Social Media

Tess Evans, Lufton College

Lisa Featherstone, JISC Techdis

Against

• Not real friends

• Time wasting

• Personal Security

• Irrelevant nonsense

For

• Personal

• Connecting with friends and family

• Interactive and engaging

• Collaborative

• Sense of community

Social Media

• Facebook

• Twitter

• Blogs and Wikis

• Online communities (Ravelry)

• Online games (WoW)

• Audioboo

E-safety

• E-Safety is about safe and responsible practice with technology and the sensible management of risks presented by a digital world. 

Who’s job is it?

• Is the responsibility of the whole organisation

• Is not just a technology problem

• Should be thought of like any other safeguarding area

Terms

• Bullying

• Flaming

• Grooming

• Trolling

• Phishing*

Table Activity

• Discuss the above issues and ways of combatting them for your learners?

Afternoon Workshop

• Recap on the morning’s session and feedback the comments

• Assign each table with two questions to answer. Please spend at least 10 minutes on each.

• Do supplementary question if time.

• Feedback

Code of Practice for Social Care workers

• As a social care worker, you must promote the independence of service users while protecting them as far as possible from harm

Code of practice for social care workers – point 3

Code of Practice for Social Care workers

• As a social care worker, you must respect the rights of service users while seeking to ensure that their behaviour does not harm themselves or other people.

Code of practice for social care workers – point 4

Questions

1. What advice should you give your learners about how real friends behave online?

2. How can you get over the staying safe message to your learners in a sensible, constructive and non frightening way

Questions

3. How can you support your staff to help learners access networks of friends

4. What e-safety messages should your staff be incorporating into each session plan?

Supplementary

5. What advice would you give a young person who wants to go and meet someone in real life when they have only met them on facebook?

Thank You

• Tess Evans, Lufton College

• Lisa Featherstone, JISC TechDis(lisa@techdis.ac.uk)