Every week e-safety adviser Alan Mackenzie sends me weekly updates. They are useful teaching resources but also parent guides to keep you up to date with current trends.
Here are a few tips from this week’s updates:
For Parents – My Family’s Digital Toolkit
There are so many really good resources out there for parents/carers about how to help keeping children safe online, but it can quickly become really overwhelming.
Internet Matters has a really great resource for parents called My Family’s Digital Toolkit. This is a personalised resource which gives age-specific advice, advice to deal with specific concerns, recommendations for digital tools to support children’s interests and more.
The toolkit is free and you can find more details HERE.
Snapchat New Feature – Footsteps
Previously only available to Snapchat+ subscribers (the paid version of Snapchat), Footsteps is a feature that Snapchat is rolling out to all users over the coming weeks. Essentially it’s an extension of the Snap Maps feature which shows your location (unless you have Ghost Mode turned on), but this time it shows your travels as footsteps.
When Snap Maps first came out it raised huge safeguarding alarm bells as it was default on, it was only due to public outcry that Snapchat changed the setting to default off. My first reaction to Footsteps was the same, however it appears that Footsteps is only available to the user, not others.
You can read more about this new feature on TechCrunch HERE.
