A comprehensive national framework for online safety education is overdue, say a growing consensus of educators - and a new report commissioned by Australia's eSafety Commissioner provides a detailed blueprint for constructing it.
The coronavirus pandemic has had unprecedented implications for schools Down Under including millions of students working from home for a prolonged period of time. What are the cyber safety implications of this and what can and should ...
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, ...
Least surprising statistic of the week: 95% of school principals think students spend too much time on devices when they’re not in school.
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?
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.
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.
Cyber safety is simple, according to online safety specialist John Parsons. It's not really about technology at all; it's about student wellbeing.
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 ...