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Cybersafe with Roar in Tasmania!

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Students and teachers in Tasmania’s state schools are finally set to reap the benefits of the award-winning cyber-safety modules, created by Tasmanian software developers, which have been licensed to more than 10,000 schools in the UK. The modules called Us Online promote digital literacy by teaching kids (years 1 – 10) about the safe, responsible use of digital technologies including… Read more »
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Roar now working with a network of freelance Local Authority Consultants across UK

In this difficult economic climate Roar has forged new mutually beneficial relationships with ex-Local Authority Consultants. Hussen Raza, Roar’s UK General Manager said, “Quite a few of the Local Authority clients Roar was working with for the past few years… Read more »

Multiple Intelligence Theory

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Why is it the case that people demonstrate such a range of aptitudes to learning, or that any teaching technique will produce  a range of results in any given group of learners. The Multiple Intelligence Theory of Howard… Read more »

Next Generation Learning [VIDEO]

Next Generation Learning

On a recent visit to Australia, Stewart Smith outlined the opportunities and challenges of 'Next Generation' learning. Stewart is helping to drive next generation learning at the London Grid for Learning (LGfL). Stewart is Director of ICT Strategic Leadership at LGfL and ICT Advisor for the Borough of Brent. Read more »

Do We have Safer Children in a Digital World?

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Us Online references the current cyber-safeguarding literature, and foremost draws on Safer Children in a Digital World: The Report of the Byron Review (2008), and arguments for empowering children and young people to keep themselves safe. This… Read more »

Cyber-Safety education: where does it fit?

In Australia cyber-safeguarding straddles the mega federal departments of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR), and Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy (DBCDE) and their tangle of national policy initiatives. Cyber-safety also gets pulled across the federal-state divide, with responsibility… Read more »

Australian Government Cyber-Safety Inquiry

Roar is preparing a submission to the Government’s Joint Select Committee on Cyber-Safety, due 25 June 2010. The terms of reference for the submission are as follows. (a) That a Joint Select Committee on… Read more »