Blogs and latest news on digital safety in educational communities

 
November 3, 2021 Cyber Safety | Mobile Apps | classroom management | digital learning | e-learning
Managing the risks of e-learning resources in your school

E-learning resources offer schools/kura incredible opportunities to enhance student learning with an abundance of exciting applications and platforms to use. While the benefits are clear, it can be easy to overlook the risks of e-learning ...

 
October 22, 2021 digital wellbeing
What schools can learn from ‘The Facebook Files’

Over the course of the past month, the Wall Street Journal has published an investigative journalism series, The Facebook Files, revealing some of the serious harm the company’s products (including Facebook-owned Instagram) causes users ...

 
October 21, 2021 online safety | digital wellbeing | Policy | how-to
How to manage online incidents at your school

It doesn’t matter how proactive schools are in supporting young people to build the knowledge, skills, attitudes and values needed to make safe and informed choices online, sometimes things happen that you can’t plan or anticipate.

 
August 31, 2021 how-to | community
Linewize by Family Zone expands to protect 9 million children

Tim Levy, Managing Director of Linewize by Family Zone shares the story of how our dedication to protecting children online made the difference in a highly competitive business acquisition.

 
May 19, 2021 online safety
Online Safety Self-Review for Schools

With so many competing priorities for schools, finding time to reflect on approaches to online safety and wellbeing is challenging. To help your school overcome barriers preventing reflection, we have created a simple Online Safety ...

 
March 19, 2021 schools | online pornography | sexual assault | violence | consent
How online porn is fuelling sexual violence in our schools

It started with a simple question: “Have you or has anyone close to you experienced sexual assault from someone who went to an all-boys school?”

 
February 22, 2021 remote learning | online safety | digital wellbeing
COVID crisis highlights need for greater focus on student online safety

Practically overnight, the pandemic forced our school communities to transition to new modes of teaching and learning. With remote instruction now firmly established as part of the new normal, student cyber safety has emerged as an urgent ...

 
November 24, 2020 Cyber Safety | wellbeing | well-being | online learning | parental engagement | community
Engaging your parent community in cyber safety, here are our 6 tips

The last few years have demonstrated how important the internet is to modern-day life. Across the world, it became our main workplaces, social spaces, and classrooms. With students spending more time at home and online, it meant more ...

 
November 4, 2020 School Manager | how-to
How-To: Control VPN usage by students at your school

We are seeing many students using VPNs to bypass school network filtering. Linewize can help you detect usage and steer students towards responsible internet use.

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