Today was esafety day. We learnt that esafety stands for electronic safety. We learnt lots of ways to stay safe online and when using electronics. There are lots of fun ways of using these electronics but we explored the need to be safe while we are online.
We started by becoming characters in the new online spy game John Bond. We started by inventing, and introducing, our spy characters with our signature spy moves.
We talked about what usernames are and who would see our usernames online (strangers). Because of this we learnt that we need to be very careful about what personal information we use as part of our usernames. In particular we shouldn’t use our names, ages or addresses. We then discussed how to make passwords super safe so people cannot crack them. Suggestions included: swapping letters for numbers like e for 3 or o for 0.
Passwords are personal and we should never say them out loud. We discussed that we can share these with our parents or carers but not to other people to keep ourselves safe. We talked about our right to say no and that no means no. We talked about not needing to feel bad or uncomfortable in saying no as it is our right. We agreed that if we are worried about upsetting someone by saying no then we will always talk to another parent or adult at school about it.
We then met 008 and her spy case…
We were given a block button to press if something happened that we didn’t like while we were playing the game. We learnt that at home we can press it if we saw something we shouldn’t see of if we got a message from someone we didn’t know.
We were given a screen shot to press if we wanted to capture a photo of our screen. We learnt that we can use this if someone sent us a message to help us report them.
We were also given a giant phone with which we were able to call the makers of the game, and report if anything went wrong.
We received our first message… The evil Cyber Bully was back! A cyber bully is someone that sends bullys us online – Several Times On Purpose.
We discussed how we could use the items in our inventory to defeat him. We decided we would: screenshot, block and report. We had successfully completed level one and moved on to level two…
We then learnt about viruses and how computers catch them if we click accept and put our details in. We agreed never to fall for a fishy deal that are too good to be true and always think if someone on the other end of the computer is trying to trick us.
Like the true spys Year 3 are, they snuck up on the evil Dr Fishy and tried not to set off the alarm.
Along the way we received messages and had to to choose whether to open or block messages.
One player was tricked into downloading a rare super spy badge and therefore got a virus and was frozen! Fortunately, she had downloaded some antivirus software so her computer was safe.
We completed the game by answering some questions and cracking the code to complete the game.
Ask your child, what would they do in these different scenarios online:
- A message pops up – “You could win £400! All you need to do is type your name in, below.”
- Your cousin asks you for your Lexia password but promises not to tell anyone else…
- You’re playing a game with some friends online and someone you don’t know sends you unkind messages that hurt you. You talk to your friend about it and they’ve got the same messages but it hasn’t upset them.
Great undercover work, super spys!