The document discusses safety issues related to the use of ICT and emphasizes that technology itself is not inherently risky; rather, improper usage can lead to various dangers. It identifies risks such as exposure to inappropriate content, cyberbullying, privacy concerns, and health-related issues due to excessive use. The text advocates for the roles of parents, teachers, and schools in safeguarding users and provides a structure for a term paper on the risks or benefits of technology use in schools.

1. LESSON 2: SAFETY ISSUES ON THE USE
OF ICT INCLUDING E-SAFETY RULES

2. Is technology a risk?
•Using technology is not a risk by itself, but
how it is used will be vulnerable to risks.
•When improperly used, it will pose
danger to the users in school and at
home.

3. •What are the safety issues
that are needed to be
addressed by safety policy
and guidelines?

4. Some Risks in the Use of ICT and e-Networking
•Technology is a phenomenon that
seems to be uncontrollable. As a
teacher how would you be able to
control the learners for the risk?

5. •Safeguard and protection should
be the primordial role of parents,
teachers and schools.

6. There are so many risks that we have to be aware of in the
use of digital technologies. These may include the following:
1. Exposure to inappropriate content,
including on- line pornography, extremism
(exposure to violence associated with racist
language);

7. 1. Lifestyle websites like self-harms and suicide sites, and hate sites;
2. Cyber-bullying in all forms, receiving sexually explicit images
or
messages;
3. Privacy issues including disclosure of personal information;
4. Health and well-being (amount of time spent on-line, internet
gaming and many more;

8. 6.Prolonged exposure to on-line
technologies, particularly at an early age;
7.Addiction to gambling and gaming;
8.Theft and fraud from activities such as
phishing;
9.Viruses, Trojans, spyware and other
malware; and

9. Minor Misuse of ICT
•In school, some minor misuses made by learners include the
following:
Copying informationinto assignment and failing to
acknowledge the source (plagiarism and copyright infringement)
Downloading materials not relevant to their studies
Misconduct associated with subject logins, such as using
someone else’s password
Leaving a mobile phone turned on during class period
Unauthorized taking of pictures or images with mobile phone
camera, still or moving

10. e-Safety
With all of the above concerns and many more, how do we
confront all of these so as to protect our future generation?

16. Activity
Make a term paper related to the risk or benefits of using technology inside
the school premise. Follow the format.
• Title
• Inroduction
• Statement of the problem
• Result
• Conclusion
Note: (A4 size bond paper printed/ Arial 12/ Margin 1 inch/ spacing 1.5)
Deadline: Sept. 29, 2023. Submit via google classroom.
File name: Module number. Complete name example Mod2.Juan Dela Cruz