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March 9, 2020 Cyber Safety | grooming | Social Media | dangerous apps
A School's Guide for Managing TikTok

There are students at your school using TikTok - probably most of them. Use of the social video app by students has exploded over the past couple of years and many schools are struggling to deal with the impact. Students skipping school, ...

 
July 20, 2019 Cyber Safety | Cyber Experts | sleep | sleep deprivation | smartphone
What's keeping your students up at night?

Least surprising statistic of the week: 95% of school principals think students spend too much time on devices when they’re not in school.

 
July 20, 2019 Screen time | screens in school | classroom management | digital citizenship | online pornography | digital learning | Duty of Care
Is online pornography the new sex ed?

Are young people getting their sex education from pornography? The New Zealand Education Review Office thinks so - and most international experts agree. Should schools be doing more to address this?

 
July 20, 2019 Cyber Safety | Cyber Experts | screens in school | classroom management | digital citizenship | partner school program
Linewize Classwize: Your superpower for managing student internet

As an educator, you don’t need x-ray vision to figure out that you and your students aren’t always on the same page.

 
July 20, 2019 Cyber Safety | Cyber Experts | mental health | smartphones | wellbeing | primary school | Social Media
Mental health crisis in primary years linked to screen-time, social media

Primary school kids as young as five are self-harming, acting out and suffering from mood disorders at unheard-of rates - and social media and smartphones are being identified as a major contributing factor.

 
July 20, 2019 Cyber Safety | Mobile Apps | Parental Controls | ecosystem | well-being
Cyber Safety or Student Wellbeing?

Cyber safety is simple, according to online safety specialist John Parsons. It's not really about technology at all; it's about student wellbeing.

 
July 20, 2019 Cyber Safety | Cyber Experts | Mobile Apps | classroom management | online pornography
The Porn Curriculum: What it's teaching your students

A survey has confirmed what many educators already suspect: that boys and girls are consuming online porn at ever-younger ages, and accepting its often brutal “messaging” at face value - with disastrous outcomes for their physical and ...

 
July 20, 2019 Cyber Safety | Cyber Experts | classroom management | vpn | distraction | BYOD | hotspotting
Six ways students are hacking your firewall

Watching YouTube. Playing Fortnite. Maintaining a SnapStreak. Commenting on YOLO. Bingeing on Riverdale. Sneaking porn. ‘gramming pretty much everything.

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