Digital Ghost Stories; Impact, Risks and Reason Hopefully we’ve seen the last of the latest so-called challenge, the one that starts with M and ends with O. By now, hopefully everyone knows that it was a hoax. Prof. Andy Phippen is a Professor of Social Responsibility in IT at University of Plymouth. Together with Emma …
Over the last couple of weeks I’ve had lots of enquiries about the Momo challenge; people are understandably concerned and I don’t blame them, if my children were younger this type of thing would concern me too. What is the Momo challenge and is it a real thing? Firstly, Momo, a creature that is …
Classroom Resources The Office of the eSafety Commissioner (Australia) has got some wonderful classroom resources for primary and secondary schools to use on a whole range of online safety and digital citizenship topics. You can see the resources HERE. Online Safety App (Internet Matters) Aimed at children ages 8-10, this has been around for about …
Chatting and Screensharing apps There is a huge variety of these types of apps, two of which I will mention here. The first is Houseparty – this has been around for a couple of years now and isn’t hugely popular, but I do talk to primary and secondary students that are using it in low …
With the Xmas break very little seemed to happen in the world of online safety so I’m keeping this update short and sweet. The next edition of my DITTO magazine will be out in just over a week’s time so I’ll share further updates in that. Reporting Harmful Content The UK Safer Internet has created …
