Teens trying to use ‘ancient’ phone Let’s start the week off with a smile. The link below is to a YouTube video (2 minutes) of 2 American teenagers trying to use an old analogue phone. I have no idea whether it’s a setup or real, but it certainly brought a smile to my face: […]
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I love my photography; I have been taking photographs since the mid 90’s. Like so many others, I started when our first son was born as I wanted to document our family, particularly our children growing up, and at one time I even developed my own black and whites, long before the days of digital.
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Children and Social Media (privacy settings) Last week I was at a wonderful school speaking to Y3 and 4 children. As part of the talk with the children, the subject of social media and privacy settings came up. One Y3 child stated that she wasn’t allowed to set her Instagram account to private, she said
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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
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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
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