Safer Internet Day

The UK Safer Centre was launched at 1st January 2011 and comprises a partnership of three leading internet safety organisations; Childnet International, the South West Grid for Learning (SWGfL) and the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF).

 

The UK Safer Internet Centre is committed to working in partnership with all stakeholders in the UK in making the internet a great and safe place for children and young people and in supporting those who work with them in doing so.

 

You can read more about the UK Safer Internet Centre at www.saferinternet.org.uk, and contact the centre at enquiries@saferinternet.org.uk with any enquiry or to share what you are doing for SID 2012.

 

 

The UK Safer Internet Centre will be using SID 2012 to create a positive call to action for families to unite and share internet know-how to help stay safe.  In particular the message for parents, carers and grandparents is to use Safer Internet Day as an opportunity to have a conversation about staying safe online with your young people, sharing your knowledge and also asking them for their advice.  

 

 

The UK Safer Internet Centre will be working with schools throughout the UK in the run up to SID to encourage young people to use the opportunity of the day to help someone else stay safe.  Schools packs have been designed to help teachers to think about how to address this topic in the classroom.  There will be a Primary resource pack containing a poster to promote the theme, a primary assembly PowerPoint and accompanying script, 5 quick classroom activities and an in depth lesson plan for a class community project. This has been designed to be an open-ended project that can take as little / as long as is required. The aim is to utilise the technological skills of the class and to share these with a chosen audience within the local area to create a communal learning experience. Similarly, for the secondary audience, there will be a poster to promote the theme, 5 quick classroom activities, an assembly PowerPoint and a supporting script and an in depth lesson plan for a debate. The aim of the debate lesson plan is to prepare pupils to stage a debate about the internet, the young people will put themselves in the shoes of others and consider other people’s points of view. This lesson plans allows the young people to see the issues that other generations may have regarding internet safety. Peers, parents and older generations can then be invited to watch the debate.   This free content will all be available to download from the UK Safer Internet Site (www.saferinternet.org.uk) by the end of November 2011

 

 

The UK Safer Internet Centre will be hosting a multi-generational and multi-stakeholder debate in Parliament on the afternoon of 7th February 2011.  This debate will bring together a panel including young people, teens, parents, carers and grandparents alongside Parliamentarians, the Internet Industry and others to think about what advice each of the different audiences wants to be receiving about staying safe online, and who they think should be delivering that advice.

 

 

For the second year running, the UK Safer Internet Centre will be presenting Safer Internet Day Live; a marathon radio programme on Safer Internet Day from 9am to 9pm (GMT) and broadcasting over the Internet and around the world. A fully interactive experience, listeners will be encouraged to txt, email, Skype, IM and even phone in with questions to challenge the panel of experts from around the world.

 

Following the success Safer Internet Day Live 2011, the schedule will have programmes dedicated to different audiences, focusing on a range of different age groups as well as professionals (teachers) and parents. Each programme will feature a collection of comments and interviews with key experts from around the world offering hints, tips and suggestions to help make the internet a fun and safe place for you, your friends, family and colleagues, with internet Safety news featured on the hour, every hour.

 

More information can be found at www.saferinternet.org.uk, and those wanting to just tune in on the day can do so at www.saferinternetdaylive.com.