Attitudes around, gender, stereotyping and double standards on social media are complex and hard to change. This powerful video by a 13 year old girl is articulate, engaging and poses a great many questions that could be useful in supporting our own young people.
An interesting blog post on the subject of how, with today's technologies, we are more connected but also more alone.
A useful site that lists many of the most common socialmedia sites, with direct links to the areas to delete your account.
One person's experience of a posthumous tweeting service. Read the article here.
The e-Safety Policy is vitally important in school for a number of reasons, including:
To ensure there is a clear and consistent approach responding to incidents.
To ensure that every person responsible for the children is fully aware of his/her responsibilities.
To set boundaries of use (goalposts) of any school owned IT equipment, or personal IT equipment used in the school.
The following is a short "10 top tips" for creating your e-safety policy in school. There are many more, but these are some of the common ones that schools miss:
What is the connection between Social Networks and Being Lonely?
Inspired and Based on the wonderful book by Sherry Turkle - Alone Together.
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