Do We have Safer Children in a Digital World?

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 »

June 2, 2010 in: Schools, Teachers
Tags: DBCDE, DEEWR, government, safeguarding, school

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11,000 kids were tested in October 2008, as part of the National Assessment Program (NAP) three-year cycle looking at the ICT literacy of Australian school children. The report on that assessment is published as 2008 National ICT… Read more »

April 22, 2010 in: Learners, Parents, Schools, Teachers
Tags: assessment, digital literacy, government, ICT, school

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Findings across Europe suggest that for online teenagers, the rank ordering of risks experienced is fairly similar. Giving out personal information is the most common risky behaviour, followed by encountering pornography online, then by seeing violent or hateful… Read more »

June 30, 2009 in: Parents, Schools, Teachers
Tags: bullying, cyber-bullying, cyber-safety, digital citizenship, digital literacy, government, safeguarding, teasing, Web 2.0

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