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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 time from wellbeing leads, DPs, and Heads of Year across Australia. You’re doing your best to stay on top of it, yet the goalposts keep ...

 
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 ...

 
September 1, 2020 Cyber Safety | Cyber Experts | Mobile Apps | suicide | online pornography | depression
Managing student wellbeing online

Cyber safety is not really about technology; it's about student wellbeing. And with the world becoming ever more digital, this presents a multitude of new challenges for admins, wellbeing & pastoral care staff. A comprehensive and ...

 
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 Cyber Safety | Cyber Experts | classroom management | distraction | BYOD
"You can't stop students using the powerful computers in their pockets"

"You can't stop students using the powerful computers in their pockets," notes the director of IT at England’s prestigious Queen Elizabeth School. In a world where screens increasingly dominate life, learning and leisure, it’s an ...

 
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 | Cyber Experts | classroom management | distraction | BYOD
Educating children on responsible internet use vs banning mobile phones from school - have you done your research?

The Internet is a part of our everyday lives, not just for mum and dad, but increasingly for children of all ages, too.

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