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Caroline’s blog<br />

My parents help me stay safe on-line. Now I can do more things independently<br />

I have to think about safety. I went to a communication matters day about that<br />

Teaching Assistant: what did you learn in IT in year 7<br />

Ben: (starts to construct something on talker and then turns to look at TA)<br />

Teaching Assistant: you know when we did about internet safety<br />

Ben: ‘yes’ (nods head)<br />

Teaching Assistant: and you had to do a booklet and posters about how to stay<br />

safe online, yeah<br />

Ben: ‘yes’ (nods head)<br />

Teaching Assistant: yeah, so you did get taught it in school<br />

Amanda: your sister uses Facebook, and um so how did you learn about the<br />

privacy settings and safety and things like that. Did your sister teach you how<br />

to set up your Facebook account<br />

Keith: yeah<br />

Amanda: Do you use Twitter?<br />

Mary: No, I don’t want to.<br />

Amanda: No, why?<br />

Mary: ‘cos… rude people<br />

Amanda: Rude people, ah okay. Yup, right, so do you find rude people on<br />

Facebook?<br />

Mary: ‘no’ (shaking head)<br />

Amanda: No, but Twitter yeah. So you don’t like Twitter because of rude<br />

people<br />

Mary: yeah<br />

Amanda: was somebody rude to you on<br />

Mary: no<br />

Amanda: no but you heard, did somebody tell you that there were rude people<br />

on Twitter?<br />

Mary: yeah<br />

Amanda: ah who told you that? Your, was it your mum?<br />

Mary: Lucy<br />

Amanda: ah Lucy, ah I see so your sister said it’s not very nice. Does your<br />

sister use Twitter<br />

Mary: no<br />

Amanda: No, so she doesn’t like it either?<br />

Mary: no<br />

Amanda: did she try it?<br />

Mary: no<br />

Amanda: no, but she said there’s rude people on it. Ah, that’s sensible, you<br />

don’t want to be in contact with rude people do you?<br />

Mary: no<br />

Amanda: Oh, what about online safety and things like that, did you have to<br />

learn about that from somebody else or did you teach yourself or is it not<br />

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