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We also see that the risks evoked for students are strongly influenced by their personal experience and the concerns they may have for themselves, such as here, on social networks:

But the problem with social networks is that they are very... it’s a bit of a vent for everyone and I don’t really like that system (management teacher in a senior high school, 39 years old).

These concerns crystallize around the use of social networks and the information disseminated or used on the Web. They are first projected onto the students, as expressed by this English teacher:

I just think that there is no limit in fact with the digital environment among students... and it goes over our heads. It goes over our heads, their heads and the parents’ heads, over everyone’s and uh... at the same time it’s addictive for them so... it’s addictive and it’s destructive at the same time and it’s risky, too. That’s why it’s really worrying (English teacher in a high school, age 25).

The cell phone is also a subject that gives rise to debate and apprehension within schools. Its prohibition in schools and colleges, apart from educational uses, has undoubtedly reinforced certain apprehensions among teachers, as expressed by this high school teacher: