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    This document discusses curbing online risks among school children. It outlines two main risks children face online: contact risks involving interactions with offenders, and content risks where children are exposed to pornography. Recent incidents like sextortion and distribution of naked pictures online have caused alarm. To address these issues, schools must establish capacity building programs to raise awareness among teachers, students, and parents about online abuse. They must also install internet filters and develop child protection policies integrating cybersafety and anti-bullying provisions. Institutionalizing these mechanisms can help create a safer online environment for students.

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    This document discusses curbing online risks among school children. It outlines two main risks children face online: contact risks involving interactions with offenders, and content risks where children are exposed to pornography. Recent incidents like sextortion and distribution of naked pictures online have caused alarm. To address these issues, schools must establish capacity building programs to raise awareness among teachers, students, and parents about online abuse. They must also install internet filters and develop child protection policies integrating cybersafety and anti-bullying provisions. Institutionalizing these mechanisms can help create a safer online environment for students.

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    Curbing Online Risks among School Children

    By: Dennis John M. Espinoza, PhD


    Education Program Supervisor
    Field Technical Assistance Division (FTAD)
    DepEd Regional Office No. 2

    Children interact with various personalities online. Thus, as educators


    and stewards, it is imperative that we become familiar with the cyber contact of
    our children, i.e., who children interact with online.

    Moreover, there is a need to recognize the various risks they are exposed
    to in cyber space. These can be categorized as contact risks and content risks.
    In the former, offenders victimize children purportedly for the production of
    child pornography or any form of child sexual abuse materials; whereas, the
    latter embroils the exposure of children to pornography and other sexually
    explicit content.

    Just recently, some children were exposed to online interactions which


    caused public alarm among educators and parents, e.g., sextortion, naked
    pictures/videos for sale. These acts should be blatantly condemned and dealt
    with urgency and seriousness. Indeed, online child protection should be
    everyone’s concern; it has become a critical social issue that needs to be acted
    upon especially during this pandemic.

    To proactively arrest these risks, the following enabling mechanisms


    must be established in schools, viz: capacity building, technology and
    policy. Hence, the ensuing questions should be aptly answered. Does my
    school have sessions in order to raise awareness of teachers, students and
    parents to RECOGNIZE and ADDRESS the online abuse of students? Do we have
    internet filters installed in our school internet connection and/or computer
    terminals? Does my school have a localized Child Protection Policy (CPP) which
    integrates cybersafety and anti-bullying/cyberbullying provisions?

    If the foregoing mechanisms are institutionalized in schools, then, at the


    very least, we are assured of a safer cyberspace among our learners. Hence,
    may we embrace these remarkable online safeguards to warrant a more
    effective online child protection effort.

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