LODDON MALLEE - Cyber Safe Kids

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When asked if they knew how to get around any rules or internet blocks at home and how frequently they did this, 124 (44.3%) grade 4-6, 74 (59.2%) year 7-10, and 8 (66.7%) year 11 students reported that they knew how to get around some or all of the rules or blocks to their internet use. Further, 36 (12.9%) grade 4-6, 29 (23.2%) year 7-10, and 3 (25%) year 11 students reported that they got around these blocks either every time or most times they are on the internet. MONITORING AND CONTROL OF INTERNET USE AT SCHOOL Two hundred and eighty three (99.7%) grade 4-6, 125 (96.9%) year 7-10, and 11 (100%) year 11 students reported that they had at least one rule about internet use at school. The most common rule for each student group was the school has internet policy/rules and some sites are blocked for grade 4-6, some sites are blocked for year 7-10, and school has internet policy/rules for year 11 students. When students were asked if they knew how to get around any rules or internet blocks at school and how frequently they did this, 92 (32.5%) grade 4-6, 75 (58.9%) year 7-10, and 4 (33.3%) year 11 students reported being able to get around some or all of the rules or blocks. Further, 24 (8.5%) grade 4-6, 21 (16.5%) year 7-10, and 2 (16.7%) year 11 students reported that they got around these rules or blocks either every time or most times they were on the internet. UNWANTED EXPOSURE TO SOMETHING HORRIBLE, WORRYING OR SCARY Sixty seven (23.7%) grade 4-6, 29 (22.9%) year 7-10, and 6 (50%) year 11 students reported that they had found something horrible, worrying or scary on the internet and that this occurred in the last week or month for 20 (7.1%) grade 4-6, 13 (10.2%) year 7-10, and 3 (25%) year 11 students. Students were asked an open ended question as to what the horrible, worrying or scary thing was and answers fell into the following categories from most frequent to least: scary images/movies or games (i.e. www.scarymaze.com), pornographic photos and videos, sexual harassment or solicitation, images/videos of animal cruelty, being threatened or bullied, grotesque images (i.e. www.rotten.com or physical insult/injury) and being offered drugs. Most often this exposure came from the following sources: pop-up screen from website (13.5%), searching for something else (12.7%), sent/recommended by someone I knew (11.1%), and friend/someone they know showed it to them (7.9%). This exposure made 26 (39.4%) grade 4-6, 6 (20.7%) year 7-10, and no year 11 students feel pretty or very upset. In terms of reporting this exposure, 57 (87.7%) grade 4-6, 19 (65.5%) year 7-10, and 4 (100%) year 11 students reported the exposure to someone, with the most common person being a parent for grade 4-6, and a friend for year 7-11 students. 24 LMCP Bendigo Region Report
ACCESSING INAPPROPRIATE WEBSITES Fifty six (19.7%) grade 4-6, 50 (38.8%) year 7-10, and 11 (100%) year 11 students reported that they had gone to a website that they are not allowed to visit or might get in trouble for visiting. Access to these websites occurred in the last week or month for 10 (17.8%) grade 4-6, 28 (56%) year 7-10, and 5 (45.4%) year 11 students. For most of these students the website was accessed at home (76%), school (22%), a friend‟s house (10%), or other (4%). Thirty five (12.3%) grade 4-6, 42 (32.6%) year 7-10, and 8 (61.5%) year 11 students reported that they had gone to an adults only (18+ years) website and that this occurred in the last week or month for 10 (3.5%) grade 4-6, 24 (18.8%) year 7-10, and 5 (41.7%) year 11 students. For most of these students the website was viewed at home (70.7%), school (14.6%), a friend‟s house (12.2%), or other (2.4%). BUYING ONLINE Eighty three (29.5%) grade 4-6, 54 (42.2%) year 7-10, and 6 (60%) year 11 students reported that they have bought something online or paid to join a game/club or go up another level on a game. The payment was made with their parents‟ account (75.4%), their own bank account (18.5%), sister/brother‟s account (2.3%), or friend‟s parent‟s account (3.9%). When asked if their parents knew about this 76 (97.4%) grade 4-6, 47 (94%) year 7-10, and 7 (87.5%) year 11 students reported that they did. Whilst in the majority of circumstances parents know about their children‟s online purchases, these data suggest that the concept of online purchasing (both cyber and material goods) is one that young people are familiar with. ONLINE FRIENDS One hundred and twenty nine (45.6%) grade 4-6, 82 (63.6%) year 7-10, and 8 (72.7%) year 11 students reported that they have met new people online that they do not know in real life. The most common means of meeting friends online for grade 4 to year 8 students was playing games, and for year 9-11 students it was through MySpace/facebook. Students communicated with their new online friends via social networking (43.8%), MSN/IM (45.2%), email (33.8%), or texting (26%). Students in year 7-11 were asked how many of their online friends they knew in real life, as shown in Table 4. 25 LMCP Bendigo Region Report
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Page 4 and 5: EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Cybersafe Su
Page 6 and 7: Many young people reported being ex
Page 8 and 9: Messages from students regarding th
Page 10 and 11: INTRODUCTION The internet and other
Page 12 and 13: For both parents and teachers, a co
Page 14 and 15: RESULTS RESPONSE RATES STUDENT RESP
Page 16 and 17: STUDENT SURVEY DEMOGRAPHICS The gen
Page 18 and 19: Figure 3. Activities on the interne
Page 20 and 21: Figure 6. Percentage of year 9-10 s
Page 22 and 23: Figure 8. Percentage of grade 4-6 s
Page 26 and 27: Table 4. What best describes your o
Page 28 and 29: INDICATORS OF COMPULSIVE USE Possib
Page 30 and 31: ONLINE HARASSMENT Students were ask
Page 32 and 33: To understand the online harassment
Page 34 and 35: Table 12. Frequency of types of onl
Page 36 and 37: UNDERSTANDING LAWS REGARDING THE IN
Page 38 and 39: On a positive note some students re
Page 40 and 41: Parents were asked to answer the fo
Page 42 and 43: Figure 17. Proportion of parents wh
Page 44 and 45: PARENTS‟ CONCERNS AND OPINIONS AB
Page 46 and 47: INTERVENTIONS TO KEEP YOUNG PEOPLE
Page 48 and 49: PARENTS‟ UNDERSTANDING OF LEGAL A
Page 50 and 51: WHAT DO YOU THINK ADULTS NEED TO KN
Page 52 and 53: ATTITUDES TO INFORMATION AND CONNEC
Page 54 and 55: (90%) and 85.7% reported hate advoc
Page 56 and 57: Figure 26. Percentage of teachers w
Page 58 and 59: SOCIAL NETWORKING The majority of h
Page 60 and 61: need for internet use rules to enco
Page 62 and 63: is brought to bear on and taught ex
Page 64 and 65: managing the impact of their comput
Page 66 and 67: surveyed from grade 4 to year 9. Th
Page 68 and 69: ONLINE SAFETY INTERVENTIONS AND MET
Page 70 and 71: SUMMARY In summary, the Cybersafe S
Page 72 and 73: APPENDICES APPENDIX 1 Table 17. Con
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APPENDIX 2 Table 18. All websites l
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