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 distressing material. A current example is the Charlie Kirk “assassination” video circulating online. Regardless of the source or accuracy, the ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
Many schools hesitate to implement digital monitoring tools—often referred to (sometimes unfairly) as 'spyware'—out of concern for the legal risks tied to missing an alert. With the introduction of Australia's Right to Disconnect law, some ...
In today’s digital landscape, schools are increasingly adopting systems to gain a deeper and real-time understanding of how students use devices and interact online to better keep students safe. This category of solutions is commonly known ...
What you get from a day, that you don’t from an hour.
Proposed Social Media Ban for Under-16-Year-Olds in Australia: A Step in the Right Direction – But Are We Missing the Mark?