular social media services...
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Childnet: Online Safety: Screen Time
Screen time is the amount of time we spend using devices and technology. There are some concerns that we are spending too long looking at screens and many devices now provide tools to track our screen time. This site features questions,...
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Childnet: Online Safety: Privacy Settings
Privacy settings (sometimes called privacy controls) are the tools provided as part of an online account to protect the information and content you are sharing. This site features questions, answers, and tips about privacy settings.
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Childnet: Online Safety: Star Films
Four animated learning films to support and reinforce the key messages from the teaching toolkit. Each film contains: A short 2-3 minute animated film covering issues related to each section of the toolkit, a pause function to prompt...
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Childnet: Online Safety: Getting Started
The STAR Toolkit provides practical advice and teaching activities to help educators explore online safety risks with young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) in Key Stages 3 and 4. Download the 'Getting...
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Childnet: Star Send Toolkit
An extensive teaching toolkit to equip, enable and empower educators with the relevant knowledge they need to support young people with special educational needs and disability (SEND). View and download each part of the teaching toolkit.
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Childnet: Online Safety: Medical Misinformation
Misinformation is inaccurate information shared by accident. It can sometimes confuse, mislead, or influence people. COVID-19 is a new virus, which means it is sometimes easy for people to misunderstand information, interpret it...
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Childnet: Online Safety: Location Services
Your location refers to where you are and devices often track this in the background even when you don't have internet or reception. These location-based services are found on most smart devices including phones and use technology to...
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Childnet: Online Safety: Livestreaming
Live-streaming is a way for people to broadcast themselves online. Apps such as Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, Twitch, and YouTube all offer live-streaming services. This site provides a list of questions, answers, and tips about the...
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Childnet: Online Safety: Home Learning
Recently, you may have had to do a lot of your schoolwork or learning at home, using technology during lock-downs or when self-isolating. This can be called home learning, e-learning or remote learning and might refer to work set over...
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Childnet: Online Safety: Gaming
Gaming involves playing 'video games' on a games console (such as a PlayStation 4, XBOX One, or Nintendo Switch) a PC or mobile games on a smartphone or tablet. This site includes a list of questions, answers to the questions, and tips...
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Childnet: Online Safety: A Learning to Read Book
'On the internet' is a learning-to-read book for children aged 4 and above. It has been written for your child to read, with your help when needed. There is no 'right' or 'expected' number of words for your child to read in this book....
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Childnet: Online Safety: R for Respect
This section has been developed to help generate discussions about respect, friendship and online conflict including cyberbullying. Download R for Respect toolkit resources.
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Childnet: Online Safety: A for Action
This section has been developed to help generate discussion about positive actions and strategies young people can take to ensure they thrive online. Download A for Action Toolkit resources.
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Childnet: Online Safety: T for Trust
This section has been developed to help generate discussions about the trustworthiness of content and contact online and help develop critical thinking skills. Download T for Trust Toolkit resources
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Childnet: Online Safety: Privacy and Data
Privacy is the ability to keep certain things to yourself, for them not to be seen by or shared with others. Personal data is information about you collected by the apps and websites you visit (like the things you like and open). This...
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Childnet: Online Safety: Phishing and Scams
Phishing and online scams are ways that people try to trick you into giving up your personal information, login details or money. This site features questions, answers, and tips to be safe from phishing and scams.
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Childnet: Online Safety: Online Reputation
The things online that you have liked, shared and commented on, as well as what others have shared about you, may shape what other people think about you; this is your online reputation. This site features questions, answers, and tips to...
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Childnet: Online Safety: Online Grooming
Online grooming is when someone builds a relationship with a young person online because they want to trick or pressure them into doing something that may hurt or harm them. This site provides questions, answers, and tips about online...
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Childnet: Online Safety: Nudes (Sexting)
Sending nudes, sometimes referred to as 'sexting', means taking or sharing naked, partially dressed or sexually explicit images of yourself or others, using technology. This site provides .questions, answers, and tips about posting...
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Childnet: Online Safety: New Online Accounts
You often need to register or sign up for a new account to use different platforms or sites online. To do this, you will need to enter your personal details and make good use of privacy settings to keep your information safe and secure....
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Childnet: Online Safety: Be Smart Online
A printed version of our SMART rules for primary aged children, containing useful safety websites and advice to help keep you and your friends safe when using the internet and mobile devices. It includes two links to PDF downloads: A3...