The coronavirus pandemic has illustrated how flexible the education industry now is when it comes to delivering curriculum. Teaching and learning are no longer confined to textbooks and classrooms. Today, teachers and students are always connected, whether they are on or off school grounds. Technology has played a major role in this disruptive change. One […]
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Originally published July 25, 2019 and updated November 16, 2020. The Canadian Centre for Child Protection (C3P) launched Project Arachnid in January 2017 as a response to the proliferation of child sexual abuse material witnessed by Cybertip.ca. Project Arachnid plays an important part in eliminating online child exploitation by detecting known images and videos of
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The UK Department for Education has created online safeguarding requirements that set the standard for child protection. These requirements are intended to ensure that schools provide the necessary online protections to complement their overall safeguarding strategy. There have been three new updates made to the guidance: Changes made to reflect the law (reflecting mandatory Relationship
How to Support Student’s Mental Health During Coronavirus Around the world, children are already back in school or are preparing to return soon. They’re facing many changes and challenges from their regular routine. Classroom settings and protective measures vary greatly from country to country. Here is a snapshot of what classrooms look like around the
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What are the Dangers of Social Media for Kids? The internet can be a great place, when explored safely. The abundance of information available at our fingertips can also be deceptive and dangerous without the proper guidance and filters in place. For example, students have access suicide tips, articles, details about suicide attempts, and self-harm videos from across the globe. Within an educational
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Suicide Prevention: 10 Risk Factors You Need to Know Suicide is the second leading cause of death among school age youth. In 2015, approximately 18% of 9th to 12th graders seriously considered suicide with 9% having tried one or more times. Being a teenager is stressful. The combination of everyday stresses such as school, deadlines, and relationships along with the additional burden
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Every business with employees using the internet faces the same issue: how to prevent internet abuse. Businesses are losing money by the minute because of unproductive employees visiting non–business related websites, web threats like malware and phishing penetrating their network, and legal liability issues. The common solution is to rely upon a UTM (unified threat management solution) which provides only basic
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Tips for Using onGuard for Protecting Students Online The pandemic and social distancing continues to be challenging and stressful for everyone, particularly for students. Students are among those most at risk of developing depression and committing suicide. Closures to schools, parks, recreational facilities, after school activities and more because of the pandemic have also increased their feelings of isolation and disrupted their lives. Although teachers and parents are
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