We partner with hundreds of schools each year. We get the calls, the emails, the quiet DMs to our Instagram account from wellbeing leads, Heads of Year, and classroom teachers doing their absolute best to keep up. “We just had a deepfake incident. We never saw it coming.” “There’s a student in Year 7 with an AI ‘best friend’… and it’s starting to replace real connection.” “A ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
At ySafe, we’ve spent years engaging with young people about some of the most difficult online safety challenges they face. We know that conversations about risky behaviours, peer pressure, and mental health can be tough, but we also know ...
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 ...