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Useful Resources for Adults who work with Young People

21 May 2015

The UK Safer Internet Centre have now produced and published three brand new checklists – for Twitter, Snapchat & Instagram, with the same style and format as their hugely popular Facebook checklist. (via Kent esafety)

Read more at Kent Esafety.

29 April 2015

Why are people so mean on the Internet? It's a question we have been trying to answer for more than a decade, but the matter seems to be reaching a cultural boiling point.

 

Read the New York Times article here

22 April 2015

David Brown’s slides (April 2015) are publically available and can be found via the link below. This resource is relevant to school leaders, teachers of computing and all adults, including non teaching staff, who work in a school.

17 April 2015

Disturbing, explicit and also moving and poignant 17 min film about teenagers, Facebook, trust and relationships.

Due to the graphic nature of some of the images it is unlikely this video would be appropriate to use in schools but will help adults who work with young people have a clearer understanding of the 'flitting attention span and lack of true connection in digital culture.'

Watch here.