Growing digital smarts? Check our biases…

‘Tis the night before the #edchatnz conference and I am mulling over the session I am hoping to facilitate… It’s been just over a month since I joined NetSafe as their new Director of Education, and I have thoroughly enjoyed getting my head around a ‘same but different’ view window on education. The ‘same’ being broad, effective […]

Watershed

Today marks my last day working at CORE Education—Tātai Aho Rau. For over five years (which is a long time in a job these days, so I’m told;), my worklife has been a never-ending ride that has offered a heady mix of professional ‘push’ in terms of practice, knowledge and research, all in an environment […]

Bolting on cybersafety? | Day 8 #28daysofwriting

In the last couple of days, Google and the Alannah and Madeline Foundation announced a further development in their relationship: a $1.2 million grant from Google so that the e-Smart Digital Licence “will be made available to every grade 6 student in Australia in 2015” – Medianet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-YDamdMtCM You can read all about this licence here: https://www.digitallicence.com.au/home […]

3 reasons why online privacy may be the best gift we can give our children

I was recently asked to complete a survey about children (say, under 13) and blogging and I’ve also had a conversation this week about people posting photos of their children online behind limited or no privacy settings. Is this post a hysterical reaction – or common sense? Here are three questions for us to consider […]