Teachers should look through pupils’ mobile phones to delete sexual photos, a minister said yesterday.
Norman Baker, a Home Office minister, said young people had to be taught about the risks of sending intimate photographs of themselves by text, email or instant messaging – a practice known as ‘sexting’.
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Daily Mail
29 Jan 2014
You know their names. The "apps" that kids love to use and parents are warned to fear: Ask.fm, Vine, Kik and Snapchat make it to the top of the list for their reputations as harbingers of porn and cyberbullying.
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Huffington Post
29 Jan 2014
The government should consider preventing young teenagers from owning smartphones if they have been caught using them to share sexualised images of minors, a Conservative MP has said.
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BBC
28 Jan 2014
Professionals helping child victims of sexual abuse are not keeping pace with technological advances, academics say.
They warn that while perpetrators have become more ingenious in their use of technology to engage with vulnerable children, the training available to professionals has not kept up.
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BBC
28 Jan 2014
In the rush to blame websites for teenage suicides, we risk losing sight of the real causes of these deaths
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The Guardian
28 Jan 2014
Using iPads in the classroom with a curriculum that integrates IT and traditional subjects is helping pupils learn at one UK school
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The Guardian
28 Jan 2014
A new study of Facebook has predicted that the social network’s rapid growth will prove unsustainable and that the site will lose 80 per cent of its users between 2015 and 2017.
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The Independent
24 Jan 2014
Michael Gove told the British Educational Training and Technology conference the government's decentralised approach to information and communications technology (ICT) provision is equipping young people with the skills necessary to succeed in the modern world.
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Teaching Personnel
24 Jan 2014
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From adolescents using WhatsApp and Snapchat to babies swiping magazines as if they are iPads, young people have grown up with digital gadgets and are changing the world as they become early adopters or use technology in new ways.
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Financial Times
24 Jan 2014
A story of intrigue and deception in a fictitious social network, Dixi will be available exclusively across mobile, tablet and desktop platforms from 24 February, with 30 webisodes scheduled across three weeks.
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BBC
23 Jan 2014
“123456” is finally getting some time in the spotlight as the world's worst password, after spending years in the shadow of “password.”
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PC World
22 Jan 2014
A charity has warned that online pornography and cyber-bullying are damaging the mental health of young people.
A YoungMinds poll of 2,000 youngsters aged 11 to 25 revealed some startling findings about the state of mind of Britain's youth.
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Mirror
21 Jan 2014
Launched today by the UK Safer Internet Centre, the Safer Internet Day Quiz is a fun and interactive way for young people and their families to test their knowledge about online safety.
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UK Safer Internet Centre
21 Jan 2014
A legal lacuna has allowed a stalker who posted the name of his 15-year-old victim on Facebook to escape a conviction for breaching an anonymity order.
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Law Gazette
17 Jan 2014
More than a quarter of children own a handheld computer before they reach the age of eight, a report has revealed.
Millions of parents fear their children are ‘addicted’ to gadgets, and that their offspring ‘feel lost’ if they are not allowed to play with them, according to the research.
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Daily Mail
17 Jan 2014
Bitly is working with Symantec to clean up malicious links, the result of API keys left visible on the Web
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PC Advisor
16 Jan 2014
Anonib or Anonymous Image Bank shows pictures of girls as young as 15 from Cirencester and demeans them with comments such as “slut” and “bitch”.
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Stroud News and Journal
16 Jan 2014
Strategies of parental protection for children online
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Ofcom
15 Jan 2014
The Naace Strategic Conference 2014 takes places in Nottingham on 27-28 March and will see Naace celebrate its 30th anniversary. The conference is open to both Naace members and non-members and is suitable for teachers, school leaders, advisors and consultants working within and across all phases of UK education.
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Naace
15 Jan 2014
Pupils should be taught about the dangers of “sexting” and “cyberbullying” as part of updated sex education classes, David Cameron said yesterday.
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The Times
15 Jan 2014