Safeguarding children online, or “safeguarding children in a digital world”, or is it “Keeping children safe in Education by knowing what is happening online with, for and against children”? Well it’s all of the above and it’s what I teach in my course of the same name, of which there is one this month. It’sContinue reading “Safeguarding children online”
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Online Harm or Harm Online
Originally published 3 April, 2019 Online Harm or Harm online can be difficult to define accurately in a quantitative frame Harm online can be seen to be behaviours that are carried out with varying ‘modus operandi’s’ such as intentional versus unintentional, delayed versus immediate and direct and indirect. They can be multi-modal, multi-platform and multi-interval.Continue reading “Online Harm or Harm Online”
When trigger warnings are not enough, nor are they a valid reason to potentially traumatise an audience
Originally published 3 April, 2019 Gaming is inherently and mostly safe, as is the world we live in. Our nervous system responses have and are increasingly tapped into by the skewed narrative that is available through social media and new media outlets. Research from leading academics/scientists and researchers such as Steven Pinker has highlighted thatContinue reading “When trigger warnings are not enough, nor are they a valid reason to potentially traumatise an audience”
The ‘Human algorithm’ that schools and parents feed through fear concerning social media ‘trends’
Originally published 27 February, 2019 How perpetrators of crime are relying on you to advertise their products for free; and you do. How you may be adding to the online harm issues for children and young people without being Free advertising used to be a dream for large companies who wanted to sell their productsContinue reading “The ‘Human algorithm’ that schools and parents feed through fear concerning social media ‘trends’”