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Offense and/or Defense: which option to online safety?
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This is what I want to start with a discussion with my fellow participants in Region III.
I would like to start with this: there’s no quick way towards an easy refuge against online attacks, but there are several ways at our disposal to protect our children, love ones, and learners, as parents, an ALS teacher or implementer, on cyberbullying and other forms of online attacks.
At this time of the pandemic, we have our gadgets (cellphones, tablets, and laptops, and computers) with the internet as our common companions in all and daily endeavors from sunup to sundown. We have social media, different favorite sites, online games, and even those seemingly innocent and safe applications as temporary reliefs from our usual and former busy schedules, mobile days, and, now as also, our shield against boredom and replacement to socializations and frolicking with the outside world.
However, with online engagements, we could not escape the threats of online attacks and cannot promise the security of our privacy, identity, and even our safety even at the comforts of our four-cornered home, CLC, or classroom.
As parents, the defense is to protect our children from unreliable sites, doing privacy settings of our computers, and making sure that we guide them as they explore the net and make use of applications. There are several technical ways of doing these. Yes, we can do that but that’s not possible all the time as we are not always beside them and so the best defense is to be a model of moderation, regulation, and control. “Values are MORE caught than taught,” somebody said this and is really applicable now more than ever.
Nothing beats someone who has a portrayal of good language and safe behavior, and a parent who corrects and takes notice of the languages and behaviors of their children is setting a good example. Also, we should be wary of things like: not because something is funny or enjoyable on the net is something acceptable and worth watching and emulating. We should be corrective of their language, and behaviors as they blurt out sexism, racial discrimination, and foul language. We should halt them at their tracks once they go overboard, and throw some gentle reminders to them. That’s for me as a parent. This is my important learning of the day.
What do you have to say, Wesly, Cecille, Roxanne, and Melvin? What’s in your minds? As EPSA and mobile teachers?
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PARENTS really play an important role to ensure online safety. As teachers, we are the second parents of our learners… We need to be their models so that our attitudes and values will be caught. This is one of the WAYS that we can do to help and guide our learners become wiser, more aware, more thoughtful, more reflective, and more responsible about their use of ICT.
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True po Sir! As they say ‘it all begins at home”… On the other hand, I believe po protection of our ALS learners from online risks leans on teachers’ shoulders…
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Before I comment/reply to your post Sir Engel, allow me to commend first po your reaction on the podcast. Your input po are great and written creatively. I enjoyed reading it.
On the context of offense and defense, allow me to introduce to you the term “digital boundary”, it is an imaginary line that will make you realized two things, (1) “I cannot go beyond this line” and (2) “I will not allow you to go beyond my line”. It is one way of measuring if you already reached your limitation in the online world and if someone already hit below your belt. With this mindset, netizen, whether Digital Natives or Immigrants, will have this sense of awareness in the cyberspace.
In the first podcast we listened, the speaker enumerated the benefits of Digital technology at the same time, reiterated that this benefits will only be achieved if digital technology is properly utilized. And based on this podcast (4th podcast), it can be harmful due to 2 main reason. MISUSE and ABUSE.
Misuse is the incorrect use of the digital resources while in the other hand, Abuse is the excessive use of these gadgets. Self-Regulation, Self- Discipline and Self-Awareness are the keys. Parents, teachers and other significant people around our learners will be a great help in reminding them but still, is will always start from “SELF”.-
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Allow me to capture the words mentioned by Sir Engel … Nothing beats someone who has a portrayal of good language and safe behavior”. Being a parent is one of the most rewarding and challenging jobs, it entails hard work, patience, tons of understanding, adjustments and a multitude of compassion and love to your kids. We work so hard in order to provide the best for them and making their future safe and convenient but as we move mountains for them we failed to provide quality time and we thought that since they are inside of our homes they are already safe and secured.
The use of the internet as a way to make education accessible and possible even if they are within the four-corners of our home does not guarantee safety and security. As parents we should know how to identify the red flags that we need to avoid and deviate the attention of our kids with constant monitoring. We should be grateful if we have parents who can guide us on how to be responsible citizens and be safe online. But how about those who doesn’t have the capacity to teach, explain and direct the kids about the value of online safety? Are they more susceptible to danger? Definitely yes and that is where the Teacher comes in and play a significant role to be the second parent.
It’s easier said than done but if we work together for the common good, we can create a safe digital world with responsible citizens.
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