The Spotlight Stage SPL03
Addressing Online Abuse: Essentials for Educators and Organisations
Date Thursday, Dec 1 Time – RoomPotsdam III
What is online abuse? Why should educators and organisations be interested? How can you and your organisation effectively address cyberbullying within and across your community?
In this session, Josie Fraser will discuss the scope and impact of online abuse, the ways in which this affects learners, educators and learning communities, and the importance of considering and adopting strategies and approaches to address abusive incidents. ’Cyberbullying’, or online abuse, covers a wide range of behaviours, and has most commonly been seen as an issue of social media and personal technology use. Josie will argue that instances of abuse can negatively impact learners, staff and organisations, and that within digital cultures, maintaining a distinction between social and institutional spaces and uses of technology is not necessarily helpful.
Moderator
Josie Fraser
ICT Strategy Lead (Children's Capital), Social and Educational Technologist, UK
Josie Fraser is a Social and Educational Technologist who has worked across education sectors, with governments, commercial service providers and not for profit organisations, developing innovative and effective practice in the use of technology to support learning and teaching.
Between 2010-2016, she lead the technology strand of Leicester City Council’s £340million Building Schools for the Future Programme - setting, promoting and delivering an agenda for educational transformation in relation to the use of technology within schools. Her work developing school workforce digital literacy, and introducing open education licences and practices to the compulsory education sector has been recognised internationally.
She has worked on behalf of Childnet International to produce national cyberbullying guidance for both Labour and Conservative UK governments.
Since 2015 she has served as a board member of Wikimedia UK, a charity dedicated to supporting access to knowledge for all, promoting engagement with Wikimedia projects, including Wikipedia, Wiki Data, and the Wikimedia Commons.
She blogs at Social Tech and you can follow her on Twitter as @josiefraser
Links
http://fraser.typepad.com/socialtech