Category: Digital safety
Articles for educators and families to support their responsible use of digital technologies to protect children’s privacy, wellbeing, and rights.
Communicating what you do to safeguard children
While recent events may have put child safeguarding under a more refined lens, families have always sought to understand how ECEC providers commit to keeping their children safe. Ideally high transparency means everyone in the community knows and models what they do to protect children, however this needs to be backed up by frequent and varied communication – it doesn’t...
Educator use agreements: How educators can take ownership of children’s digital safety
ECEC settings that practice and display a high-level of care around the digital safeguarding of children, often consider three core areas of management: Risk, technology (devices and software) and people. While each area has its own complexities and considerations, managing people can be significantly strengthened by bringing them on the journey as willing partners, rather than relying on top-down solutions...
From policy to practice: Working through children’s digital safety in ECEC
Wanting to provide practical resources for anyone on a children’s digital safety journey, Storypark’s pedagogical team has developed a free workbook to help you put children’s digital safety policies into practice: In a community-led approach to children’s digital safety everyone from administrators to IT professionals, educators and families are invited to bring their knowledge and experience to the table, creating...
What does a holistic, community-led approach to children’s digital safety look like?
Storypark has always had children’s digital safety at the heart, however like the vast majority of the ECEC sector, recent events in Australia have given us pause to deeply reflect and evaluate our contribution. Our discussions led us to a powerful guiding question: What does a holistic, community-led approach to children’s digital safety look like? This question emerged from reflection...