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School Services
In-School Presentations
Eyes Open Social Media Safety can
create a package specific to the needs of your school,
including components of the below programs.
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Eyes Open Social Media Safety provide interactive facilitated sessions held at the school. The children indicate the apps they are using, how they use them and how their parent’s use of social media involves them. The children’s responses dictate the context and the examples provided. These are true interactive presentations rather than cookie cutter storytelling.
Each session is age appropriate. We are in our 7th year of working with children and have a comprehensive understanding of how different age groups use social media and how it can and does go wrong. We also understand how to empower students to want to get it right. We incorporate scenarios and real case studies.
The ‘customised’ presentation – The team researches publicly available social media content relevant to your school. A video, or number of videos depending on the age of the students involved, are created to demonstrate the ways social media is being used within the school community.
We have a wide variety of presentations, workshops and delivery methods, including:
In-class Children Workshops/Presentations
To educate your students about the possible risks and then walking them through how to take the steps to protect themselves.
Parent Information Presentations
As a follow-on to the in-class program or as a stand-alone address, to engage parents in the school’s social media awareness process, we can present a 1 hour (plus questions) parent information session.
Teacher Professional Development
To ensure consistent messaging, we encourage schools to participate in one of our professional development sessions for their teachers. We have several different delivery methods, to cater for both face-to-face and self-paced learning.
Student Assistance
As a part of a 3-year package, Eyes Open Social Media offer assistance tailored to studnt needs, in the case where there has been an incident or a student is identified as being at risk. This service can include further safety awareness, safer device set up and navigating the privacy and security options on their most used social media accounts.
School Packages
3 Year Packages
Eyes Open Social Media Safety can assist with
building consistence of learning with a 3 year program,
tailored to the needs of your community.
Create a package specific to the needs of your school
including components of the below programs.
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Our packages are designed to fit the school’s budget and give your students consistency of learning with a program that builds on previous learning and is tailored to the issues the students are facing at the time of delivery.
Bronze Subscription
9 Sessions delivered across the school per year.
This package covers education for:
- Year 7 – awareness only
- Year 8 – 3 x privacy & security workshops
- Year 10 – 3 x privacy & security workshops
- Teachers
- Parents
Silver Subscription
12-13 sessions delivered across the school per year.
This package covers education for:
- Year 7 – awareness plus problematic internet use workshops
- Year 8 – 3 x privacy & security workshops
- Year 10 – 3 x privacy & security workshops
- Year 12 – Leaving school program
- Teachers
- Parents
Gold Subscription
16-17 sessions delivered across the school per year.
- Year 7 – awareness plus problematic internet use workshops
- Year 8 – 3 x privacy & security workshops
- Year 9 – problematic internet use
- Year 10 – 3 x privacy & security workshops
- Year 11 – Avoiding Scams program
- Year 12 – Leaving school program
- Teachers
- Parents
All 3 year programs receive awareness sessions for all cohorts in the first year, plus access to advice, guidence, crisis management and one-on-on student care sessions if a student is identified as needing further assistance.
Parent Resources Example:
Problematic Internet Use
Overuse and Addiction
Problematic Internet Use is not just about the amount of time someone spends on screens. It is about
the impact that screen time has on your life,
the changing of priorities and the damage to real life relationships, that are defining characteristics of a problem.
As a parent there is some choices you can make to reduce the chance your child will suffer from screen addiction.
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There are 5 main areas that are affected by overuse or severe problematic use (addiction) to screens. They are a user’s:
- usage (affecting priorities)
- physical health
- social experience
- emotional stability
- behaviour
As a parent or carer of a child who is overusing screens, you may be feeling uncomfortable with their screen use but not really be able to put your finger on why.
We find that usually a parent/carer’s gut feeling is actually correctly telling them that some changes to screen use may be in order.
See attached guide to behaviours that may indicate an issue is arising.
Having clear boundaries around screen use can assist as a preventative measure to avoid overuse becoming an issue and/or as an early intervention strategy if things are getting out of hand.
The key to boundaries that will actually work is to ensure that they are written down for easy reference and that your child understands why they are in place. We also find that involving your child in the process of creating a family agreement helps them to feel empowered to use technology responsibly.
During school time we have worked with your child to educate them about the reasons why each component of a family agreement is necessary.
For your reference, some key elements are:
- A list of things that must be done before SOCIAL screen time is started (this gives them a visual reminder so that you don’t have to keep telling them. On the back of our Screen Time Plan, we provide a checklist that you can laminate and get them to check off before they start social screen time)
- Clear appropriate times for social screen time. (You will notice we have ‘pm” and “pm” in our plan. We also suggest that children turn their hand held devices off 2-3 hours before sleep time. The reason for this is that interactive screen use can trigger a high release of dopamine, which will make it hard for your child to concentrate at school, on other tasks, or to relax enough for quality sleep. If you need your child to have the company of screens to assist with their routine, TV time in the morning or before bed might be a better option as a TV across the room doesn’t give the additional excitement of participation that a hand held screen gives.)
- A social screen time limit. (how long in total can they play for? We suggest a small amount of time that they get for completing their chores of priority list and then they can earn more screen time by practicing building skills or interacting with other people. eg play a musical instrument for 30 minutes, or play a board game with their sibling and they can earn an extra 15 minutes online. This is your chance to encourage activities that help they grow and practice life skills)
- Breaks are important to keep their bodies moving, give them a chance to go to the bathroom or eat dinner and lift their heads – assisting their posture.)
- Keeping their own time. (This is only of the most important parts of a screen plan. In the past screen advice was always that parents use parental controls to restrict their child’s use. It has now been evidenced that “self-regulation” is a critical learning step for young people to avoid addiction later in life. A child setting an alarm and getting off screens without being prompted is good practice and can be rewarded with more time later)
- Parental controls. (It is still super important to apply parental controls to your child’s devices and social media accounts to assist them. We suggest that you create the plan/agreement with your child and then apply parental controls to support them. Eg if they are allowed 1 hour of screen time a day, the parental controls kick in at 1.25 hours. This gives your child the opportunity to be responsible and earn extra time)
Download a copy of our screen time plan template.
Intimate Images
Every child with an internet enabled device must be educated about intimate images in an age appropriate way
The Law
If you or anyone else in a photo containing nude, partially nude or intimate content are under the age of 18 you could be breaking the law if you:
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Information for parents to understand how to recognise risk and how to respond such as:
What could go wrong?
You may be sending a nude to someone you trust but things can go wrong, such as:
- there is a break up or a friendship sours
- they brag & share the photo
- a phone is accessed by someone you didn’t expect
- your photo is shared online
- the person isn’t who you thought they were
- the person doesn’t want the photo
- they are connected to family sharing
Managing unwanted requests & images
If someone hasn’t asked for a photo & don’t want it, they may:
- show it or share it with others (they aren’t allowed to do this as they will be distributing CEM, but by the time the situation is sorted the damage is done)
- report you for sending CEM
If you regret sending an image, you can:
- ask & watch them delete it
- eSafety & police can take action if they share the image without consent
- ask an adult for help making a report
If an intimate image of you is shared online without your consent, you can:
- Untag,yourself, report it to be removed, report the person to the social media site
- Speak to a trusted adult
- Report to eSafety or police. They can have it removed & take action against the person who shared it.
Cyberbullying
Is your child being cyberbullied?
The Law
Section 474.17 of the criminal act is regarding aggravated offences involving private sexual material and using a carriage service to menace, harass or cause offence.
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People can be charged with a criminal act at the age of 10.
What is cyberbullying?
Things that could be considered cyberbullying are:
- repeatedly contacting a person who has asked you to stop
- threatening or making someone feel scared
- hacking or creating fake accounts to bully someone
- defamation (posting things that are untrue about someone)
- encouraging suicide or self harm
How can settings help protect your child from cyberbullying and trolls?
Some ways that cyberbullies and trolls aim to cause fear & harm could be:
- causing embarrassment in front of your child’s peers
- inciting others to participate in their campaign
- making your child feel scared or intimidated
- using your child’s posts to make your child feel foolish
By increasing the privacy & security on your child’s social media accounts you can REDUCE:
- trolls being able to interact or post on your child’s page
- the opportunity for trolls to access your child’s posts and find out information about your child
- trolls knowing how your child is feeling (people who bully are often more nasty when they know their victim is already feeling vulnerable)
- trolls knowing who your child’s friends and family are (they may approach people and encourage them to bully also)
- the chance of trolls gaining access to your child’s account to pretend to be them
If your child is being bullied you can help by:
- Encouraging your child to talk to you and helping them to increase the privacy & security on accounts
- Help them to report the other person to the social media site
- Report to eSafety or the police.
- It is best if your child has told the person once to stop and that they will be reported & then to not engaged in any further interactions from that point.
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