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You will find here the latest updates regarding school's ICT matters, as well as recent trends in mobile gaming, social media and other cyber-security issues that can affect our children.
You will find here the latest updates regarding school's ICT matters, as well as recent trends in mobile gaming, social media and other cyber-security issues that can affect our children.
Social Media Trend
Social Media Trend
Besides Instagram, there is another new platform named "Tellonym" that can be linked to Instagram. What makes Tellonym a potential social media hazard for young people is that "it lets you ask and answer questions about each other anonymously. It's easy to come across adult themes including sex, drink, drugs and abusive comments if filters are not switched on." (net-aware.org.uk)
Currently, CCHM has uncovered a few Tellonym accounts linked to some inappropriate instagram sites such as "cchmconfession" where some students are visiting. Many posts submitted to Tellonym are published on these instagram platforms. Some of these posts are made up.
The school discipline committee had been warning our students about these instagram sites and Tellonym. The school has been reporting on these instagram sites since 2019 Jun, but unfortunately the Instagram company is not taking any action to close these accounts. Till today, the school is still tracking down these administrators
What can you do?
What can you do?
Discourage your child from using Tellonym. The school can ban its use in the campus, but most of the time our students are accessing these Tellonym posts and the linked instagram sites while they are at home. For more tips on how to guide your child at home, go here.
Educate your child that Instagram sites such as "cchmconfessions" can be run by external parties who might have ulterior motives. As much as the school is willing to public ban on these sites, doing so may spawn more "underground" instagram sites
You can actually report on these instagram sites, following these procedures here (and you don't need an instagram account to do so). The name of these inappropriate sites are as below:
a. cchmsconfession (reported by CCHM in Jun 20)
b. cchmsconfessionsec1 (reported by CCHM in Jul 20)
c. cchmsconfession1.2.0 (reported by CCHM in Jun 19)
d. cchms_lgbtq (reported by CCHM in Jan 20)
School Updates
School Updates
1 Aug 2020 -- CCHM will stop using the Chung Cheng App for both our teachers and students. This is to streamline our apps under a single Google apps' domain (cchm.edu.sg), and also to provide a more inclusive platform to allow our students to be part of Form Class chat group using either both a smartphone or a personal computers. In other word, our students need NOT to own a smartphone to use Whatsapp for school work or communications, as they can use Google Chat on a personal computer or tablet.
Do you know... ?
Do you know... ?
Compared to Whatsapp, Google Chat only needs the CCHM Gmail account to locate the any school students and staff? In this way, mobile numbers will be protected and need not be exchanged to form any chat group under Google Chat.
Google Chat logged under cchm.edu.sg account will be protected against any external party who wants to come in to chat with any of our students.
School Updates
School Updates
24 Jul 2020 -- CCHM has started to promote the use of Google Chat logged in under cchm.edu.sg account to build a safer and secure cyber-chat environment for both our teachers and students. Our teachers had begun migrating their Whatsapp chat groups to Google Chat, and Discipline Committee has started to ask students to stop using Whatsapp, Telegram and other externally hosted cyber-chat tools. CCA group chats are migrating to Google Chat as well.
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Do you know... ?
There have been many vulgar videos and images being circulated in Whatsapp lately. (Click on the underlined text to read the news)
Whatsapp can be easily hacked online? Telegram is equally vulnerable and can be hacked as well.
School Updates in Cyber-Discipline
School Updates in Cyber-Discipline
Jan 2021 -- CCHM would like to assure you that we encourage our students to use CCHM Google Chat, CCHM Gmail & Google Classroom as their main mode of communication with their peers and teachers, as they are safer platforms for communication and dissemination of information. The school can monitor the usage of these platforms by the students. Kindly encourage your child/ward likewise when you talk to them.
Jan 2020 -- CCHM had made it a clear to all students that the school rules forbid students to use any mobile devices in the classroom AT ALL TIME without teacher's permission. Any student who needs to use their phone for personal purposes will have to do it outside his/her classroom during recess.
Jan 2019 -- To encourage productive uses of mobile devices in school, CCHM introduced a new school rule to ban all mobile gaming at ALL TIME and PLACES in school. Any student caught gaming in school for multiple times, will be given disciplinary consequences that includes counselling, while his/her parents will be invited to attend cyberwellness workshop to learn how to manage the child's gaming behaviour at home.
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Do you know... ?
There is a rising trend of school discipline cases involving students using inappropriate language and sharing vulgar materials in chat groups. Google Chat logged in under cchm.edu.sg is able to set alerts to spot common vulgarity used in all school chats.
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