We reflected on whether online services, schools and the government are doing enough to support us (young people) online.
By writing letters to our Prime Minister, we are attempting to improve our safety. Below are some of our initial thoughts.
By using Google Docs, we could share our work with Mr Lynch (who could help us when writing by sitting at his computer). After this, we shared our work collaboratively with another person in our class. This helped us to peer assess each other's work, adding and helping to improve.
Comment examples of your letters (you never know, Mr Cameron might see them).
ReplyDeleteDear Mr Cameron,
I am writing to you as I believe that Internet safety is a big problem and needs to be discussed; I thought there could not be a better time than on Safer Internet Day. As you may be aware, millions of children are exploring sites that are well above their age limit - this is a staggering 71% of 10-12 year olds in the UK. We are in a crisis that only the intelligence and power of you can stop.I have had some solutions that I would like to share as the previous ideas have been overruled by some untruthful people.
First of all, social media sites, such as Instagram, are a threat to people who post pictures that other people might save and keep for themselves, which can be disturbing.I think that it would be wise for all accounts to be private and you must have some sort of permission to explore people’s posts.This rule should also apply to websites like:Snapchat,Facebook and Twitter.
Another solution would be to add age limits to everything as inappropriate language and gestures can put people off that site and that is not what we want.I suggest that the best option to do is enable things only at the age of what their profile tells us they are.
Speaking about profiles,there is a serious case of children under the age of 18 found lying about their age. A way to stop this once and for all is to drop a heavy fine on the parents of the child found not telling the truth.This shall wisen their guardians to not let this happen again. A backup plan would be to check and ask for proof of the age they claim to be.
While talking about this, we have to remember that we don’t want to throw kids off the Internet as they are the future in the making and it can be great for their education.Google can give exciting words,spellings and answers to almost any and everything.
I believe that this should make the Internet a much nicer place and safe for everyone to use.
Are you on my side?
Thank you for your time,
With great regards,
Joshua
Dear David Cameron,
ReplyDeleteI am writing to inform you of the present issues of internet safety. I will show some of the upgrades that I have figured would make the internet a safer place. Hopefully, you will be able to take your time to read this letter as it is very important to children’s safety. Did you know that up to 71% of children from the age of 10 to 12 go on social media sites that are rated from the age of 13? This needs to change. My first point would be, talking to strangers online.
Strangers sometimes like to find out personal information about children (for instance: where they live and their school). This can result in children being killed or kidnapped. That's why it is safer for money to be invested into schools so that they can be taught how to keep themselves safer online and not to give their personal information away. This is especially important because someone you think you know could have easily been hacked. If teachers or parents knew more about how it could be safer, children could be thoroughly educated in the knowledge of internet safety. My second point would be, to eradicate indications of inappropriate behaviour or language.
In addition, inputting an automatic clearer that deletes and sends a warning to people who write unsuitable comments to other users online.If they have received more than 3 warnings, their account gets removed. This would help lessen recordings of cyber- bullying. Moreover, social media sites need to automatically make accounts private, so that the user can make the decision whether to keep it on private or leave it open to the public.
Private accounts can make a huge impacts on everyone’s social life online. Sometimes, they are completely oblivious to the fact that there is a switch to make your account private. As a result this could reduce the number of kidnappings and murders. Also, it would make it harder for random strangers to duplicate your photos and imposter you. After all a safer country is a finer country. Furthermore, higher rated video games that children under age are playing is not good.
I think this as they have violence and can cause the children to react like this towards other children; endangering their lives. This could be the beginning of a brighter future for Great Britain, after all it is in our name.There is no way that you wouldn’t be able to create this country into a secure place. Hopefully, you will heed to my updates in the internet and be able to invest money to a safer cause for children. Thank you for taking your time to read this message.
Yours sincerely
Demi
ReplyDeleteDear David Cameron,
I am writing to inform you that I have a couple of ideas on how to make the internet a safer place for the young people online.
My first idea is to give you an option if you want a private account on any social media site like: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and Snapchat. I also would like there to be a better way to tell how old someone is because 78% of children under the age of 10 and 12 are on the social media sites named, before when they should be.
Strangers and horrible behaviour seems to be mostly the problem to people getting upset and there is not a clear icon if you want to block a person or report them. So many people are getting cyberbullied because they don’t know where the ‘private account’ icon is. It isn’t clear so they don’t know who is looking at their picture - this puts them in danger. Another worrying thing is that some people can’t be bothered to report them because, when you go to report the person, it is so long to do so.
Finally, education is key to the young people of the earth, so why not make education fun for children by making more games that are educational for the children. It would be an easy and fun way for children to learn.
Hopefully, you will take my ideas on board and make the changes that will make the internet a safer place.
Yours sincerely,
Jack
Dear David Cameron,
ReplyDeleteI am writing to tell you how we can improve keeping children safe online.There are a lot of issues with safety on the internet, especially with younger children and teenagers. At the moment, the internet is very advanced but it is not as safe as it should be.
For my first point about safety, I am going to discuss how we could make social media websites safer for children. Over 70% of children between the ages of 10 and 12 have accounts on social media sites, such as facebook and instagram (when only people over the age of 13 are allowed them). Children with social media accounts on websites, such as these, should be able to sign into them without worrying about random people following them. If children get a request from a random person and their account is not on private they don't have a say in whether on not the people can follow them.Which is why I think big companies like instagram should make it easier for children to put their account on private.Do you really want to endanger a young person’s life just because of the internet?
Moreover,I think that children and adults should know more about the internet.If you funded just a little bit more to schools, about once a week they could have a lesson on internet safety. I especially think that adults ought to know more about the internet and what their children are doing or watching.A lot more children nowadays get cyber bullied, so I think that the parents should be able to know about it, especially if their child is too scared to even tell their own parents.
Furthermore,if your child is online, it is very important they stay safe.When online, children should always keep their private information private or any random person could find out where you live and where you go to school.You need to inform more children about posting pictures of themselves online; this means that any person could just copy an image of you when you don’t want them to.What if a child made very good friends with a person online but they didnt actually know who they were.Any person online could say they were a young girl but actually be an old man but the child doesn’t know them. They could invite them to their house and something could happen to the child.This is why you should inform children about how vital it is that you should only let people they know be friends or follow them on their social media account.
Thank you for taking the time to read my letter.I hope that soon the internet will be safer for children to go on.Please try and help people of all ages understand the internet better and learn how to be safer when online
Yours sincerely,
Flora
Dear David Cameron,
ReplyDeleteI am writing to you because I think it needs to be safer on the internet. On the internet, people have been: getting bullied, arguing, saying rude things in comments, etc. Here are some of my suggestions to stop this and other things.
My first suggestion is about websites such as: Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter.On these websites, when you create your account, it should automatically make your account private.If you want other people to see it, you can press a button.I said this because the privacy settings are very hard to find on most websites.
At school, we should be taught about internet safety at least once a week.You could help make it happen by adding it to the curriculum.This will make sure that we are getting told about strangers and how people could be nasty.Also, it will make us be more aware about this.You could say to schools that they could do computing clubs to help with this.
Lastly, is my best idea, I think.On google, when you search something, it shows website names. It should have a rating on it (like films: U, PG, 12A, 18)!This would help because it would stop people from going on websites that aren’t age appropriate. Also, Youtube could have ratings to stop people from watching bad videos. Although, it shouldn’t just go to these two website it should go to all of them.
In conclusion,I hope that you will make my points happen and I assure you that it will stop:bullying,rude comments. It will make people feel safer.
Yours sincerely,
Charlie
ReplyDeleteDear David Cameron,
I am writing to express my worries about the safety of the internet.To my concern, many children spend a long time on electronic devices and lots,including teenagers, report about issues such as age limits,private accounts, and education: all of which can be unsafe and needs to be changed. These are a few of my points that I will now explain.
To start with: age limits. I would like to confirm that children too young have social media; it is a true fact that over 71% of children aged 10-12 have a social media account: illegally.This shows that many under-aged youth do not respect the strict age recommendations provided in many places on the internet - such as games.Many accounts,such as facebook,instagram and snapchat, are age-rated 13 years of age. However, many of a younger age have an account. Making a useful suggestion, an idea is that in the settings of the actual electronic device, there be a proper date of birth.Therefore, children too young are to be prevented from accessing age-restricted websites and making accounts on social media rated of a higher age.Many children, as well as adults, have reported having trouble setting up privacy on their account settings.
Secondly, moving on,I would like to discuss the issue many have experienced is great difficulty in switching their social media accounts to the setting private.In my opinion, I strongly believe that this is the result of having a unclear button to press, in order to turn on the private setting.More so, a page of terms and conditions to be read before you agree to their policy.I believe strongly in my point of view which is that many are put off because of the amount they have to read.Instead,I think it is a great idea to make the private button size bigger so that people do not spend long periods of time searching for the icon. Children should be educated about the immense dangers.
Going on to my last point,I will now mention the education.Recommending another point, I believe that you could put some more money into schools for at least one lesson a week on internet safety.This will help young people understand and be educated about the dangers of the internet.Hopefully, you understand what I am trying to compromise.
I hope you understand all my points and decide to take action.Thank you for your co-operation
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Yours sincerely,
Lora and Megan
Wow that is a very detailed piece of work ❤️
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