“Munch, Poke, Ping!”

Stephen Carrick-Davies

Understanding the language of safety and responsibility

Thursday 4th July 2013University of Warwick,

Freedom, Safety and Security Session - Keynote

“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head.

If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.”

Nelson Mandela

INTRODUCTION - my current Facebook status

"The web is more a social creation than a technical one. I designed it for social effect - to help people work together - and not as a technical toy….

The ultimate goal of the web is to support and improve our web like existence in the world......

Tim Berners-Lee ‘Weaving the Web’ 1999

We have to ensure that the society we build with the web is the sort we intend.”

“You can’t have 100% security and then have 100% privacy and zero inconveniences…. we are going to have to make some choices as a society.”

President Obama

Governments are leaving digital footprints too !

This language of Freedom, Safety, and Security is Global

http://www.yodaspeak.co.uk/index.php

This language is constantly changing

What I want to look at with you todayPart I The changing online safety landscape & languageLessons from the Munch Poke Ping projectSpecific challenges for vulnerable young peopleThe dangers and opportunities of adults leaving children to it !

Part II Breaking down the “silo-ization” of E-Safety Move to citizenship and empowering youth Provision, Prevention, Protection & now ParticipationThe opportunity for IGGY students to lead in this area

BREAK BREAK BREAK

IDENTITY Impersonation

“Fraping”

RELATIONSHIPSTrust

“Sexting”

CONFLICTAnger

“Game rage”

COPING Snitching

“I’m there

for you”

Play film

“I have over 120 people on my BBM but I deleted like 30 on Saturday cause I was angry and they pissed me off so I just deleted them. Since I’ve had my BlackBerry only 2 people have deleted me.”

Student in this film

What is this world like?real

Film at http://www.carrick-davies.com/mpp/relationships

UPLOADED

(captured) MUNCHED

FORWARDED COMMENTED ON

COPIED

STORED

MORPHED/ CHANGED

LIE DORMANT

AMPLIFIED

RE- BROADCAST

An incubator ?What terms do we use to explain this space ?

An incubator ?

“An incubator, a place where communication is captured, aggregated, added to, morphed, changed and re-hatched as a new broadcast or ping. Those with the skill and confidence to narrate their lives online, manage their reputation, and build up resilience, may well be able to survive and thrive. Those who have few supportive adults, low levels of literacy and are unsupervised and vulnerable are far less confident and hence more at risk.” Stephen Carrick-Davies The Guardian newspaper July 2011

Language changes … duh !

Children will always differentiate themselves from adults and

making up new words to communicate privately is part of

this. However, without adult understanding of new words and

applications they can be at greater risks.

A word about BBM

SOCIAL MEDIA

MOBILES

Games • Be careful with your BBM PIN • Be careful of ‘Screen Munching’ • Use the tools – like delete contact

and block future requests.• Make sure your blackberry has a

password

See www.carrick-davies.com for film

Lack of supportive

adults in their lives

More unsupervised time, fewer

structures and boundaries

Fluid learning environment and gaps in education

and induction

Low self-confidence.

Identity seen to be part of ‘outsiders’

Influences of alcohol, drugs and gang culture. Risk takers and at risk

Experience abusive relationships or environments

including anger

MUNCH

POKE PING!

Q: What can make many young people vulnerable online ? A: Lots of things including:

Where are vulnerable learners learning ?

PRU STUDENTS MAY:

Have emerging personality disorders, severe anxiety and depression as well as other mental health and/or medical needs.

Be pregnant school-age mothers. Be school refusers, phobics or be young carers Have statements of special educational need whose placements are not

yet agreed, or pupils awaiting assessment. Asylum seekers and refugees who have no school place Children who, because of entering public care or moving placement,

require a change of school place and are unable to access a school place

PRUs (or Short Stay Schools) are DfE registered educational establishments managed by local authorities and subject to inspections by Ofsted. They teach students excluded from school on a permanent or fixed-term basis.

Approx 421 PRUS *Average 50 students = 20,000 students

From:

Classifying the risks to children online

CONTENT

CONTACT

CONDUCT

Commercial Aggressive Sexual Values

Adverts Spam Sponsorship Personal info

Violent and hateful content

Pornographic unwelcome sexual content

Bias Racist Misleading info or advice

Tracking Harvesting Personal info

Being bullied harassed or stalked

Meeting strangersBeing groomed

Self harm Unwelcome persuasions

Illegal downloading Hacking Gambling Financial scams Terrorism

Bullying or harassing another

Creating and uploading inappropriate material

Providing misleading info/advice

Original 3 Cs Classification by ‘EU Kids’ online project

Child as Recipient

Child as Participant

Child as Actor

Contact www.ceop.gov.uk if you have concerns about inappropriate communication from an adult to a minor.

CONTENT Child as Recipient

CONTACT Child as Participant

CONDUCT Child as Actor

Commercial Aggressive Sexual Values

Pornographic unwelcome sexual content

Meeting strangersBeing groomed

Creating and uploading inappropriate material

Online grooming is a criminal offence

“One-third of those who sexually abuse children are just children themselves.”BBC Newsnight programme March 2010

“Sexting” = teens sharing nude photos via mobiles and web. The practice can have serious legal and psychological consequences

“So take a dirty picture for me,Take a dirty picture Just take a dirty picture for me Take a dirty picture”

From Taio Cruz song

No 6 in the UK charts April 2010.

How the ‘migration’ of harm online to offline can affect vulnerable YP

CONTENT

CONTACT

CONDUCT

Commercial Aggressive Sexual Values

Child as Recipient

Child as Participant

Child as Actor

CRIMINAL

BEING IN THE WRONG PLACE AT THE WRONG TIME & “BAD LUCK”

OF THE 1,984 PEOPLE CHARGED AFTER RIOTS:

53% were under 20 years old

42% received free school meals

(16% nat. average)

66% of them had some special education needs (21% of all pupils)

Figures from the Ministry of Justice carried out by the Howard League for

Penal Reform (published in Guardian 26.11.11)

Original 3 Cs Classification by ‘EU Kids’ online project

ASSOCIATION WITH

SOMEONE

COMPLICIT IN A JOINT

ENTERPRISE

“You played no part but

presence there encouraged

others ”

FAIL TO INTERVENE

FAILURE TO WALK AWAY !

INCLUDES ONLINE EVIDENCE OF ASSOCIATION & ENCOURAGEMENT

JOINT ENTERPRISE: Legislation that finds people guilty of a violent crime if they are judged to

have lent encouragement to the main perpetrator.

“They planned the attack on social media the night before, the court was told, sending messages to each other on Facebook and via BlackBerry Messenger.”

Offline vulnerability

10 WAYS IN WHICH THE INTERNET CAN AMPLIFY OFFLINE VULNERABILITY

ONLINE VULNERABILITY

Allows for unmediated contact

Social location embedded

Excludes some from the ‘norm’ Eg FB Timeline & vanity tools

Facilitates complex “gifting”& grooming by peers

Introduces new services (often taken up by VYP) QR misuse ?

Screen Munch !

Can subtly be used to ‘nudge’ yp into criminality Eg financial fraud

Extend negative reputation online

Safety tools still require a high degree of Language & Literacy

24/7 nature can come at time of lowest resilience

Doesn’t account for special needs & learning difficulties

Equipping children to be safe and secure online without addressing issues such as Empathy acquisition, Resilience and Leadership is lazy practice and can be counter productive !

EMPATHY, RESILIENCE

The dangers and opportunities of adults leaving children to it !

AND LEADERSHIP

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”

Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Empathy is the ability to put ourselves in another’s place and to understand their experience.

We are deeply present to their thoughts and feelings with such compassionate accuracy that they can hear their own thoughts more clearly.

Empathy connect us with our common humanity. It protects us from prejudice, blame, and judgment – those things that divide us from each other. It moves us to seek justice for every person. Even those with whom we disagree.”

With empathy, we reflect on how our actions affect others.

Empathy inspires us to be giving and selfless. Empathy connects our hearts.

Source www.boundlessconnections.org/weeklyvirtuesblog/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Empathy.jpg

“Empathy is the ability to put ourselves in another’s place and to understand their experience.

We are deeply present to their thoughts and feelings with such compassionate accuracy that they can hear their own thoughts more clearly.

Empathy connect us with our common humanity. It protects us from prejudice, blame, and judgment – those things that divide us from each other. It moves us to seek justice for every person. Even those with whom we disagree.”

With empathy, we reflect on how our actions affect others.

Empathy inspires us to be giving and selfless. Empathy connects our hearts.

Source www.boundlessconnections.org/weeklyvirtuesblog/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Empathy.jpg

“You better brace yourself for a whole lot of ugly coming to you from a never ending parade of stupid”

Motormouth Maybelle from Hairspray

“Casual Cruelty ”Lady Gaga has established her Born This Way Foundation to empower young people to resist the urge to engage in casual cruelty in the digital world.

“MASH UP” OF LANGUAGE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QsWQtDHhBg&sns=tw

2 mins tweet break ! #stephencarrickD

#Esafety #antibullying #onlinesafety #mpp

BREAK BREAK BREAK

Part II How E-safety needs to change

E-safety cannot be taught in isolation from the whole curriculum as a tick box done once a year for Ofsted!

Why ?

In the context of an inspection, e-safety may be described as the school’s ability:

to protect and educate pupils and staff in their use of technology to have the appropriate mechanisms to intervene and support any incident where appropriate.

SCHOOLS

Risk

Reputation

The 3 Rs of digital literacy

Responsibility

Our safety, conduct & risky behaviours

Our privacy, security settings and our peer group

Our leadership, ethical code and resilience

SOCIAL MEDIA

MOBILES

GamesCITIZENSHIP

CIVIC ENGAGEMENT

UNDERSTANDING HARM

EMOTIONAL LITERACY

BELONGING

COPING

EMPATHY

LEADERSHIP

RELATIONSHIPS

EXPLORING

RESILIENCE

TOOLS

ETIQUETTE

Everyone

Because it’s social stupid !

E-Safety language has to stop going on about strangers “out there” And focus on ego-behaviour “in there”!

People don’t crave anonymity they crave connection and want to be known!

It’s now personal, driven by friendship and people’s shared interests.

# E-Safety should be re-badged “Life-safety”

Because we live in a post PC world

The “Internet of things” is upon us

Because it’s not all about fear and panic

“The problem of Juvinoia” by David Finkelhorn Crimes against Children Research Centre (University of New Hampshire)

# E-Safety can’t be based on fear !

“Can you scare the hell out of them!”

Because the way we view children’s rights has changed (4 Ps)

PROVISION PREVENTION

PROTECTION

PARTICIPA

TION

PROVISION PREVENTION

PROTECTION

PARTICIPA

TION

# E-Safety programmes are effective when they empower and give users opportunities to participate, share in and ‘own’ the responsibility

“Eighteen months ago I would never have said to a school that their firewalls are irrelevant. Now they are. There is no purpose in any school having any blocks or filters because kids are coming into school with cellphones that have Internet access. More and more the real safety issue has to be about how we treat each other.” Rosalind Wiseman, Queen Bees & Wannabes

Because blocking has important unintended consequences.

# Where E-Safety policies over focus on restricting and blocking you simply create an ‘arms-race’ on who can keep up and who can break through

You can’t teach people how to swim by blocking access to a swimming pool

Shared Responsibility

Managed Systems

Review & updateFamily outreach

View of Pupils

Assemblies, tutorial time, personal, social, health and education lessons, and an age-appropriate curriculum for e-safety

Pupils were more vulnerable overall when schools used locked down systems because they were not given enough opportunities to learn how to assess and manage risk for themselves.

In the outstanding schools, senior leaders, governors, staff and families worked together to develop a clear strategy for e-safety. Policies were reviewed regularly in the light of technological developments.

The outstanding schools recognised that, relationships with families, needed to keep developing to support e-safety at home.

Schools need to make good use of the views of pupils and their parents to develop their e-safety provision.

WHAT DOES

GOOD

E-SAFETY LOOK LIKE?

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

Nelson Mandela

THANK YOU FOR THE PRIVILEDGE OF BEING ABLE TO SHARE MY WORK AND VIEWS AT YOUR CONFERENCE

stephen@carrick-davies.com

@StephenCarrickDMUNC

HPOKE PING!

Full report and films at www.carrick-davies.com/mpp