3 requirements to protect students from the risks of the Internet in Abu Dhabi schools


The Abu Dhabi Education Council obligated schools to protect students from exposure to harmful materials, communications and behaviors on the Internet, through the use of a reliable system to purify the global network of information network, with three requirements that allow the school principal to alert when students use inappropriate materials on the Internet, and to prevent students from accessing To the ethics -contrary sites, and other inappropriate sites, and prevent unlicensed persons from accessing school data.

Protecting students from pirates and scammers

The Abu Dhabi Education Council stated that the questionnaire monitored the spread of social media among the students of the emirate, which it conducted, aims to get to know the extent of students exploit by some of the trainees from pirates or fraudsters of users of these means, especially adolescents, with the aim of influencing them negatively, or exploiting them, Or harass them, expose their lives, influence their psychological or emotional balance, or interfere in their personal lives, collect sensitive information, or push them to wrong practices, change their customs and traditions, seek to collect money in fraudulent ways, or publish pictures other than Distinguished, or bullying electronically by practicing psychological or material stress on them, promoting forbidden or dangerous substances such as drugs, pushing them to commit suicide, or adopting extremist or strange ideas.

The council stated that the aim of the policy for protecting from the dangers of the global information network is to protect the school for students from the contents contrary to morals, inappropriate, and unwanted on the Internet, prevent access to sites that contain such materials, and educate students about the proper use of the Internet.

The Council called on schools to prepare a policy to protect from the dangers of the global network of information, and its application, and review it regularly, provided that this policy includes installing a system to purify the global information network sites, and security systems to monitor students’ use of the Internet, and to ensure their protection from materials that are inconsistent with morals, morals and public order, Preventing or downloading any inappropriate materials.

The council’s demands included the necessity of directing students during electronic activities, which would support the planned learning outcomes according to the student’s age and degree of maturity, and prevent the use of the Internet to try unauthorized access to other computers and information or prohibited services, and not to open e -mail or attachments from sources Unknown.

The Council stressed the prevention of the loading or copying of rights preserved, and preventing any activity that can cause viruses or other harmful programs to the school network, stressing the need to ensure that the personal information available in the school via the Internet is safe, even with regard to websites Perfume password.

The council indicated that the principal must adhere to a timetable for continuous professional development to keep teachers to be aware of the latest developments in the Internet, and to review the school technology infrastructure periodically with technology employees and make the necessary improvements to them, while teachers, library secretaries and others are committed Employees to educate students not to open e -mail or attachments from unknown sources, and to check the academic goal of students before allowing them to use the Internet, and educate students about the types of safe information, which can be shared with others via the Internet, and those that should not be shared; Because it endangers them.

In addition, the Abu Dhabi Education Council began conducting a questionnaire to monitor the extent of social media spread among the students of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, who are in adolescence, which includes students of the sixth to twelfth.

The Chairman of the Health Authority, Director General of the Abu Dhabi Education Council, said, Dr. Mugher Khamis Al -Khaili, that the council seeks through this questionnaire to identify the experiences of the emirate’s students in dealing with social media sites and means, and related applications, pointing out that the council seeks to study the extent of the application of students The rules of safe use of these sites, means and applications, in addition to identifying the extent of the influence of these means in the academic and social life of students, and the extent of their influence in adolescence positively or negatively with the virtual world of these applications, means and sites.

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