Minecraft Education Edition: A Snapshot for Parents and Educators
Minecraft Education Edition is a popular educational version of the beloved sandbox game, Minecraft, which has been designed specifically for learning purposes. It offers a wide range of benefits for children’s development, creativity and problem-solving skills while ensuring a safe and controlled environment. We explore how to use Minecraft Education Edition and highlight its safety features and the numerous advantages it brings to a child’s education.
DigiKnow Podcast: byte-sized conversations to keep your family safe online
DigiKnow the Cyber Safety Project now has a podcast for families? Byte-sized conversations for parents/guardians and their kids to tune in and start the important chat about building cyber security, cyber safety and digital wellbeing habits.
Using Picture Books to Teach Cyber Safety and Digital Wellbeing to Young Children
As online safety and the issues related to digital wellbeing have become more widely spoken about, there have been some wonderful picture books published to complement these conversations. Here are some of our favourites…
The Metaverse: Explained in words you’ll understand
The metaverse is what is known to be the next generation of the internet. Find out what benefits the metaverse will bring, the dangers that will come along with it, and how you can keep your family safe.
Your Child’s Biggest Influencer
Parents modelling healthy technology use is an effective way to help a child learn to use it responsibly. Let’s demonstrate to our children the type of healthy technology use we’d like to see them adopt.
12 Fun and Educational Home Learning Resources
As communities around the globe are dealing with Coronavirus (COVID-19) concerns and with school closures seemingly imminent here in Australia, we know that many educators and parents are exploring home learning options. We are in schools every day and seeing first hand how our schools are grappling with what home learning and virtual learning looks like now and into […]
App Watch: MESSENGER KIDS (FACEBOOK)
Messenger Kids (powered by Facebook) has just launched here in Australia. With the extra time on our hands during home isolation and limited social connections, this App is quickly gaining momentum as a ‘safe’ way to keep kids connected. Messenger Kids is a free video calling and messaging app for smartphones and tablets linked to […]
What is really happening on TikTok?
TikTok is the worlds fastest growing entertainment apps recording over 1.5 billion downloads from the Apple & Google Play Stores in 2019. The App is jam packed full of features with more than meets the eye. This month we dive under the hood of TikTok to uncover what is really happening on this entertainment/social networking platform that has everyone […]
App Watch: Anonymous Messaging
TELLOYMN joins a growing family of anonymous messaging applications including Sarahah, Ask.FM and Line. These platforms have evolved into an online environment rife with insults, inappropriate content and regular online bullying. Why are anonymous messenger apps so popular among teenagers? They are forums which conceal the users identity and location and enable #TBH (to be honest) commenting. TELLONYM encourages users to “answer anonymous […]
The POWER IS YOURS: How to SET Social MEDIA & Gaming Profiles Privacy Settings
The power is in your hands with safety features just a few clicks away! All social media sites, gaming platforms/consoles and streaming services provide filters and controls to put privacy and safety measures in your hands, you just need to know what to look out for… We have compiled some steps for how to set […]
