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October 12, 2025

ySafe | How Schools Are Structuring Their Cyber Safety Days (and Why It Works)

Schools often ask us what a full cyber safety day actually looks like. The truth is, there’s no single template. Every school has its own challenges, priorities, and community needs. That’s why ySafe offers the Build-A-Day program, so you can co-design a day with an expert that will work for your school, for you and for the issues and outcomes you're hoping for. Here’s how we ...

 
October 12, 2025
ySafe | What’s the Return on a Full-Day Cyber Safety Program?

Schools often hesitate to devote a whole day to cyber safety education, and that’s understandable. Single sessions are less demanding in terms of time, commitment, and cost, and they are quicker and easier to organise. But when you compare ...

 
October 12, 2025
ySafe | Cybersafety Day vs Session: What’s the Real Difference?

What’s the difference between an online safety presentation and a Cybersafety Day? It’s a question we hear all the time. And it’s fair. Dedicating a whole day to cyber safety education can feel like a big ask, it takes more time, more ...

 
September 12, 2025 Cyber Safety | content filtering | school filtering | viral content
Cybersafety Alert: Charlie Kirk Video – What It Is and How Schools Can Respond

When shocking stories break online, they don’t stay contained to the news cycle. Within hours, headlines, reaction clips and memes can flood TikTok, YouTube and group chats, pulling students’ attention and, at times, exposing them to ...

 
August 1, 2025 Cyber Safety | Cyber Experts | cyberbullying | online safety | digital wellbeing
ySafe | Your Cybersafety Education Isn’t Broken. But it Needs to Evolve.

You’ve probably felt it yourself, that moment when a student issue online catches you off guard. One week, it’s a new platform. The next it’s something no one saw coming. And you’re left thinking: Are we doing enough? We hear that all the ...

 
July 31, 2025 Cyber Safety | Cyber Experts | Mobile Apps | ICT capabilities | BYOD | EdTech
Every Frustration Is the Absence of a System

What IT leaders are teaching us about the real work of making 1:1 succeed An innovative IT Director – Issam Ibrahim, Amity College shared something after a recent conference that stopped us in our tracks: “Every frustration is the absence ...

 
July 30, 2025 Cyber Safety | Cyber Experts | Mobile Apps | ICT capabilities | BYOD | EdTech
What Today’s Schools Really Need from a Cybersafety Ecosystem

The digital environment in schools has evolved rapidly. 1:1 programs are no longer new; they’re standard. What's relatively new is that schools are moving away from BYOD, and as school-owned device access has scaled, the systems designed ...

 
April 3, 2025
ySafe | A Wake-Up Call for Australian Digital Parenting: 5 Key Takeaways from Adolescence

Netflix's series Adolescence offers a sobering glimpse into the digital lives of today's youth. It shines a light on the chaos of Instagram drama, the erosion of respect for school staff, and the subtle ways adolescents are drawn into ...

 
April 3, 2025
ySafe | Understanding the Hidden Meanings Behind Emojis

Insights from Netflix's Adolescence for Australian Schools and Parents Netflix's recent series Adolescence has ignited discussions about the influence of online subcultures on youth behavior. The drama follows 13-year-old Jamie Miller, ...

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